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Biodiversity Information Science and Standards : Conference Abstract
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Deborah Harding‡, Gretchen E. Anderson‡
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Corresponding author: Deborah Harding (hardingd@carnegiemnh.org), Gretchen E. Anderson (andersong@carnegiemnh.org)
Received: 15 Jun 2018 | Published: 05 Jul 2018
© 2018 Deborah Harding, Gretchen Anderson
This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY 4.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Citation: Harding D, Anderson G (2018) A Royal Pain, But Worth It: New Storage for Old Collections. Biodiversity Information Science and Standards 2: e27553. https://doi.org/10.3897/biss.2.27553
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Abstract
Three years ago, the Section of Anthropology, Carnegie Museum of Natural History, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA, received a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities to rehouse its 1.5-million-specimen archaeological collection. The entire Anthropology collection was affected by the movement of the archaeology material, and required additional attention.
With a staff of two people, a conservator, and a host of wonderful volunteers and interns, the security and accessibility of the collections were greatly enhanced through the creation of custom housing for a variety of objects, including pottery, textiles, spears, bows and arrows, saddles, etc. This poster shows a sampling of the storage upgrades that resulted from this intense project.
Keywords
Anthropology, Archaeology, collections, storage, access, custom housing, space-efficient, repuposed material
Presenting author
Deborah G. Harding
Presented at
SPNHC-TDWG Conference 2018