Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center

The Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center will create a publicly accessible digital database to more broadly share the life and legacy of boxing champion and global humanitarian Muhammad Ali. The museum's archive includes photographs, negatives, boxing contracts, fight posters and print materials, personal documents, film and video tapes, and physical artifacts. A part-time digital imaging specialist will work with the collections staff and a technology company to migrate 7,000 newly digitized documents to a new collections management system. The project team will design a public-facing database, ensuring that metadata is prepared for optimal searchability. The project will enable immediate access to information that was previously only available by visiting the museum in Ali's hometown of Louisville, Kentucky.