Brandeis University (Rose Art Museum, Brandeis University)

The Rose Art Museum will make its collections more accessible to faculty, students, researchers, and the wider public, by verifying data and digitally capturing images for 2,287 objects. The selected works amount to almost 20 percent of the museum's collection and represent art collected during the early years of Brandeis University and the first decade of the Rose Art Museum. Staff members will work with a project photographer, and art handlers will assist with art movement and installation. While accessing these objects, the museum will ameliorate poor housing, remove and replace acidic or inadequate supports, and make condition assessments to inform future conservation priorities. Verified data will be entered in and new images linked to the museum's database and published through its publicly available digital collection database. The project will expand the use of the museum as an institution for teaching and research while raising the level of care provided for many of the major highlights in its collection.