Historical & Museum Commission, Pennsylvania

The State Museum of Pennsylvania will complete the second phase of its Collection Advancement Project to inventory and catalog its 38,000-item Community and Domestic Life collection. Automating the collections records and improving documentation on artifacts will enable the museum to more easily provide collections information to its audiences by greatly decreasing the amount of research time required to assemble artifacts for exhibitions, research, and loans. The project will reconcile artifacts to original provenance data which will enhance the interpretive value of many thousands of artifacts. Greater intellectual control over collections will result in higher-quality exhibits supported by improved scholarship.