McKissick Museums, Univ. of South Carolina

Building Public Access The McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina will develop a delivery system that will make the museum's diverse collections on southern and South Carolina folk life and material culture available to a broader audience. Internet based, this project will integrate the museum's extensive holdings of artifacts, oral histories, early and contemporary musical recordings, film, and documents into an organized system. In addition, it will provide support for a Web site that allows for in-depth examination of selected topics. This project will make one of the strongest collections of materials and objects on southern traditional arts and culture available to a national and international audience via the Web. The Museum will produce one of the first interactive Web sites that will provide a new audience with access to regional culture.