Southern Illinois University (University Museum)

The University Museum at Southern Illinois University will improve its collections stewardship by implementing Stage II of the Museum Collections Inventory Project. During Stage II, museum staff, graduate assistants, and grant funded Research Assistants will inventory approximately 10,000 objects from the ethnographic collections from the continents of South America, Asia, Africa and Oceania. Project activities will include identifying and recording undocumented objects found in these collections, completing digital photographic documentation, improving basic storage stabilization, and gathering condition information for each object inventoried. This project will provide a foundation for increased intellectual control and preservation of the museum's ethnographic collections and expand the accessibility of the collections and associated data for both research and educational purposes.