In June of 2003, with the assistance of BC Arts Council and the BC Museum Association, the Doukhobor Village Museum embarked on its most ambitious digital project to that date. The Museum was able to digitize, restore, and develop an online site of its music holdings entitled The Digital Jukebox - a collection of (now) over 480 recordings for preview via the Internet. It was while developing this project, that the full potential of the autochromes came to light.

While the three boxes of autochromes within the museum's holdings were of course previously acknowledged, it seemed that until now, little could be done with them.

It had been reported that previous Museum personnel had toyed with trying to get the autochromes blown up photographically and printed, but until now, the art of digitally restoring images of this nature had been exclusive to larger, more metropolitan-type museums - primarily because of the costs involved, and the availability of those experienced in digital restoration.