CHICAGO (AP) — The Museum of Science and Industry in Chicago has received a grant to digitize thousands of its artifacts that'll make them free to public access.
Museum officials said the roughly $225,000 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will help build an online collections website with free public access to 7,000 of its more than 35,000 artifacts.
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The digital collections will include high-resolution 360-degree photographs. The two-year projects starts next month with help from Chicago Public Schools teachers.
“The Museum’s Collection is a hidden resource which documents an ongoing story of scientific and technological developments,” Kathleen McCarthy, director of collections, said in a statement. “These artifacts will be accessible globally, allowing us to better serve current and new audiences like never before in MSI’s 87-year history.”
The artifacts cover a wide range of items, from a treadmill for dogs used to power farm equipment to a WWII German U-505 submarine.