Cable Museum of Natural History

The Cable Natural History Museum will upgrade its collections record-keeping and public display practices in order to strengthen its school programs, improve its environmental education programs, and help prepare the museum for accreditation by the American Association of Museums. To improve collections management, the museum will acquire PastPerfect software, transfer data from original accession records into the database, photograph each specimen, and incorporate digital images into the specimen records. The museum’s naturalist will be trained formally in collections management, and student interns will assist in cataloguing, photography, and website work. To improve public display practices, the museum will acquire twelve movable display units to permit frequent rotation of objects from the permanent collection into public view, install two information kiosks to provide online access to the collections database from within the museum, and install interpretive signage addressing environmental relationships pertinent to the specimens on display.