Sursum! Digitizing Correspondence at the Elisabet Ney Museum

The Elisabet Ney Museum, the former studio home of German sculptor Elisabet Ney, is dedicated to showcasing Ney’s art and engaging the public through exhibitions and educational programs. My project involved curating and digitizing letters from the museum’s archives, generating and encoding metadata, and creating a digital archive and exhibits using Omeka; to support future digital projects, I also developed workflow materials. This project demonstrates the ways that small institutions can design digital projects with resources they already have, in addition to how open-source software and platforms can further a museum’s mission to bring stories to a wider audience.