Allentown Art Museum

Building Public Access The Allentown Art Museum and nearby Kutztown University will build and disseminate an electronic catalogue of 750 works of art in the museum's collection. This funding will help realize the shared goal of using technology to afford public access to the collection. The team will select works of art that represent a cross-section of the museum's collection strengths and digitize the images. Each image will be catalogued extensively in 35 data fields that adhere to strict vocabulary standards. Once completed, the catalogue will be made available to classrooms and the general public via imaging software. The University will then offer two graduate courses to develop a curriculum based on the catalogue. After careful evaluation, the team will promote the use of an online user's manual and the catalogue in classrooms across Pennsylvania.