Program

Preservation and Access: Preservation/Access Projects

Period of Performance

10/1/2004 - 6/30/2007

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$579,069.00 (approved)
$579,069.00 (awarded)


Completion of the Rehousing of the Art of the Ancient World Collections

FAIN: PA-50866-04

Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (Boston, MA 02115-5523)
Arthur Beale (Project Director: October 2003 to October 2007)

The purchase of storage furniture and the cataloging of the museum's Art of the Ancient World collection. In this project, 8,620 Egyptian and Nubian objects and 6,699 Greek and Roman artifacts would be rehoused, 8,100 objects currently without records would be cataloged, and digital images would be created for 13,700 objects and added to the museum's online catalog.