General Preservation Assessment to Preserve Ethnography Collection

FAIN: PA-50516-04

New Bedford Whaling Museum (New Bedford, MA 02740-6398)
Michael A. Jehle (Project Director: May 2003 to October 2005)

A general preservation assessment of the museum's ethnographic collection of 925 artifacts related to the Oceanic and Northern Pacific expeditions by nineteenth-century Yankee whalers, and a more detailed conservation assessment of 120 objects that will be installed in the museum's core exhibit in 2005.