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September 2000 |
| ASHP/CML'S LOST MUSEUM WINS ARCHIVISTS ROUND TABLE AWARD
The Archivists Round Table of Metropolitan New York has just announced that the Center for Media and Learning/American Social History Project's Web site, The Lost Museum, will be the recipient of its 2000 Award for Innovative Use of Archives. The Round Table award "recognizes an individual or organization for use of archival material in a meaningful and creative way, making a significant contribution to a community or body of people, and demonstrating the relevance of archival materials to its subject." The award will be presented at a ceremony on Wednesday, October 11th, at the Center for Jewish History, as part of the Round Table's 12th Annual New York Archives Week. |
July 2000 |
| THE LOST MUSEUM DEBUTS ON THE WEB New York Times Reports on New ASHP/CML Digital Project The Lost Museum, an innovative digital project produced by the American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning, debuted on the World Wide Web on the first day of July 2000. This prototype project, composed of a 3D exploration of a digitally-reconstructed room in P. T. Barnum's celebrated and notorious American Museum as well as an Archive of primary sources, was produced with the help of a National Endowment for the Humanities development grant. The Web site's opening was accompanied by a major article in the New York Times, which delineated some of the site's most striking features and our goal of using the unique spatial and hypertext aspects of the Web to convey to the general public and students an adventurous and complex understanding of the U.S. past. Take a step back in time and visit The Lost Museum today! |