Michigan State University (Michigan State University Museum)

The Michigan State University Museum will preserve an important collection of rare and fragile barn models located for decades in substandard space, by rehousing them in the museum's cultural collections resource center, a climate-controlled repository. Related documentary artifacts - building plans, agricultural extension booklets, and photographs - will be inventoried and cataloged. As part of this project, a conservator will also survey the collection of agricultural and rural life materials to begin planning for a new storage facility to rehouse those items. The museum will document, catalog and photograph these collections to update the museum's database and bring the collection online. Project results will be shared on the museum's communications platforms, and web access will benefit scholars of agricultural history, rural architecture, and Depression era history.