Art Museum Records Going Online

 National Historical Publications and Records Commission

Awards $95,700 to Newfields

         The institutional records under the purview of the Archives, Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields, will cast off the undesirable “hidden collections” status in the coming 18 months as record series are identified, appraised, arranged, and described.

Newfields is the recipient of a prestigious Access to Historical Records: Archival Projects grant from the National Historical Publications and Records Commission (NHPRC).

This federal grant is awarded annually to institutions to significantly improve online public discovery. The $95,700 award will enable Newfields to stabilize, arrange and describe an estimated 482 cubic feet of permanent institutional records, dating 1883 to 2017.

Follow the project, Downtown, to Oldfields, to Newfields: Opening the Historical Archives of a Cultural Institution, via the Twitter account @NewfieldsHist (https://twitter.com/NewfieldsHist).

[Courtesy of the Society of Indiana Archivists]