Grand Rapids Public Museum

The Grand Rapids Public Museum-through its Magic Lantern Preservation and Access Project-will conserve and properly house approximately 5,000 historical images on glass slides and make them freely available and easily accessible on the museum's website. These rare and fragile images were created in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century and depict both local and international scenes. Their long-term preservation will make it possible for broad audiences-ranging from K-12 educators to the local historical community to researchers and audiences around the world-to access the historically significant images for multiple purposes.