Winterthur Museum (Winterthur, DE 19735-1819)
Joelle Wickens (Project Director: December 2017 to July 2019)
Joy Gardiner (Project Director: July 2019 to January 2022)
Beth J. Parker Miller (Co Project Director: July 2019 to January 2022)
PF-260745-18
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
Preservation and Access
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Totals:
$50,000 (approved)
$50,000 (awarded)
Grant period:
10/1/2018 – 9/30/2021
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Sustainable Plan for Accessible Storage: Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library
A grant to establish a long-term storage plan to
increase accessibility and improve preventive care of the museum’s collection
of over 90,000 American decorative and fine arts objects displayed in 175 room
settings.
Winterthur requests a $50,000
planning grant to create a long-term plan to solve its current storage
challenges. The plan and eventual storage solution must improve preventive
care; be environmentally, financially, and socially sustainable; and increase
accessibility to better serve guests, students, scholars, and staff for decades
to come. The planning grant activity period marks a critical phase in the
ten-year plan to implement accessible storage solutions for Winterthur’s
preeminent collections of American decorative and fine arts objects, library
materials, garden objects, and estate artifacts. Staff will work with a team of
interdisciplinary consultants, students, and early-to-mid career professionals
to produce two or three comprehensive storage solutions. Each solution will be
evaluated to select the best plan to solve storage issues. Winterthur will
produce research and lead conferences on developing accessible storage
solutions that will be useful for smaller institutions.
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