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Filmmaker’s Foundation Gift Supports Rockwell Museum’s Multi-Media Experiences

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A foundation connected to illustrious filmmaker George Lucas is donating $1.5 million to the Norman Rockwell Museum in Stockbridge.The three-year grant announced Thursday from the George Lucas Family Foundation will allow the museum to create multi-media experiences on site, online and for traveling exhibitions. The museum says a digital gallery tour will use virtual and augmented reality technologies, according to the museum’s manager of media services Jeremy Clowe.

“To be able to take people back in time to when these works were created and it’s just another layer to make it a much more rich experience,” said Clowe.

The museum also plans to create a new K thru 12 curriculum and an online media hub with podcasts, interviews and lectures.

The museum says Lucas, of Star Wars and Indiana Jones fame, is an avid collector of Rockwell’s artwork.

Jim is WAMC’s Associate News Director and hosts WAMC's flagship news programs: Midday Magazine, Northeast Report and Northeast Report Late Edition. Email: jlevulis@wamc.org
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