By Kylin Cummings, Director of Collections Thanksgiving Point was established in 1995 as a gift from Alan Ashton to his wife Karen to show gratitude for the community and the natural world. It has five discovery venues including the Mountain America Museum of Ancient...
The Evansville African American Museum is located in Evansville, Indiana, and is situated in the historical Baptisttown district. The museum is classified as small, with three full-time and three part-time staff members. The museum was conceptualized in 2007 and is...
At Conserv, we care about collections AND the people who care for collections. We talked to Toni back in May 2022 on disaster preparedness at The National World War II Museum in New Orleans and wanted to learn more about her and how she uses Conserv as the Director...
Collections storage at McKissick Museum at the University of South Carolina is fraught with challenges because the building was not purpose built – a challenge that many museums deal with. Our issue is that the building was originally constructed as a library in 1940...
The Arizona Museum of Natural History (AzMNH) Anthropology Department was excited to be chosen for the Conserv Preservation Award to re-house several ethnographic textiles in 2023. Award funding was used to purchase archival quality materials to roll the textiles...
An effective environmental monitoring program is about more than measuring the environment. There are many challenges that need to be overcome to properly protect a collection: Staff may not be available for full-time monitoring Storage locations may be many and far...
