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cspg
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Associated Press Smithsonian to put its 137 million-object collection online
The Smithsonian Institution will work to digitize its collections to make science, history and cultural artifacts accessible online and dramatically expand its outreach to schools, the museum complex's new chief said Monday.

Smithsonian officials do not know how long it will take or how much it will cost to digitize the full 137 million-object collection and will do it as money becomes available. A team will prioritize which artifacts are digitized first.

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The National Air and Space Museum is already well underway to cataloging its collection online.

The National Air and Space Museum Collections Database has entries for 16,000 out of its 39,000-object collection.

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