The Henry Ford

The Henry Ford will clean, rehouse, and create digital catalog records for over 300 artifacts relating to energy, mobility, communications and information technology. The project will address issues of overcrowding, dirt, mold, and associated artifact deterioration in the storage area, while fostering both physical and virtual access to essential collections items. Museum staff will clean the artifacts and remediate mold as needed, update catalog records, and assess which objects are most at risk of deterioration. About 100 prioritized objects will be stabilized, receive additional conservation treatment, photographed, and added to museum's digital collections. The museum and the staff will benefit from having greater access to the objects in the collection through the creation of catalog records and digital images that will be available widely through the online collection portal.