Museum of History and Industry

The Museum of History & Industry (MOHAI) will create high-quality digital images with metadata tags for 5,287 artifacts, archival materials, photographs, and oral histories relating to the diverse history of the Seattle and Puget Sound region. Images will be searchable by the public and staff through the museum's online collections management system and through a shared regional online repository hosted by the University of Washington. The project will increase MOHAI's digital assets by more than 70 percent, providing immediate improvements to staff workflow, institutional collections management, and public accessibility. The project also will also increase the museum's capacity to carry out future digitization efforts by providing necessary equipment, establishing new systems to digitize materials in a cost- and time-efficient manner, and training additional volunteers.