Pacific Asia Museum

Pacific Asia Museum will use grant funds to safeguard its noted collection of Asian ceramics from the effects of seismic activity. The project will safely house approximately 300 works, the balance of the museum’s ceramics collection that remains at risk in its storage facility. In this earthquake-prone region, this is considered by conservation specialists to be the collection’s most urgent conservation need. The museum will install an additional compact storage unit designed to protect works from the kind of motion associated with seismic events. With this substantial layer of protection, these fragile works' useful lives will be extended, providing the public with greater access to them.