As a museum director or curator, you know the value of your collections, in terms of both historical significance and emotional impact on your visitors. Digitizing your existing collections can make them accessible to more people in more places so …
How one museum got over 45,000 items out of storage, published to the web, and discoverable
Did you know that on average, over 95% of most museums’ collections are not on public display at any given time? With so many historic and important objects in storage held in the “public trust,” museums everyday are faced with …
How We Stumbled Upon and Saved One of Western Maryland’s Oldest Buildings
By Nicholas Redding, President & CEO Preservation Maryland On a rainy evening in 2018, a police cruiser lost control and slammed into a small, 1,000-square-foot home at 417 North Jonathan Street in Hagerstown, a small city in rural Washington County, …
Saving Endangered African American Historic Sites
For more than 27 years, the African American Heritage Preservation Foundation (AAHPF) has advocated to mitigate the threat to endangered African American sites across the United States. The Founder and President, E. Renee Ingram, was driven to save her family …