Almost 40 thousand frames depicting monuments of industrial architecture, historical city maps, and vintage items of technology and industry, among other things, make up a collection of negatives currently undergoing digitisation at the WUST’s Centre for Scientific and Technical Information and Knowledge

Apart from collections of 35 mm and 6x6 cm films, also very old and valuable glass negatives are being digitalised, as well as the documentation that comes with them. All of the materials are part of the collections in possession of the Faculty of Architecture of Wrocław University of Science and Technology.

The collection, amounting to a total of about 39 thousand frames and 35 descriptions, is a result of research and students’ internships supervised by our university’s employees. The photographic documentation includes monuments of industrial architecture, vintage items of technology and industry, historic buildings, research in the area of architecture, historic city maps, inventory measurements, and iconography reproductions.

When the project has been completed, the collections will be handed over to the Lower Silesian Digital Library. 

Entitled “The Digitisation of the Photographic Documentation in the Areas of the History of Architecture, the History of Art, Cartography, and the History of Technology Belonging to the Collections of Wrocław University of Science and Technology”, the project financed by the Minister of Science and Higher Education, with resources funnelled to the activity disseminating science, is going to finish in October 2017.