Sandy Spring Museum

Sandy Spring Museum will comprehensively rebuild the database of the museum's collection and address historical inequities in the museum's collecting practices. Social context for the collection will be created by connecting artifacts with their cultural significance (an associated person, group of people, place, or activity). This process will help identify stories that are missing from the museum's collection. In addition, a Collections Development Plan will be created, articulating which stories from the demographically diverse museum community should be included in the collection. The plan will honor the Sandy Spring area's early Euro-American settlers while also giving voice to the early free and enslaved Black communities, and the ethnic and religious minorities who have moved to the community since the 1980s.