Witte Museum

The Witte Museum will improve care of 50,000 artifacts from the Texas History Collection through cataloging, rehousing and enhancing collections management. This project builds on a recently completed concept plan for a new interpretive strategy that will reveal the history of Texas through individual, familial, and generational stories ensuring that all visitors see themselves represented in the history galleries. Project activities will include purchasing a metal shelving system, and training volunteers to process artifacts, update catalog records, and rehouse the objects in the new storage equipment. Objects that will be rehoused include furniture, ceramics, glassware, decorative arts, food tins and commercial products, fashion accessories, musical instruments, tools for various forms of labor, and entertainment artifacts. As a result, museum staff will be better able to plan exhibitions and rotate a wider variety of artifacts which will increase the number of stories that can be shared in the galleries and updated as new scholarship emerges.