Denver Museum of Nature and Science

The Denver Museum of Nature and Science will conduct conservation stabilization treatment for 375 high-priority objects in its American Ethnology Collection of materials from 420 American Indian tribes, including clothing and accessories, cradleboards, musical instruments and toys, kachina, household items, horse gear and travel, and weapons. Concurrent with the project, and after stabilization treatment has occurred, the objects will be re-housed on customized mounts in new storage cabinets. Project results will be broadly disseminated during and after the project's completion through articles, a photographic blog, tours of the conservation lab and the collection center, and in a paper to be presented at a professional natural history conference. This project advances the museum's most fundamental purpose and its strategic plan by completing much-needed conservation treatments as a critical step in the continuum of optimal collection care, as well as providing physical stability to these collections while broadening access.