Improving the Museum's High-Polish Metal Trophy Storage Environment

FAIN: PG-266710-19

Indianapolis Motor Speedway Foundation, Inc. (Indianapolis, IN 46222-2550)
Roxine Dunbar (Project Director: January 2019 to January 2022)

The purchase of storage cabinets, shelves, and preservation supplies to enable the rehousing of 391 trophies from the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum’s collection documenting the history of the automobile industry and wheeled racing.  These artifacts also help to tell the stories of trophy design, sports marketing, and corporate involvement in the auto racing world.  The trophies date from 1903 to 2017 and represent road races, dirt track contests, oval and road courses, endurance races, hill climbs, and motorcycle races from across the globe.

This project will support ongoing preservation and collections care efforts at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum through the purchase of three hermetically-sealed, museum-quality cabinets, as well as supplies to properly clean and house objects in our high-polish metal trophy collection. The rehousing and storage of this collection will be the culmination of a greater effort that includes updates to our collections management database, and the creation of a new housekeeping plan and handling guide specifically for our trophy collection.