The Lost Museum
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Title
The Lost Museum
Project Item Type Metadata
Title
The Lost Museum
Description
A re-creation of PT Barnum’s American Museum as a lens into mid-19th century New York City and antebellum America. The Lost Museum website offers visitors a visualization and spacial interpretation of this extraordinary institution as well as an innovative way to learn and teach about the many issues and events of the period. This project grew from a proposal for a CD-ROM project called Landscapes in Time that aimed to provide a dense portrait of a particular time and single place as a complement to the Who Built America? CD-ROM
Start Date
1996
End Date
2004
Director(s)
Andrea Ades Vasquez
Programmers
Andre Pitanga
Joshua Harvey
Burç Acar
Christopher Terry
Elena Razlogova
Gene Yu
Michael Laine
Content Experts
Bluford Adams
Elizabeth Blackmar
Stephen Brier
Peter G. Buckley
James (Jay) Cook
Ann Fabian
Neil Harris
Kevin Kenny
Michael O'Malley
Benjamin Reiss
Affiliates
Pennee Bender
Ellen Noonan
Joshua Brown
Lee Ann Pomplas
Brian C. Muller
Cortlan McManus
Fernando Azevedo
Cristina Yunzal
Lilliana Halim
Steve Prince
Janine Giordano
Julie Joslyn
Leo Ciesa
Pat Muchmore
Peter Buckley
David Carson
Markeisha Ensley
Carol Greski
Sam Hurlbut
Frank Poje
Isa Vásquez
Madelyn Kent
Project URL
Funder
National Endowment for the Humanities
Partners
American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning
Awards
2000 New York Metropolitan Archivists Roundtable Prize for "the most innovative application of archives to the Internet."
April 2005 The Lost Museum was the recipient of an Honorable Mention Award for excellence in interactive media production in the Horizon Interactive Awards competition.
April 2005 The Lost Museum won the Platinum Award for Interactive-Educational New Media at the 38th annual WorldFest Film Festival. Worldfest, one of the oldest competitive international media Festivals, was held in Houston, Texas.
In 2005 The Lost Museum was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment Citation.
In 2006 The Lost Museum received the Center for Digital Education Digital Education Achievement Award.
Files
Collection
Citation
“The Lost Museum,” RRCHNM20, accessed October 15, 2024, https://20.rrchnm.org/items/show/258.
Item Relations
| This Item | foaf:fundedBy | Item: National Endowment for the Humanities |
| This Item | Partner | Item: American Social History Project / Center for Media and Learning |
| This Item | Staff | Item: Roy Rosenzweig |
| This Item | Staff | Item: Elena Razlogova |