Bowdoin College (Bowdoin College Museum of Art)

Bowdoin College will improve both physical and digital access to the collections of its two museums, the Bowdoin College Museum of Art and the Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum. The project team will consolidate the museums' collections into a newly-renovated, climate-controlled storage facility. Led by collections staff from both museums, the project team will include an art handler, a registrar's assistant, and a collections management intern. Project activities will include packing and unpacking objects, relocating/rehousing them, and photographing and updating records in each museum's collections management database. The team will also catalog newly-acquired collections and upload images and information to the museums' online collections portals. The project will provide greater public access to the history, cultures, and ideas represented in the collections of the two museums.