Los Angeles County Museum of Art

The Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) will conduct a comprehensive inventory, rehousing, and reorganization of its costume and textiles collection as part of the first phase of an eight-year initiative to improve stewardship of and increase public access to the collection. The project will focus on 20,600 costume and textiles objects currently stored on the museum's campus to improve physical and online access to the objects and extend their longevity for research, exhibition, and public programming, as well as prepare them for a move to a new facility in 2018. Over a 15-month period, the project team will also shoot documentary-quality photographs for object records lacking current images and publish 4,100 new object records online, accessible through the museum's website. LACMA will evaluate the project regularly, ensuring adherence to processing benchmarks of 4,120 objects per quarter.