Carnegie Institute (Carnegie Museum of Natural History)

The Carnegie Museum of Natural History (CMNH) will migrate two of its priority collections—anthropology and malacology—to a new, robust collections management system. The proposed upgrade to will support the efforts of scientists internally and externally to use the collections for research across a wide range of contemporary topics. CMNH also plans to use existing high-resolution digital images from the anthropology collections in ways that its current database management software cannot support. Interactive kiosks and a cross-gallery cell phone tour using digital images and information from the collection databases will enrich the visitor’s experience of the anthropology halls and life science exhibitions. Evaluation of visitors’ use of these new platforms will inform potential replication of interactives using other portions of the museum’s collections