By: Jace Dostal, Curator of Collections, Arizona History Museum Collections at the Arizona Historical Society Established by an Act of the First Territorial Legislature on November 7, 1864 (almost 50 years prior to Arizona becoming a state), the Arizona Historical...
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...
The E.L. Quarantelli Resource Collection (ELQ) at the Disaster Research Center (University of Delaware) holds hundreds of thousands of items, including unique historic research data and other disaster-related documents and publications. Disaster researchers and...
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...
