In response to the growing demand of the public for digital access to these collections (especially teachers and students), the first campus-wide Virtual Museum (UHVM) is being initiated through the shared application of a leading museum management software (KE EMu). A Digital Imaging Center is also being developed and currently available for student use.

This new initiative will provide local, national, and international educators and learners with a digital tool specifically designed to develop or use humanities resources. An interactive online environment will offer a compilation of teaching resources (text, images, video and multimedia) currently held by one of Hawai'i's premier institutions. The Virtual Museum project is currently being developed by the Museum Studies Program, American Studies Department.

The Virtual Museum will allow scholars, educators, students, and the American public to have ready and easy access to explore thousands of records and nationally significant objects from collections (including art works and historic photographs).

Descriptive catalogs that provide detailed information about humanities materials and natural history specimens will be available on individual collection objects. The rationale behind the Virtual Museum is to unify campus humanities collections that are currently isolated in departmental units and allow visitors to experience their rich diversity and overlapping subject and geographic areas of interest.