The Lost Museum Cited for Digital Education Achievement
The Center for Digital Education announced the winners of its annual Digital Education Achievement Awards in late September and ASHP/CML’s website The Lost Museum: Exploring Antebellum U.S. Life and Culture garnered the top prize in the 2006 competition in the “Teacher-focused” category. The website, which combines 3-D techniques with a rich archive of primary documents to re-create P. T. Barnum’s American Museum and explore mid-nineteenth century American history, has attracted almost 100,000 visitors in 2006 alone, a number that almost rivals the original institution’s appeal. The DEA Award is the most recent recognition of The Lost Museum’s innovative approach to online history education; the website previously was cited as an exemplary EDSITEment resource by the National Endowment for the Humanities, and received the 2005 Worldfest Houston Platinum Award in Interactive-Educational Media and an Horizon Interactive Honorable Mention Award.