IMLS Funding Conserves Material Culture from Africa In 2000-01, under an award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS, the Museum was able to conduct a key environmental improvement project highlighted in the Museum's 1991 General Survey Report and in the 1992 Long-range Preservation/Conservation Plan. Funds supported the continued preservation and research access of several large and important collections of nineteenth- to mid-twentieth-century African material culture. The project involved the examination, documentation, stabilization, and rehousing of 450 African carved wood masks and figurines, ivory carvings, and composite objects that included headdresses and musical instruments to facilitate and ensure safe research handling and access.
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