Museum of New Mexico Foundation (Museum of Indian Arts and Culture)

The Museum of Indian Arts and Culture will use grant funds to conduct a detailed conservation survey of 5,300 whole and reconstructed archaeological ceramic vessels. This collection provides a comprehensive view of ceramics made or used in New Mexico before AD 1800, spanning almost 1,400 years of Southwestern precontact and early Native American and Spanish colonial cultures, constituting a primary resource for archaeological research in the American Southwest. The information gathered with the survey will allow staff to determine the required scope of treatment and appropriate packing to safely move the collections to a new facility under construction that will house all of the state archaeological collections.