Τhe CyArk 500 Challenge

The CyArk 500 Challenge is the 3D scanning and digital preservation of 500 world heritage sites within a period of 5 years. On October 21st at the Tower of London, CyArk formally launched the CyArk 500 Challenge.
Heritage sites are a significant part of our collective memory and we are losing them at an alarming rate.



3D laser scanning and other advanced technologies are available today and allow us to preserve and experience these incredible places in a way previously impossible. Now is the time for us to take advantage of these technologies and the change they enable to save these priceless treasures.
CyArk has already completed 40 projects toward its goal of 500. These sites, called the Exemplar Projects, include Pompeii, Babylon, Mt. Rushmore, the Leaning Tower of Pisa, the Titanic, the Sydney Opera House and, most recently, the Tower of London.
Future projects comprising the CyArk 500 will be evaluated for inclusion by the CyArk Advisory Council, chaired by Gustavo Araoz, president of the International Council of Monuments and Sites.




Through the CyArk 500, we can achieve an order of magnitude improvement in the way we document, preserve, experience and archive our cultural heritage by bridging and integrating islands of automation in 3D and other digital technologies. CyArk achieves this order of magnitude improvement through a process we call Digital Preservation.