The Grace receives Conservation Assessment Program grant
The Grace Museum is excited to announce that it recent received funds from Heritage Preservation to participate in the Conservation Assessment Program! Heritage Preservation describes the program best as:
CAP provides a general conservation survey of your museum's collection, environmental conditions, and site. Conservation priorities are identified by professional conservators who spend two days on-site and three days writing a report. The report can help your museum develop strategies for improved collections care and provide a tool for long-range planning and fund-raising.
Since the Grace Museum is housed in a registered historic building, one of the two conservators to visit will be a preservation architect. The other conservator will carefully review the museum's are and history collections, with total over 8,500 tangible objects and over 10,000 pieces of archive material. With such a huge collection and a 95 year old building, it gets to be a daunting task for the small curatorial and maintenance staff of three. Participation in CAP is an essential step in the continual care and maintenance of Abilene's art and historic treasures. It will be a year long process to complete, but well worth the time and effort as The Grace Museum continues to uphold and excel in standard museum practices. Since a museum holds its collection in fiduciary trust, (that is, on behalf of the public) it is the museum's responsibility to care for the collections in its possession for the public.
It is our goal to use the culminating reports from the conservators to help develop a conservation plan for the items we hold, as well as for the building. The 1909 structure is nearing its 100th birthday, and we are so blessed to work in such a grand building. Those of us who work at The Grace Museum truly believe the Hotel Grace is the jewel of downtown. (Some would say we are a bit partial.) With an active conservation plan, the Curatorial and Operations staff can set in motion and solidify preservation measures that we expect to maintain the life of Abilene's history for generations to come so that these treasures can be enjoyed then just as much as they are now.
If you have any question about collections care at The Grace Museum, please post questions or contact me at any time.
Holly B. North
Curator of Collections/ IT Director
Distance Learning
CAP provides a general conservation survey of your museum's collection, environmental conditions, and site. Conservation priorities are identified by professional conservators who spend two days on-site and three days writing a report. The report can help your museum develop strategies for improved collections care and provide a tool for long-range planning and fund-raising.
Since the Grace Museum is housed in a registered historic building, one of the two conservators to visit will be a preservation architect. The other conservator will carefully review the museum's are and history collections, with total over 8,500 tangible objects and over 10,000 pieces of archive material. With such a huge collection and a 95 year old building, it gets to be a daunting task for the small curatorial and maintenance staff of three. Participation in CAP is an essential step in the continual care and maintenance of Abilene's art and historic treasures. It will be a year long process to complete, but well worth the time and effort as The Grace Museum continues to uphold and excel in standard museum practices. Since a museum holds its collection in fiduciary trust, (that is, on behalf of the public) it is the museum's responsibility to care for the collections in its possession for the public.
It is our goal to use the culminating reports from the conservators to help develop a conservation plan for the items we hold, as well as for the building. The 1909 structure is nearing its 100th birthday, and we are so blessed to work in such a grand building. Those of us who work at The Grace Museum truly believe the Hotel Grace is the jewel of downtown. (Some would say we are a bit partial.) With an active conservation plan, the Curatorial and Operations staff can set in motion and solidify preservation measures that we expect to maintain the life of Abilene's history for generations to come so that these treasures can be enjoyed then just as much as they are now.
If you have any question about collections care at The Grace Museum, please post questions or contact me at any time.
Holly B. North
Curator of Collections/ IT Director
Distance Learning
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