Mission Houses Museum

The Mission Houses Museum will use its IMLS award to computerize and digitize its 19th-century museum and library holdings and make them more readily available and accessible to a wider audience over the Internet. The museum’s collections, including three historic structures, more than 3,000 artifacts, and 12,000 books and archival materials, offer significant primary source material to interpret the important period (1820–60) in Hawaii’s history when New England missionaries came to the Hawaiian Islands. The project will include digitization of photos, journals, and newspapers; Web site expansion; and catalog entries complemented by oral histories.