August Wilson Center for African American Culture

The August Wilson Center for African American Culture will launch a collections management initiative designed to better understand and manage its collections. The initiative will focus on optimal preservation practices and establishing policies for the handling and exhibiting of objects. It will produce a database, which will house an inventory of collections, and a collections policy, which will document the history and significance of the collection as well as the policies and procedures regarding the receipt, acquisition, cataloguing, storage, and de-accessioning of items in the collection. The museum will hire a collections specialist who will be responsible for creating and maintaining the database.