dba National Veterans Art Museum

The National Vietnam Veterans Art Museum will develop "Sound Off," a living oral history archive that uses innovative technology to place the learner at the center and engage audiences—especially veterans and their families as well as students—in the arts, history, and civics. The museum will develop and install an onsite recording booth where veterans can record oral histories of their time in service; develop a new mobile app to record and archive interviews with veterans unable to visit the museum in person; and create a curriculum for high school students to learn about art, history, and civics based on the museum's collection and these oral histories. "Sound Off" will combine the oral histories of America's veterans with the art in the museum's collection and create a dialogue that will be available to veterans, their friends and families, patrons of the art, and students of all ages.