2010 Landfall Foundation
The Wrightsville Beach Museum of History has been awarded a 2010 Landfall Foundation grant for the museum's "Collections Digitization and Access Project."

The mission of Wrightsville Beach Museum of History is to collect, preserve and interpret the history of Wrightsville Beach. Individuals’ donations of their photograph collections have created at the museum an important repository for the history of this beach. The largest and most vulnerable of the museum’s collection are these photographs.

In the past year the museum has begun to look more closely at long-range planning for the collections by examining the museum’s role in collections care and in making the collections more accessible to the community. Strengthening emergency planning is integral to this mission. This summer the museum took part in a Collections Assessment Program implemented by the Institute for Library and Museum Services and Heritage Preservation. The recommendations made in the assessment report by preservation professionals will be aided by the grant funds provided by the Landfall Foundation.

Our award from Landfall Foundation will allow us to purchase equipment to aid in collections digitization and creation of educational materials, aiding us in the important work of improving collections care practices, strengthening emergency planning, and making the collections more accessible across our community.

THE LANDFALL FOUNDATION (www.landfallfoundation.org)

Collections Assessment Program (CAP)
The Wrightsville Beach Museum of History has been awarded a Collections Assessment Program (CAP) grant through the Institute of Library and Museum Services and Heritage Preservation, two national non-profit organizations dedicated to preserving our national cultural heritage through museum conservation.

Through a collections report and an historic buildings report, CAP will provide the museum a general conservation assessment of the museum's collection, environmental conditions, and site. The two assessors will spend two days on-site and three days each writing a report. The building assessor will assess the building as an historic structure and the collections assessor will assess the collections. The reports will look at the conditions of the building and collections, set priorities for our future planning, and describe professional best practices to achieve these goals. The museum sees the reports as a tremendous help as the museum develops strategies for improved collections care and as we work on long-range planning and fund-raising.