Lower East Side Tenement Museum

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum will scale up its experimental "Your Story, Our Stories" website into a national program that asks visitors to upload images of, and extended captions for, objects that reveal elements of their personal and family immigration narratives. Immigration scholars and museum curators from across several partner sites will engage in online conversation with website visitors, offering multiple academic perspectives on immigration as a contemporary and historical phenomenon. The museum will integrate a new content management system into its existing website, incorporate a crowd-sourced mapping function and a digital repository, collect new stories at partner sites, and create dynamic programming that draws upon the growing website content. The project will help museums better understand how they can present and interpret authentic narratives to further the national conversation on immigration.