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Collections Experience Highlights

Collections Care

Collaborations:

Eagle Creek Ornithology Center:

Dusted the taxidermy to assist with the annual cleaning.

Indiana Deaf Heritage Museum:

Constructed customized boxes to rehouse the doll collection.

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis:

Filled out condition reports for objects, and tested the collections evaluation rubric museum staff are developing.

Cleaning taxidermy We helped with the annual dusting of the taxidermy birds at the Eagle Creek Ornithology Center.	Eagle Creek Ornithology Center After dusting the taxidermy birds, our treat was seeing a live owl at the Eagle Creek Ornithology Center.
Building Better Boxes We constructed customized coroplast boxes to rehouse the doll collection of the Indiana Deaf Heritage Museum.	Doll Rehousing Many hands make light work of rehousing the doll collection of the Indiana Deaf Heritage Museum.
Collections Tour Before evaluating the condition and exhibition potential of several objects in the collection, we had a back-of-the-house tour of collections storage at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.

School Research Assignments

White Bloom in Leather:

Preventive Conservation research paper and presentation

Collections Conundrum:

Donor Restrictions

See presentation

See paper

Reviewing objects Students observed and assisted the conservators at several stations to examine objects public visitors brought in for recommendations about how to storage and preserve family treasures	Alongside conservators We got to observe the conservators and learn from them.
XRF Machine One of the highlights of the Collections Care Fair was the XRF machine testing and demonstrations to discover the elements present in an object- from jewelry to lamps to photographs.	2014 Collections Care Flyer.jpg

Collections Care Fair: Community Outreach

Our Preventive Conservation class organized a community outreach event to bring conservators and the public together. Visitors could bring in their family treasures to the Eiteljorg Museum for a one-on-one consultation about object preservation and storage.

Claire Broderick

Emerging Museum Professional

Collections Experience Highlights

Collections Care

Collaborations:

Cleaning taxidermy

We helped with the annual dusting of the taxidermy birds at the Eagle Creek Ornithology Center.

Eagle Creek Ornithology Center

After dusting the taxidermy birds, our treat was seeing a live owl at the Eagle Creek Ornithology Center.

Building Better Boxes

We constructed customized coroplast boxes to rehouse the doll collection of the Indiana Deaf Heritage Museum.

Doll Rehousing

Many hands make light work of rehousing the doll collection of the Indiana Deaf Heritage Museum.

Collections Tour

Before evaluating the condition and exhibition potential of several objects in the collection, we had a back-of-the-house tour of collections storage at The Children's Museum of Indianapolis.

School Research Assignments

Reviewing objects

Students observed and assisted the conservators at several stations to examine objects public visitors brought in for recommendations about how to storage and preserve family treasures

Alongside conservators

We got to observe the conservators and learn from them.

XRF Machine

One of the highlights of the Collections Care Fair was the XRF machine testing and demonstrations to discover the elements present in an object- from jewelry to lamps to photographs.

2014 Collections Care Flyer.jpg

Collections Care Fair: Community Outreach