4Culture Announces 2009 Heritage Collections Care Recipients
Congratulations to the seventeen projects that received funding this year from the Heritage Collections Care program. A total of $52,500 was awarded to projects county-wide. In its second year, the program seeks to address a critical need for the conservation of local collections to help preserve King County historical artifacts. Priority is given to basic collections issues, institutional support, and creation/evaluation of organizational collections plans.
The projects funded through this year’s program address a wide range of collections care issues, including:
• Traditional cataloging projects for non-traditional collections, like the Northwest Railway Museum’s small objects collection (“small” meaning anything under one ton)
• Projects that preserve collected objects like the Burke Museum’s collection of artifacts from a turn-of-the 20th Century dump that illuminate lifestyles from NW history
• Funding for practical improvements to collections storage, such as new dock fenders for the Center for Wooden Boats’ in-the-water fleet of Blanchard Junior Knockabout Sailboats
A complete recipient list follows:
| Applicant | Project Title | Award |
| Burke Museum Association | Preservation of the Viaduct: An Archaeological Collection | $4,000 |
| Center for Wooden Boats | Preservation of Lake Union’s Blanchard Junior Knockabout Sailboats | $3,264 |
| Densho: The Japanese American Legacy Project | “Unfinished Business”: Japanese American Internment Case Interviews | $4,000 |
| Issaquah Historical Society | Increasing Collections Information & Accessibility | $2,500 |
| Jack Straw Productions | KRAB Audio Archive: Preserving Seattle History | $3,000 |
| Museum of Flight | Boeing Field (King County International Airport) History Archival Project | $3,750 |
| Nordic Heritage Museum | Textile Collections Re-Housing Project | $2,000 |
| Northwest African American Museum | NAAM Collections Catalog Development Project | $2,471 |
| Northwest Railway Museum | Northwest Railway Museum Small Object Cataloging | $4,000 |
| Redmond Historical Society | Redmond Oral History Project | $1,500 |
| Renton Historical Society & Museum | Moving the Collection to New Off-Site Storage | $3,564 |
| Skykomish Historical Society | Preserving the Story of the Iron Goat Trail | $3,500 |
| Snoqualmie Valley Historical Museum | We Did It Right! What’s Next? | $2,380 |
| Southwest Seattle Historical Society/Log House Museum | Creating Storage Solutions for Archive and Artifact Collections and Cataloging | $1,936 |
| Vashon-Maury Island Heritage Association | VMIHA Collection Standards Initiative – Upgrade Artifact Storage | $3,435 |
| Washington State Holocaust Education Resource Center | King County Holocaust Heritage Artifact Preservation Project | $3,200 |
| White River Valley Museum | Cataloguing & Assessment of Collections for Mary Olson Farm | $4,000 |
For more information on 4Culture’s Heritage Collections Care program, contact Eric Taylor, 206 296.8688.
Image: Blanchard Junior Knockabout boat at Lake Union, Courtesy of Center for Wooden Boats
