The Collections department is excited to share our recent updates over the past few months. We’ve made strides in improving artifact storage, enhancing organization, and expanding our catalog.
Collections Move: Progress Updates
We are continuing to unpack items from the storage location at Historic White Pine Village. Items moved over this winter include women’s and men’s hats, baby and toddler clothing, medicine bottles, paintings, and various award plaques. We have moved over 96,200 artifacts and documents to our downtown location!
Improvements in the Collections
Significant improvements have been made in the museum’s collections care, ensuring better preservation and accessibility of artifacts. We are in the process of resizing photo boxes to more appropriately fit materials and reducing wasted space. In the textile room, hats have been rehoused into acid-free boxes for better preservation and dust covers have been added to hanging clothing. Items that have been moved over the summer are now being unpacked and processed into new areas. Currently, dedicated volunteers have been working on digitizing hundreds of WW2 letters. Preserving our history would not be possible without your contributions, thank you.
Research and Artifact Donations
Recent research requests have included family history and local business history. Donations from the past few months include a sign from the Pere Marquette Railroad Company, local business documents, and a collection of COVID-19 materials.
We are actively seeking any Mason County artifacts and documents, by donating you can contribute to preserving our area’s history. Please contact me at amber@mchshistory.org for research or donation.
Hi, this is a comment.
To get started with moderating, editing, and deleting comments, please visit the Comments screen in the dashboard.
Commenter avatars come from Gravatar.