Caring for Your Heirlooms
Learn how to document your collections by taking an inventory, photographing your belongings, and more.
The first step to caring for your collection, whether it is family heirlooms, Mardi Gras throws, or sports memorabilia, is to know what you have.
In this virtual program, Decorative Arts of the Gulf South (DAGS) research fellows Elizabeth Palms and James Kelleher, show how to document your collection by taking an inventory and photographing your belongings. They will demonstrate proper techniques for handling antique objects as well as how to assess to condition issues. HNOC moderators Lydia Blackmore and Sarah Duggan, curators of the exhibition Pieces of History: Ten Years of Decorative Arts Fieldwork, discuss collection use and answer questions.
Workshop: Caring For Your Collections
Caring For Your Collections Resource Guide
Download HNOC’s Resource Guide for caring for your collections, which includes a list of vetted vendors who can help with your preservation or research efforts.
Explore Caring for Your Collection
Since 1992, HNOC has developed programs about caring for the personal collections of our community. Explore our series of workshops designed to help you learn to properly inventory, handle, care for, and augment your objects and papers with HNOC staff and outside experts.
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