From: "Seymour, Janet I - WHS" <Janet.Seymour@wisconsinhistory.org> Date: Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:12:50 -0500 Subject: List Serve FW: Policy for Collecting Artifacts Message-ID: <488E289A5C909049B0E55F6B651B5B3501797FDC62FC@MEWMAD0PC01G02.accounts.wistate.us>
List Serve Members - Here is an inquiry from the Jacksonport Historical Soc
iety - please reply to the list with your suggestions and comments. Thank y
ou! Janet
Janet Seymour
Field Services Representative - Northern Region, Wisconsin Historical Socie
ty
c/o Department of History, UW-Eau Claire
105 Garfield Avenue Eau Claire WI 54701
Voice: 715-836-2250
Collecting, Preserving, and Sharing Stories Since 1846
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To All List Serve Members:
The Jacksonport Historical Society, Inc. has asked me to put together a wri
tten policy for accepting artifacts for the Jacksonport Historical Society
Archives. About a year ago we purchased property and are in the planning s
tage as to the layout of the property and design of a museum (or a group of
buildings for a museum). We have been accepting everything that someone h
as donated to the Historical Society, but are getting limited on storage sp
ace. There fore the general consensus of the Board of Trustees is that we
need to create a policy for collection of artifacts, but still want to be c
areful that we do not hurt anyone's feelings or "step on anyone's toes" by
not accepting something that we feel would not be a usable artifact for us.
We would be pleased to hear from other Historical Society's as to what thei
r artifact collection policy is or any suggestions and advice that they may
have.
Regards
Eileen Roberts
Jacksonport Historical Society
4768 Hwy 57
Sturgeon Bay, WI 54235
Phone: 920-743-6415
jacksonporthistory@charter.net<mailto:jacksonporthistory@charter.net>
www.jacksonporthistoricalsociety.org<http://www.jacksonporthistoricalsociet
y.org>