Transforming Audience Engagement and Reach through Digital Programs

FAIN: PB-275150-20

George Eastman Museum (Rochester, NY 14607-2219)
Kate Meyers Emery (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2021)

Retention of 19 full time employees to sustain, expand, and institutionalize the museum’s digital programs. The project will digitize and create online access to films, webinars, artist’s talks, online videos, and virtual tours of the Eastman Museum and collections. Audio tours and podcasts for the mansion, garden, and exhibitions will also be produced.

The George Eastman Museum will implement the project “Transforming Audience Engagement and Reach through Digital Programs.” Grant funding will help the museum to retain 19 full time employees directly involved in the project. The project will sustain, expand, and institutionalize the museum’s digital programs to engage a larger and broader audience online and to facilitate social distancing within the museum. The project will result in creation and online access to digitized films, webinars, artist’s talks, online videos, and dynamic virtual 3D tours of the historic mansion and gardens and photography exhibitions, and live streaming of newly released films via the Virtual Dryden Theatre. Audio tours and podcasts for the mansion and gardens and photography exhibitions will also be produced.