Congratulations goes out to Yale University's Peabody Museum of Natural History for receiving a $145,299 grant from the Institute for Museum and Library Services (IMLS) in the 'Provision of Optimum Environment' category.
Dr. Roger Colten, Collections Manager, Anthropology, will be in charge of the project which will improve care, preservation, and
access for 8,000 Oceanic and Asian ethnographic objects by cleaning,
conserving, and moving them to new museum cabinets and shelves in an
environmentally controlled storage facility. These objects include
weapons, tapa, headdresses, jewelry and other body ornaments, clothing,
musical instruments, sculptures, and utilitarian objects such as bowls,
spoons, and lime containers. The collections have great research
potential as a source of information for anthropologists and other
scholars studying the people and environment of the areas that have been
since been impacted by outside cultures. Upgrading the storage
conditions will help ensure the long-term preservation of these
materials and dramatically improve accessibility for research, teaching,
and exhibition.
IMLS provided 31 Conservation Project Support grants totaling $2,614,183.
Recipients are matching these awards with $4,009,698 in non-federal
funds. IMLS received 128 CPS applications this year, requesting a total
of $9,954,623.
"Conservation Project Support grants provide much-needed assistance
to museums in their efforts to protect the collections they hold in
trust for the public," said IMLS Director Susan Hildreth. "This year’s
CPS awards will help conserve a wide array of collections: paintings,
textiles, mosaics, historic artifacts, furniture, manuscripts,
photographs, digital recordings, outdoor sculptures, 500-year-old
sundials, trees, even live sharks! Conserving and providing access to
these and other collections helps to fuel innovation, inspire the
development of new knowledge, and boost global understanding."
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