[MCN] For Immediate Release - Historical Museum has temporarily suspended collections donations

[Jessie Rogers]

Due to the pandemic and an underway assessment of our collection storage, the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula has placed a temporary collections donation moratorium
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Hello Friends,

Due to the pandemic and that we are currently in the process of a collections storage assessment through the American Association of Museums, the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula is temporarily suspending all donations to the permanent collection at this time. We will re-evaluate the situation in September. Thank you for your understanding during this time.

The reasoning behind this decision is three-fold:

  1.  To minimize interactions between staff and the public.
  2.  Due to restrictions on volunteer hours, we have an absence of the needed volunteers and interns who assist the staff in processing incoming donations.
  3.  The overwhelming generosity of the community over the last few years (we have added almost 7,000 artifacts of all types to the collection since Jan. 1, 2017) has led to a shortage in storage space.
     *   Some breathing room will allow staff time to reorganize current storage spaces to create room for more artifacts.
Please help us get the word out on the moratorium and check our website or Facebook page for updates on the status of donations. If you have any questions please contact Ted Hughes at 406-258-3472 or thughes at missoulacounty.us<mailto:thughes at missoulacounty.us>.
Thank you for supporting the Historical Museum and trusting us to preserve the material treasures of our state's history. We look forward to sharing the stories of our past with you again soon.

Sincerely,
Ted Hughes, Curator of Collections


Jessie Rogers
Development & Communications Director
The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula

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