The George Eastman Museum was awarded a $500,417 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the digitization and online access of nearly 600 hours of audio and audiovisual recordings documenting interviews, lectures, and gallery discussions with significant photographers, actors, filmmakers, scholars, curators, and critics. The project will reformat the recordings, which currently require obsolete playback equipment, into open-source digital formats accessible through the museum's website. This will improve long-term preservation and allow free public access for researchers, historians, enthusiasts, and the general public worldwide. The grant will fund a temporary full-time project processing archivist to support the digitization activities, which are scheduled for completion by August 31, 2027.
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