Detroit Institute of Arts

The Detroit Institute of Arts will use grant funds to upgrade collections storage for its American art collections. The museum will purchase and install new nonreactive storage cabinets for objects, racking and storage platform for sculptures, a work table, and wall screens to provide vertical hanging space for metalwork and mirrors. The project also includes moving, unpacking, and reorganizing 2,344 American decorative arts, small sculptures, and three large Daniel Chester French plasters from three separate temporary storage rooms into newly renovated and reconfigured space. The project will also allow the museum to implement preventive conservation measures for security and long-term stability of these objects, so the collection will be readily accessible to curators, conservators, and scholars for study and research, treatment, photography, and gallery rotation or loan.