Museum of African American History

The Museum of African American History will digitize the museum's Civil War Collection, emphasizing objects that will be featured in the upcoming Freedom Rising: The Emancipation Proclamation and the Role of the Black Soldier in the Civil War exhibit. Project objectives include ensuring the long-term preservation of the collection, providing online accessibility to an expanded audience, enhancing the ability to search the collection using metadata, and offering more technologically advanced products to improve museum educational programs. The museum will implement a student internship program, script a performance by actor Charles Dutton promoting the exhibit, and produce a multi-media educational program based on the works of Frederick Douglass.