The seminole tribe of florida's AH-TAH-THI-KI museum will complete a cataloging and rehousing project for 16,000 photographs in its collection to make them searchable and accessible to the seminole…

The Seminole Tribe of Florida's Ah-Tah-Thi-Ki Museum received a $188,123 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (CFDA 45.308) to catalog and rehouse 16,000 photographs from the museum's collection. The project will fund a cataloging assistant to work with the museum's collections manager to document the photographs in the collections management database, rehouse the photographs, and make them available through an online collections module. This effort will help preserve the culture and heritage of the Seminole Tribe by documenting contemporary Seminole life and making the visual records more accessible to the tribal community. The project is scheduled to be completed by June 30, 2027.

The seminole tribe of florida's AH-TAH-THI-KI museum will complete a cataloging and rehousing project for 16,000 photographs in its collection to make them searchable and accessible to the seminole community. This project will fund a cataloging assistant who, along with the collections manager, will catalog the photographs into the museum's collections management database, rehouse the photographs, shelve the newly housed and cataloged photographs, and add them to an online collections module. Once accessible, tribal community members will be engaged to help provide information about the photographs such as names, places, and events. By documenting contemporary seminole life and making IT more accessible, this project will help preserve the culture and heritage of the tribe.