Prince George's African American Museum & Cultural Center

Prince George's African American Museum and Cultural Center will create a digital collection database to allow greater public accessibility to its collection of 1,000 artifacts, sound recordings, photos, and documents relating to local and regional African American history and culture. A nine-month fellowship will provide professional museum collections and curatorial experience to a local graduate student or PhD candidate. A consultant will present a series of four workshops for the fellow and museum staff on best practices for collections acquisition; handling, preservation, and maintenance of objects; describing and cataloguing items; and capturing and scanning high quality images of objects and documents in alignment with industry standards and best practices. Additional collections storage equipment will be purchased for the museum's off-site storage facility, where staff will conduct an audit of current holdings. An external evaluator will measure the museum's success in achieving project goals.