The Conservation Assessment
Program Turns 20!

Twenty Years of Conservation Improvements through CAP

To mark the 20th Anniversary of the Conservation Assessment Program, collections care improvement stories from twenty former CAP participants are featured at www.heritagepreservation.org/CAP. "Twenty Years of Conservation Improvements through CAP" showcases one museum from each year in the twenty year history of CAP, and shows how each museum has used its CAP recommendations to improve collections care.

From the Quincy Art Center in Illinois, to Iolani Palace in Hawaii, to the Beartooth Nature Center in Montana, we have brought together stories of preservation improvements that involve everything from careful restoration of historic buildings to extensive fund-raising for collections storage furniture to innovative methods of volunteer recruitment for collections projects to the construction of new habitats for living animal collections. Gain inspiration and valuable ideas in the field of collections care from the examples of these dedicated museum professionals.

If you have a story about your museum’s achievements in collections care since your CAP assessment, please consider submitting it for inclusion in a future issue of CAP’s semi-annual newsletter, CAPabilities. Please e-mail your stories to cap(a)heritagepreservation.org.

CAP is currently accepting applications for 2010, its twentieth anniversary year. Applications are available for download at Heritage Preservation’s website at www.heritagepreservation.org/CAP. The postmark deadline for submitting applications is December 1, 2009. For more information, call 202-233-0800 or e-mail cap(a)heritagepreservation.org. Heritage Preservation’s CAP is supported through a cooperative agreement with the Institute of Museum and Library Services.