The Henry Ford

The Henry Ford will clean, re-house, and digitize catalog records for over 900 electrical-related artifacts intended for the "Digital Life" exhibition, a major upcoming permanent exhibition that will explore innovation-related themes and topics tied to industrialization, mass production, and the information revolution. Cleaning and rehousing these artifacts will improve their condition, enhance preservation, and address long-standing storage problems. Improved catalog records and digital imagery will make artifact information and images available to museum staff, facilitate the development of key interpretive ideas and themes, and feed publicly available digital collections interfaces. The completion of this project will directly support one of the museum's long-term strategic goals, increase public accessibility to historically significant collections, and improve the Henry Ford's overall collections stewardship capacity.