Norman Rockwell Museum Unveils ProjectNORMAN

Norman Rockwell Museum Unveils ProjectNORMAN
The Norman Rockwell Museum announces today that it is the recipient of more than $1 million in competitive funding to preserve its rare and unique Norman Rockwell archival collection.

The collection contains more than 100,000 items from American illustrator Norman Rockwell's personal and public papers, art, and archives, and is one of the most comprehensive artist archives in the nation.

The Museum has received initial funding from several government and private foundation sources to initiate Phase II of what is projected to be a ten-year-project.

"ProjectNORMAN, as we fondly call this endeavor, has been recognized as a national model in archival and collections management," noted Laurie Norton Moffatt, Museum director.

"In addition to all the fascinating information it reveals about Norman Rockwell, the collection is a window into 20th-century-Ameri can visual culture, a trove of images, artifacts, and ideas, that provides for in-depth research into American popular culture and history."

The Museum's archival preservation project, named ProjectNORMAN, is a comprehensive cataloguing, computerization, digitization and publishing program.

In addition to preserving what is considered to be one of the nation's most significant art and archive collections, the Museum intends to make Rockwell's personal and public