Victoria College (Museum of the Coastal Bend)

Victoria College's Museum of the Coastal Bend will implement the primary recommendations from its participation in the Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) program. The museum will address the need for improved storage conditions and cataloging its object collections and archival materials. It will purchase equipment and archival supplies to rehouse its research and interpretive collections. The museum will employ student interns to catalogue at least forty percent of these artifacts in its online database. The project is part of a larger initiative to build the museum's capacity for a collections digitization project. Digitizing its collections would provide the public with access to artifacts from the last 13,000 years and insight into the history of the Coastal Bend, including prehistoric inhabitants and influences of European colonization attempts and Mexican settlement.