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Noteworthy events, projects, awards, research, and acquisitions
Great Chicago Stories: A Virtual Field Trip Through History
May, 2008: The Chicago History Museum is proud to present its award winning website, Great Chicago Stories, an interactive tool containing powerful historical fiction narratives for use by elementary and high school students, teachers, and families to encourage students to critically engage with history and enhance their classroom curriculum.
Great Chicago Stories has been honored with three prestigious awards this year:
- The 2008 Gold MUSE Award for Teaching and Outreach from the American Association of Museums Media & Technology Committee
- The 2008 Award for Excellence in Published Resources for Students and Teachers, form the American Association of Museums Committee on Education
- The 2008 Best of the Web (Education) Award, from Museums and the Web, the annual conference sponsored by Archives and Museum Informatics
> Visit the website at www.greatchicagostories.com
> Download the full press release
Hedrich Blessing Photograph Digitization Project
March, 2008: The Museum is working on a very exciting project to scan, digitize, and catalog 15,000 of the 250,000 Hedrich Blessing photographs in the Museum’s collection. The work will extend over the next three years; the project will help preserve the collection and make these significant photographs available for public access.
The Hedrich Blessing photograph collection documents the work of one of the finest and most widely recognized architectural photography firms in the world. One of the Museum’s prized holdings, the collection contains architectural photographs from A Century of Progress International Exposition, 1933–34; Bertrand Goldberg; Holabird and Roche; Burnham and Root; Anderson, Probst and White; and more. Over 14 different collections will be digitized for this project.
The Museum has a full-time Imaging Technician dedicated to the project, restoring and cataloging anywhere from 20 to 25 images per day. Currently, the Museum has completed the digitization of 2,200 Ludwig Mies van der Rohe images, 225 Frank Lloyd Wright images, and 230 images from the 1933–34 Century of Progress. At this point many of the Mies photographs are available through the Research Center and online, through the Museum’s online Research Catalog, ARCHIE.
> Download the press release for more info
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Museum in the News
Media coverage of Chicago History Museum programs, resources, and people
05/11/2008 | Flashback: 1933 World's Fair
03/31/2008 | State Street transformed (requires Flash player)
03/26/2008 | Museums exhibit high-tech appeal
03/07/2008 | '68 FILM AT MUSEUM: Chicago nuns' gentle question captures portrait of an era
03/07/2008 | Exhibit explores how Catholics helped shape Chicago
03/06/2008 | Guidebook to Chicagoland for people with disabilities
03/06/2008 | Museum spotlights Catholic history in Chicago
03/02/2008 | Is 21st century city keeping the faith?
02/11/2008 | Motorola Celebrates Lessons from Abraham Lincoln's Life with Dedicated Grant Program
02/06/2008 | Panel: Gentrification challenges public housing residents' sense of community
01/31/2008 | Out at CHM: Sexual Politics
01/23/2008 | The Legacy of Martin Luther King, Jr.
12/21/2007 | DJ Spooky's latest spin? A visual poem to Chicago
12/21/2007 | Affordable reproductions available at the Museum
12/13/2007 | The Museum acquires Black Sox documents
12/04/2007 | Chicago at 40: The Band and its City installation commemorates the group's anniversary
11/08/2007 | Chicago Under Glass features Chicago Daily News photos from the Museum's collection
09/18/2007 | The Museum acquires sketches from Chicago 7 trial