MFAH Gets $100K Silver Polishing Grant from IMLS; UT Dress Conservators Get the Lead Out
The Museum of Fine Arts Houston will get seventeen new airtight, sulfur-free cabinets to store it’s 898-piece collection of silver alloy items, taking them out of their tissue paperĀ and plastic bags and allowing them to be viewed more often, all paid for by a $102,811 grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. [...]
El Paso’s Rubin Center Gets MAP to Polish Its Museum Cred
UTEP’s Rubin Center for the Visual Arts was selected to participate in the federal Institute of Museum and Library Services’s (IMLS) National Museum Assessment Program. The MAP program, as it’s called, is a guided self-assessment process aimed at putting the Rubin’s organization in line with best practices across the museum industry through a confidential process [...]