Museum of the City of New York

The Museum of the City of New York will increase public access to and enhance the stewardship of its theatrical design renderings. The museum will process, digitize, and catalog approximately 8,000 original costume and set renderings from more than 410 New York City theatrical productions, and make them publicly available through its online collections portal. Creating online access to the previously unknown material will provide a user-friendly visual resource for the museum's own staff members, performing arts scholars, theater professionals, and theater enthusiasts across the nation, contributing to scholarship on the performing arts. The project will also create a free resource for theater educators working in elementary, middle, and high schools with the potential for informing performing arts curriculum at the grade school level.