New Work in Collections
IMLS Grant
The MPMRC has received an IMLS two year grant, the “Northeast Native Museum and Cultural Center Leadership Consortium”. This provides for a partnership between the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center, Akwesasne Cultural Center, Seneca-Iroquois National Museum, Wampanoag Indian Program at Plimoth Plantation, Shinnecock Nation Cultural Center and Museum, and the Penobscot Nation Cultural and Historical Preservation Department.
Part of this grant provides for professional development for the partners. One area of need identified by our partners has been collections care. Our staff conservator Doug Currie and collections managers Kim Peters and Meredith Vasta have developed in consultation with our partners an individualized collections care workshop for each partner to meet whatever specific collections care topics they are most interested in. We will be traveling to each of the five partner museums to do an on-site workshop with their staff. This will give us an opportunity to exchange new ideas and try to tackle some of our common collections care problems together.
