Adams Museum & House

Adams Museum and House will address a backlog of collections accessioning and cataloging to improve accessibility to its collections by upgrading its collections management software, hiring a registrar, and investing in storage supplies. The museum will also offer a series of three public workshops focusing on collections care and management in the museum and for family heirlooms. By expanding on a past project that created a fully integrated database system to manage the institution's artifact and historic photograph collections, the museum is seeking to meet standards in the Stewardship of Collections section of the American Association for State and Local History's Standards and Excellence Program (STEPS). The project will make the museum's entire collection far more accessible, ensuring staff can make informed decisions benefiting future exhibits, publications, programs and research.