Join us for this first webinar in the Preserving Our Past Webinar Series! This series will explore the work that is done at U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service (Service) museums and archives to preserve, catalog and exhibit important historic Service artifacts, documents and photos. Viewers will also learn how to properly identify, protect, and store historic items at their own sites.
This episode is an introduction to the diverse collections of historic artifacts, documents and photos found at Service museums and archives. A Service historian, museum curator, and archaeologist will show you some of these items, describe why they are important, and explain what are our obligations to preserve them. A short question and answer period will follow the presentation.
Objectives:
Upon completion of this webinar, participants will be able to identify key traits that makes an artifact, document or photo historic and worth collecting, preserving and exhibiting. Describe what are the Service’s obligations to collecting, cataloging, preserving and exhibiting historic artifacts, documents and photos. Lastly, participants will be able to identify items at their site that the Service may want to preserve onsite or at one of its museums or archives.
Presenters:
Mark Madison, Service Historian
Steve Floray, Museum Curator
Eugene Marino, Service Archaeologist
Who Should Attend:
Service project leaders, visitor services staff, maintenance employees, and others who want to know more about working with historic artifacts and museum collections.
Reasonable Accommodations:
The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service is committed to providing access to this training for all participants. Please direct all requests for sign language interpreting services or other accommodation needs to Blaine Eckberg by email, blaine_eckberg@fws.gov or TTY 800-877-8339 by 9 pm EDT Wednesday, April 6, 2022.
Closed captions are provided for program.
Event date and time
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Event location name
Virtual
Age range
All ages