Inventory of 3-D Artifacts
To provide better organization of the museum collections, allowing for greater public access to the community?s historic resources.
$4,500,000 the first year and $6,500,000 the second year are for history programs and projects operated or conducted by or through local, county, regional, or other historical or cultural organizations or for activities to preserve significant historic and cultural resources. Funds are to be distributed through a competitive grant process. The Minnesota Historical Society must administer these funds using established grant mechanisms, with assistance from the advisory committee created under Laws 2009, chapter 172, article 4, section 2, subdivision 4, paragraph (b), item (ii).
Available upon request. grants@mnhs.org
Short term, we have met the measurable outcome to organize the collections in such a manner that artifacts listed in past perfect can be located in an average of 5 minutes. Prior to the inventory work, only 1,170 records were entered into past perfect with little to no information on location. Now over 11,000 records have been entered, the majority (85.25%) with precise locations in collections storage areas.
After the inventory wraps up we plan to continue to add entries to the system at the rate of 100 per year. As the inventory covered the majority of our collection storage areas, efforts will be concentrated on objects and archives housed in the photograph vault.
Long term goal to rotate items on display at the museums to increase accessibility of the collections. September 2019 a selection of artifacts from the inventory were rotated onto display. These items were chosen by the contractors to highlight their favorite artifacts found during the inventory. We also rotated John Beargrease?s sled and snowshoes on display at the depot. All items had not been displayed at our museum for at least 20 years. Currently there is little space to rotate artifacts out on display, but in the future we hope to reconfigure the exhibits to allow for more flexibility.
Available upon request, grants@mnhs.org