Virginia Museum of Fine Arts

The Virginia Museum of Fine Arts will fully catalogue, digitize, and disseminate its extensive collection of prints and drawings. The museum will hire an assistant photographer and registration assistant to create high resolution digital images of 6,509 works on paper, verify and update catalogue data on all 6,864 works on paper in the museum's collection database, populate image metadata fields, and generate derivative image files for use on the museum's website and in-gallery devices. Representing nearly 30 percent of the museum's total holdings, the works on paper collection has particular strengths in European, Modern and Contemporary, American, and South Asian art. This project will enhance the in-gallery experience for onsite visitors, introduce collections to audiences far beyond the region, and make an important component of the museum's permanent collection widely accessible while preserving fragile objects for future generations.