Museum Village in Orange County

Building on the success of a previously funded MFA collections inventory, the Museum Village at Old Smith’s Clove will take the next step to refine its collections management based on integration with their recently completed comprehensive interpretive plan. In this project, four part-time collections associates with subject knowledge aligning with the museum’s collecting fields will work with other museum staff members to make recommendations to the board on the disposition of redundant or unrelated artifacts as well as those that may be used in an education collection for outreach programs. Items deemed appropriate for the collection will be catalogued using PastPerfect software, bringing the museum a step closer to making the collection publicly accessible through digitization and the Internet.