I was visiting with a museum colleague who had recently moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico from the Midwest. He said he was thrown by the environmental conditions that he now must deal with managing collections in an arid environment. He said that his training on museum...
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...
Textile and preventive conservation often go hand-in-hand, as preventive considerations are essential in ensuring the safe display, mounting, and storage of textiles. Because textiles are ubiquitous in personal collections (go look in your closet for your favorite...
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...
