Conservation ConneCTion

Grant applications for Museum Makeover will be available starting on Monday, November 28th. Check the Conservation ConneCTion website for new grant guidelines (will be posted soon!) and links to the application.

Conservation ConneCTion Providing learning opportunities for collecting institutions through site visits, hands-on learning, and webinars/workshops.

Did you miss today's information session on the new Collections Assessment Grant? You can watch the recording and learn about the application process here -
https://youtu.be/AGN9QfzjJ6M

15 Museums and historical societies received Museum Makeover grants and the implementation of their projects are happening!

First one in the books - Wilton Historical Society. They received funding to improve the capacity of their collection storage room and improve access. Under the direction of their Traveling Curators, Maggie Dimock and Diane Lee, they migrated to moveable shelving and an improved storage design. It’s exciting to see the outcome of months of planning and work!

Congratulation to Nick Foster and everyone at Wilton!

Here are the before and after photos.

Starting our week at the last of 6 Archives Roundtables. We are at the Connecticut State Archives for a program with Kathy Foulke on Introduction to Digitization. We've had a great turn out for these programs. Thank you for participating!

We're at Western Connecticut State University in the Haas Library to learn from archivist Brian Stevens on how to add finding aids to Connecticut Archives Online. Full house!

Participants working together in an archival arrangement activity.

Starting this cold morning at the Litchfield Historical Society learning to arrange and describe archives, 4th in our 6-part Archives Roundtable workshop series.