Departmental News

Posted:  Aug 23, 2023 - 12:00pm

Dr. Kari Schleher (Faculty Curator of Archaeology at the Maxwell Museum & Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology) was awarded a $349,999 NEH Sustaining Cultural Heritage Grant: "Maxwell Museum of Anthropology: Improving Preservation with Enhanced Storage."

This grant will allow the Maxwell to better care for our archaeological and ethnographic collections through the completion of construction of compact shelving in the "pottery room" in the basement of the Hibben Center for Archaeological Research. This new shelving will allow us to relocate additional collections from ethnology and the Maxwell's off-site archaeological storage facility. The grant was co-authored with Maxwell Musuem Senior Collections Managers Karen Price and Lauren Fuka.