Program
Overview
The Conservation Assessment Program (CAP) is supported
through a cooperative agreement between the Institute
of Museum and Library Services and Heritage Preservation.
The general conservation assessment (unlike a detailed
collection survey) provides an overview of all of the
museum’s collections as well as its environmental
conditions and policies and procedures relating to collections
care.
The program supports a two-day site visit
by a conservation professional to perform the assessment.
For museums located in historic structures, the grant
supports a two-day site visit by a preservation architect.
Assessment reports are then provided three days later.
CAP also helps institutions with living
animal collections, such as zoos and aquariums, that
do not have an assessment of the animals’ physical
conditions and habitats. Institutions with fully surveyed
living animal collections (such as those accredited
by the American Zoological Association) may use the
grant to assess the conservation needs of their material
collections only. Botanic gardens and arboretums may
use the grant to assess the conservation needs of both
their living and material collections.
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