The Indiana Historical Society hosts a state-of-the-art Conservation Lab for their paper-based collections that provides a variety of specialized treatments.[1] These treatments promote the long-term stability of the collections through cleaning and repair treatments. Staff of the Conservation Lab also implement preventive measures to preserve collections, this includes ensuring the correct storage and proving customized housings for materials, monitoring the storage environment, implementing an Integrated Pest Management plan, and maintaining a disaster recovery plan.[2]
Indiana Medical History Museum
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From website (will need to find alt. source to verify&publish):
Voices from Central State was a Fall 2016 event series spotlighted the patient perspective on life at Indiana's flagship mental institution, Central State Hospital (1848-1994). "We're currently planning a continuation of the Voices project, an initiative to gather stories from people with connections to Central State Hospital, including former patients, workers, neighbors, and families."
Voices from Central State is a project created by the Indiana Medical History Museum to reconnect the human specimens to the life stories and perspectives of the patients who were treated at the Central State Hospital. "Entitled Rehumanizing the IMHM Specimen Collection, a permanent exhibit of the research opened in July 2019 and was featured in the Smithsonian Magazine’s online edition that same month."[3]
(alt source - Smithsonian Magazine How One Museum Is Giving a Voice to Former Mental Health Patients) **Expand on this project.
From Encyclopedia of Indianapolis:
- Added to Indiana Landmarks Most Endangered list (2015)
-Campaign to raise the $2.2 million needed to repair and restore the Old Pathology Building (2015)
-Grants:October 4, 2021, awarded a $50,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) [4] **EXPAND - reason for grant
-Indiana Native Tree Arboretum established on museum grounds (2017)
-Section of museum grounds dedicated to native prairie plants (2018)
The Old Pathology Building was approved for a state historic marker in 2019 by the Indiana Historical Bureau[5], the marker was installed the same year in celebration of the 50th anniversary if the Museum's founding.[3]
( Indiana Historical Bureau:See page, lots of info!)
- ^ "Indiana Historical Society | History, Travel, Arts, Science, People, Places Smithsonian Magazine". www.smithsonianmag.com. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
- ^ "Conservation Lab". Indiana Historical Society. Retrieved 2024-03-04.
- ^ a b "Indiana Medical History Museum - indyencyclopedia.org". Retrieved 2023-10-10.
- ^ "NEH grants". apps.neh.gov. Retrieved 2023-10-10.
- ^ IHB (2020-12-16). "Pathological Department / Old Pathology Building". IHB. Retrieved 2023-10-10.