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CREDITS
American Social History Project/Center for Media and Learning
The Graduate Center, City University of New York
in collaboration with
Center for History and New Media
George Mason University

Over the course of eight years (1996-2004), the following people participated in varying degrees in the conception and construction of The Lost Museum. This extremely collaborative process included historians, artists, programmers, writers, researchers, and animators – from undergraduate and graduate level interns to professors and professionals. All production work occurred in the facilities of the New Media Lab at the CUNY Graduate Center. While the list of credits indicates specific responsibilities, this project is based on the sharing of tasks and merging of talents.

Andrea Ades Vásquez, Joshua Brown, Roy Rosenzweig - Executive Producers
Andrea Ades Vásquez - Project Director/Art Director
Pennee Bender - Producer
Ellen Noonan, Joshua Brown - Writers

Lee Ann Pomplas - 3-D Animator, Picture Gallery and Waxworks Room
Brian C. Muller - 3-D Animator, Lecture Room
Cortlan McManus - 3-D Animator, Barnum’s Office
Fernando Azevedo, Cristina Yunzal, Liliana Halim - Additional 3-D Animation

Andre Pitanga - Head Programmer
Joshua Harvey - Notebook Programmer
Burç Acar, Christopher Terry - Additional Programming
Elena Razlogova, Gene Yu, Michael Laine - Database Programmers

Steve Prince - Additional Writing
Janine Giordano - Research

ICONOCLAST (Julie Joslyn, Leo Ciesa) - Music
Pat Muchmore - Sound Effects
Peter Buckley, David Carson, Markeisha Ensley, Carol Greski, Sam Hurlbut, Frank Poje, and Isa Vásquez- Voiceover Actors

Special thanks to Madelyn Kent, curator of The Old York Library, for her archival discoveries.

Advisors:
Bluford Adams, Department of English, University of Iowa
Elizabeth Blackmar, Department of History, Columbia University
Stephen Brier, The Graduate Center, City University of New York
Peter G. Buckley, Department of History, The Cooper Union
James (Jay) Cook, Department of History, University of Michigan
Ann Fabian, American Studies and History, Rutgers University
Neil Harris, Department of History, University of Chicago
Kevin Kenny, Department of History, Boston College
Michael O'Malley, Department of History, George Mason University
Benjamin Reiss, Department of English, Tulane University

SPONSORS
National Endowment for the Humanities
The Old York Foundation

AWARDS

In 2006 The Lost Museum received the Center for Digital Education Digital Education Achievement Award.

In 2005 The Lost Museum was a recipient of the National Endowment for the Humanities EDSITEment Citation.

In April 2005 The Lost Museum won the Platinum Award for Interactive-Educational New Media at the 38th annual WorldFest Film Festival. Worldfest, one of the oldest competitive international media Festivals, was held in Houston, Texas.

In April 2005 The Lost Museum was the recipient of an Honorable Mention Award for excellence in interactive media production in the Horizon Interactive Awards competition.

In 2000 The Lost Museum won the 2000 New York Metropolitan Archivists Roundtable Prize for "the most innovative application of archives to the Internet."

PUBLICITY
September-October 2005 Review in "Higher Learaning: Technology Serving Education":
"The Lost Museum"
"Beware: if you visit The Lost Museum, a Web site developed by the New Media Lab (NML) at the Graduate Center of the City University of New York (CUNY), you may never return. Just as one can spend an entire afternoon in a regular, brick- and- mortar museum, the NML’s virtual take on P.T. Barnum’s 19th century American Museum, once found in Lower Manhattan, might cause a visitor to lose track of time, online.
The Lost Museum, constructed by CUNY’s Graduate Center students, is a fascinating, interactive 3-D look at what was once the United States’ most visited museum – until it mysteriously burned to the ground in 1865. Visitors can explore the virtual reconstruction and embedded resources, which can be used with classroom lessons, along with clues to the mystery of who set the fire.
Educators, students and history enthusiasts alike can access a rich archive of historical documents and present-day scholarships that delineate the marvels and scandals surrounding Barnum and his museum, as well as the social, political and cultural history of the mid-nineteenth century city. Learn about tiny Tom Thumb, the Feejee mermaid, the Circassian Woman and many other wonders – and hoaxes.
Not only is this an informative, educational Web site, but the rich images, graphics and animation make you feel as though you’re a 19th century patron, visiting the American Museum in person."

October 2005 Review in Common-Place, an online history journal, by Thomas Augst, Volume 6, No. 1 "Finding Barnum on the Internet: An antebellum museum in cyberspace"

July 1, 2000 A Museum to Visit from an Armchair, New York Times, Tina Kelley

July/August 1999 AAA World, Magazine of the Automobile Association of America , The Lost Museum, Kate Muhl

September 1999 CBS Sunday Morning Show

CONTACT US: avasquez1@gc.cuny.edu

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