Alice Austen House: Expanding Access to Public Programming in 2020

FAIN: GA-274046-20

Alice Austen House Museum (Staten Island, NY 10305-2002)
Victoria Munro (Project Director: May 2020 to present)

The retention of five staff members to implement a virtual tour and related resources.

Friends of Alice Austen House (AAH) requests support from NEH to support a project to make our permanent installation, contemporary art exhibitions, and education programs accessible to a virtual audience as New York City deals with the on-going novel coronavirus pandemic. In expectation of continued need for social distancing and limited access for tour groups and school trips, AAH will leverage the new permanent installation, New Eyes on Alice Austen, as well as the content in our contemporary galleries, to create an immersive online tour, digitize and make available supporting components of our collection, and develop a hard copy guide to the installation, to be used in-house and as part of off-site education programming.