LIM Connects: A Superhighway to Museum Learning Inside Your Classroom

FAIN: AH-274820-20

Long Island Museum of American Art, History, and Carriages (Stony Brook, NY 11790-1931)
Joshua Ruff (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2021)

Continued employment of museum educators to enhance and expand virtual learning opportunities for K-12 students.

The Long Island Museum seeks NEH support to extend its shared educational programming and unique learning opportunities through improved technology to schools unable to travel to the Museum this fall due to the continuing impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. Recognizing the amazingly unique place that art- and artifact-based inquiry has in igniting student's curiosity and interest, we are working to bring LIM's collections into classrooms remotely. This project includes the installation of critical technological improvements on-site in our historic buildings and galleries, in order to bring a full slate of unique learning opportunities to school districts of all sizes, student backgrounds, and income levels. The project keeps our talented group of educators employed and working through this new initiative. It will build new bridges to schools that will outlast the pandemic and diversify our offerings – both for regular on-site trips and for expanded distance learning – into the future.