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The Community Museums Association of PEI has announced they are at the mid-way point of a new project that will directly benefit many of our local community museums.
The “Collections Management Support Program for Island Community Museums” project will provide local museums with assistance in accessioning (processing) their unprocessed artefacts. Accessioning includes capturing digital images, writing descriptions, collecting relevant information, and researching the artefacts history and its connection to the Island. Using a specialized collections management software program, the collected information will be entered and digital images tagged to each record.
The project is led by the coordinator Sabrina Webster who has worked with many of the local museums and their collections is the past, and employs two museum researchers, Lisa Hennessey and Lesley Noonan who each bring unique and valuable skill sets to the project. The researchers will gain valuable experience working collectively with the local museum community. Over the six months term of the project, the team will travel across the Island, working with over twelve community museums.
Barry King, Executive Director of the association noted “The foundation on which all museums are built is the development and documentation of the collection that they are committed to preserve for the future”. This project provides assistance to community museums that are primarily run by a staff of volunteers, who give of themselves for the preservation of our collective heritage. www.lmda.pe.ca