University of Alaska Fairbanks (University of Alaska Museum)

Building Public Access At the University of Alaska Museum, this grant will fund A Sense of Alaska. This project will include the formation of a Community Advisory Team to address, discuss, and evaluate audience needs and the responsibilities museum interpretation has to undeserved clients, thereby assisting the Museum staff in analyzing cultural products and history, identifying local resources, and collecting multimedia to supplement museum object interpretation. A Sense of Alaska will then expand the museum's Interpretive Learning Suite, a computer based program that presents layered interpretation of museum objects through multimedia. The Program's goal is that the Suite be expanded from the current 33 to at least 200 museum artworks, and from the current 300 to at least 700 supplementary materials (text, historical photograph, film footage, audio interview and natural sound recordings).