Maciej Pawlikowski
Head of Cambridge Heritage Imagining Laboratory (CHIL)
Directorate: Digital Initiatives
Department: Cambridge Heritage Imaging Laboratory
Maciej Pawlikowski is the Head of Cultural Heritage Imaging Laboratory at Cambridge University Library. Responsible for providing visual data content to the library readers and for digitisation projects. Contributor to standards for archival imaging specialising in advanced and scientific imaging of cultural heritage artefacts. He is also a Co-investigator of The Small Performances AHRC funded project (2024-2027). Over the years, he has developed and designed equipment, protocols, and techniques to accommodate specialised imaging of cultural heritage artefacts taking it beyond standard photography based on the fact that cameras can show more than humans can see.
Maciej imaging Charles Darwin's microscope for the Whipple Museum © Cambridge University Library
Maciej imaging Charles Darwin's microscope for the Whipple Museum © Cambridge University Library
Affiliated organisations
Professional memberships
Recent publications
Maciej Pawlikowski, Vanessa R. de Obaldía (2024) Athos’ Endangered Archives: The Preservation of Simonopetra’s Ottoman Collection through Digitisation and Cataloguing, Documentation of Ecclesiastical Cultural Heritage 147-154.
Maciej Pawlikowski (2023), The Role of Photographer in the Inspection and Analysis of Cultural Heritage Artifacts Using Non-Invasive Photographic Methods, Between East and West, 1st edition. August 2023, 247-258 https://doi.org/10.14220/9783737015981.247.
Associated research projects
Hidden in Plain Sight:
Historical And Scientific Analysis Of Premodern Sacred Books
The project employs a range of innovative technologies to explore how ancient books were used, modified and venerated.
"Small performances": investigating the typographic punches of John Baskerville (1707-75) through heritage science and practice-based research
An interdisciplinary project that will make a substantial contribution to the history of printing technology, whilst ensuring it is a living process that will continue into the future.
Cambridge Merlin Fragment
Exploring how digital imaging and non-destructive analytical techniques can be used to make Cambridge University Library’s re-discovered fragment of the Medieval French Suite Vulgate of Merlin more accessible.
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Photography:
Headline image © Alice the Camera / Cambridge University Library
Collection items featured:
Baskerville punches by Maciej Pawlikowski.
Great Bible, Paris/London 1538/9, St John's College Cambridge, undergoing XRF analysis at the Hamilton Kerr Institute, University of Cambridge. By permission of the Master and Fellows of St John’s College, Cambridge.
Image for Merlin Fragment project, GBR/0012/MS Vanneck Box 5.