Portland Museum: Protecting our Humanities CollectionsThrough Environmental Control

FAIN: PZ-50165-08

Portland Museum (Louisville, KY 40212-1036)
Nathalie Taft Andrews (Project Director: October 2007 to April 2010)

The improvement of environmental conditions to preserve collections of historical objects, costumes, paintings, drawings, photographs, books, documents, and oral histories that document the history of Portland, Kentucky.

The Portland Museum, a community-focused museum in Louisville, Kentucky, requests NEH funds to install a professionally engineered climate control system in Beech Grove, an historic home that houses the museum and its collections. More than 5,000 objects and records that play an important role in educating and revitalizing this urban community of need will be stabilized.