Creating Discoveries

Digitizing, enriching, and enabling: discover the virtually limitless possibilities for special collections, archives, and specimens. Picturae designs and provides the best solutions and services for valuable, vulnerable heritage.

The Digitization Journey

Picturae offers solutions exclusively for cultural heritage and natural history collections and can use our 25 years worth of experience to design a custom solution for your institution.

Bigger audiences await the information in your physical collection, and Picturae can connect physical to digital to make this possible. By providing a holistic digitization journey, Picturae transforms a physical collection into a fully digital, searchable, and accessible tool.

That is a future worth planning for, and Picturae is here to help you get there.

Driven to Create

Preparing History for the Future

At Picturae, we combine dedication to cultural heritage with a passion for technology. We may design state-of-the-art digitization systems, but our true strength lies in mechanical ingenuity. We thrive in creative, inventive customization. An Engineer who orders their own circuit board because they want to continue working on a solution at home – that is Picturae. Inventive, hands-on, and enthusiastic.

VP of US Sales

Lilli Cooper

Lilli represents all US based clients, both cultural heritage and biodiversity. She is based in Washington DC, and works closely with the US Studio Team in Jersey City, NJ and all on-site project locations.

Head of Sales Digi

Martijn Roelofs

Martijn is responsible for international cultural heritage digitization clients. From all projects at our headquarters in Heerhugowaard, NL, where he is based, to on-site projects in Europe and beyond.

Senior Project Manager Biodiversity

Victor Shields

Victor is responsible for our global digitization efforts in the area of Biodiversity. You’ll find him managing our Herbarium and other Biodiversity initiatives.

Here to Help

Meet Our Team

Our international team of digitization professionals is ready to make your digitization goals a reality. With offices in the Netherlands and the United States, our passionate team is ready to serve you, no matter where your collection is on a map.

Our Story

Picturae's History

Boasting over 25 years of experience, we plan and manage our clients’ digitization initiatives from beginning to end, including consulting, concept development, imaging, transcription, post-processing, back-up, and delivery.

1997

Picturae was founded in 1997 by Onno Zaman. He built Picturae with a great entrepreneurial heart.

2012

Naturalis inspires the Herbarium Conveyor, capturing nearly 5 million herbarium sheets in less than 10 months.

2016

The RKD collaborates with Picturae to develop the double sided reflective conveyor.

2017

Picturae Inc opens a permanent US Studio based in Jersey City, NJ in response to growing demand.

2022

Berlin's Museum für Naturkunde pilots Entomology Conveyor.

2023

Picturae splits with its IT division, now Memorix Vitec, to focus on the heart of our offering; digitization.

2024

Picturae announces the creation of the Biodiversity unit to expand our existing and future solutions for Natural History.

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