Atlanta History Center

The Atlanta History Center will inventory and digitize 4,000 museum artifacts from its collection, which it will share along with expanded metadata on its online digital portal. The museum will then select 1,000 artifacts that document the historical themes and topics most often requested by K-12 educators to create twenty new lesson plans and educational activities that align with state standards. The project will support the hiring of several temporary positions to undertake project activities including a full-time project registrar, a part-time outreach programs assistant, and two part-time inventory assistants. The project will result in free resources for educators to use to advance student’s knowledge of Georgia’s history. The museum will benefit from enhanced physical and intellectual control of its collections, and both researchers and the public will benefit from free access to the artifact records online.