What the Eye Cannot See: Uncovering Secrets in Books, Letters, and Artifacts with MISHA

MISHA (Multispectral Imaging System for Historical Artifacts) is an open, low-cost, and portable imaging system developed at Rochester Institute of Technology to support research, preservation, and access across libraries, archives, museums, and cultural heritage collections. Through multispectral imaging, MISHA can reveal information not visible to the human eye, including faded texts, erased writings, underdrawings, material changes, and other hidden features of historical artifacts.

This presentation will introduce the MISHA project, demonstrate how multispectral imaging contributes to humanities research and collections stewardship, and share examples from collaborative projects in libraries, archives, museums, and universities in the United States and abroad.

MISHA was developed through the Cultural Heritage Imaging Lab at Rochester Institute of Technology and has been supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Cultural Heritage Imaging Lab is a collaboration between Museum Studies and Imaging Science and is co-directed by Juilee Decker, David W. Messinger, and Roger L. Easton, Jr.

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