This part two in a series on digitization. My name is Allison Hale, Digital Imaging Specialist at Cooper Hewitt. I started working at the museum in 2014 during the preparations for a mass digitization project. Before the start of digitization, there were…

This is my first post in a four-part series about digitization. My name is Allison Hale, Digital Imaging Specialist at Cooper Hewitt. I started working at the museum in 2014 during the preparations for a mass digitization project. Before the start of…

There’s a new organizational function on cooperhewitt.org that we’re calling “channels.” Channels are a filtering system for WordPress posts that allow us to group content in a blog-style format around themes. Our first iteration of this feature groups posts…

If you’ve taken a look at Cooper Hewitt’s website in the past few months, you may have noticed some subtle changes to our main navigation. Until recently, all visitors to the main museum site saw exactly the same options in the main navigation. Anyone could…

To date, Cooper Hewitt has published several groupings of exhibition-related content in the channels editorial web format. You can read about the development of channels in my earlier post on the topic. This article will focus…

Large-print labels are live!

Launching alongside the long-awaited Jazz Age exhibition, the exciting new large-print label feature on our…

There is a goldmine of digital materials in Cooper Hewitt’s permanent collection — rarities like prototypes donated by interaction design pioneer Bill Moggridge; gaming classics like the Game Time wristwatch (which you should really…