Skyscraper Museum

Building Public Access Located in New York City, the Skyscraper Museum offers the public access to high-rise history via its award-winning Web site. The Museum will use funding to continue to expand the Web site offerings and digitize new accessions of important related collections. The specific project, VIVA 2: Come Alive! expands on the IMLS-supported VIVA project, a Visual Index to the Virtual Archive, which is currently posted on the museum's Web site. VIVA 2 will showcase historic photographs of three classical towers: the Empire State Building and the twin towers of the World Trade Center. Construction photos will be developed into a special Web site feature that integrates images into computer models of the structural systems of the buildings.