Weeksville Heritage Center

The Weeksville Heritage Center will strengthen its institutional capacity by professionalizing its collections practices. As the only museum interpreting African American history in the 19th and 20th century in the Northeast, Weeksville Heritage Center seeks to preserve its collections, while identifying ways to use them more effectively in exhibits and programs. Funding will support the creation of a part-time position of Collections Manager, who will be responsible for evaluating the 450 artifacts in the center's collections, developing and implementing a collections management policy, overseeing the initiation of an environmental monitoring system, and collaborating with program staff to utilize collections more effectively in public programming. The environmental monitoring system will utilize specialized equipment to monitor temperature and humidity in the historic structures since it is impossible to install modern HVAC units in these buildings.