Imperial Valley Desert Museum

The Imperial Valley Desert Museum will improve the care and management of its collections by renovating its storage areas. The museum will restructure the internal layout of its storage spaces from a grouping of four separate rooms into a single integrated space. The space will be further expanded by replacing fixed-shelf storage with rolling shelf storage units. Collections will be reboxed and relabeled as part of the rehousing project. The project will allow the museum to address priorities identified in earlier assessments through both the Museum Assessment and Collections Assessment for Preservation programs. The new storage area will support enhanced environmental and pest control monitoring in addition to allowing the museum to accommodate larger groups of visiting researchers and students.