We also Served: Safeguarding our Heritage

FAIN: PG-266302-19

Museum of the American Military Family and Learning Center (Albuquerque, NM 87185-5085)
Circe Olson Woessner (Project Director: December 2018 to October 2025)

The purchase of archival boxes, a HEPA (High-Efficiency Particulate Air) vacuum, and temporary storage rental for a collection of 1,600 items, including coins, textiles, patches, paintings, pottery, photographs, letters, documents, and audiovisual materials that tell the history on the home front and abroad of American military families.  The collections, which are used in exhibits and traveling educational programs, represent a wide range of experiences and include letters between service members and their families during World War II, documents and photographs related to the establishment of the Defense Department school system for children of military personnel, and military artifacts from Sub-Saharan Africa, the Middle East, and Europe.

This project will enable our Museum to fulfill the most urgent of CAP recommendations made last May during an Assessment Visit. It will cover costs of obtaining preservation equipment and temporary storage of fragile collection items during a facility upgrade.