Atlanta Botanical Garden

The Atlanta Botanical Garden will advance the museum field’s ability to identify new solutions that address high priority and widespread collections care or conservation issues in the botanic garden community by expanding a collections consortia approach. The current consortia model limits accessibility for smaller organizations to effective and efficient conservation processes. This project will build off of previous IMLS-funded projects to increase the accessibility of tools, frameworks and guidance developed within a garden consortia model to improve collections management within small gardens. Project activities will include coordinating the development of the consortium, conducting genetic analysis to inform a gap analysis, developing an app for metacollection management, and providing ongoing training and outreach to existing and new consortium members. The garden will hire a communication content coordinator to assist with developing, implementing and evaluating training materials and workshop agendas with the consortia coordinators. As a result, gardens of any size will have support, training, and access to tools that will help them better manage living plant collections.