The Digital Museum is situated in the John S. Bailey Library and was completed in January 2020. Visitors have the opportunity to explore the history of AUG and significant moments from the history of Greece, Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, and the U.S.A. throughout the 20th century.
The Museum is equipped with a wide range of innovative technologies (a curved screen, monitors and ipads, touch screens), workstations for research, a display case for old artifacts and archival material and a small area for temporary exhibitions. The scope of the Museum is to become a laboratory for historical and creative projects in which past and present digital and analog exhibits will "merge" and share the history and spirit of the institution with diverse audiences through a unique experience.
Education unites, transforms, liberates, protects
Throughout history women continuously find openings for action, engagement, and education... Maria A. West embodies a period of time when mission work was about transforming lives without respect to position in society. It took great courage, strength, purpose and curiosity about the world... The goal was not to change culture, but to advance possibilities and skills and develop "a useful life." Today, the ethos of service brought by missionaries is still evident at AUG.
-- Dr. S. Sue Horner, Scholar in Residence, 2008-2020
