Norman Rockwell Museum

Norman Rockwell Museum will inventory, catalogue, rehouse, and digitize its collection of 50,000 Rockwell-related photographic prints to make them accessible for the first time to museum curators, visiting researchers, and the public. With the potential to provide insight into the artist’s working process, personal life, and the times in which he lived, the collection includes candid shots of the artist interacting with John Wayne, Ann-Margret, Presidents Eisenhower and Kennedy, and many other 20th-century icons who were subjects of his work. After processing and digitizing, the project team will develop a finding aid and will upload the image files to the museum’s Vernon Collections Management System and to Archivists’ Toolkit. The images will be published online and made accessible through computer workstations in the museum’s Reference Center as well as on the website.