Illinois State Museum

The Illinois State Museum Society will partner with eleven diverse organizations to establish the Illinois Collections Preservation Plan and Network. The partnership will hold a series of meetings across the state and accessible by teleconference to consider critical preservation topics with government organizations, large public and private institutions, and small and mid-sized collections-holding organizations. The meetings will focus on four themes: providing tools and assessing needs for improving conditions and collections care; disaster training and cooperative response; building public preservation awareness through training and programming; and integrating existing preservation grants for statewide benefit. The project partners will establish the statewide plan and network to carry out the recommendations of The Heritage Health Index.