The University of South Carolina’s McKissick Museum is excited to announce that it is one of 75 institutions in the United States selected to participate in the Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) program.
The CAP program helps museums improve the care of their collections by providing support for a general conservation assessment of the museum’s collections and building systems. Staff at McKissick Museum will work with a team of preservation professionals to identify preventive conservation priorities. The final assessment report will help the museum prioritize its collections care efforts in the coming years.
The museum hopes that this support for collections planning and conservation will allow McKissick to pinpoint at-risk objects within its collection, estimated at around 250,000 objects, and craft pathways for their preservation for future exhibition and study. Christian Cicimurri, McKissick’s Curator of Collections is thrilled with the Foundation’s decision. “We are very excited McKissick Museum was chosen to participate in this competitive program, and the resulting CAP report will help us prioritize collections stewardship efforts for the next decade.”
The CAP program is administered by the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation through a cooperative agreement with the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
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