The delaware and lehigh national heritage corridor, on behalf of the national canal museum, will conduct a wall-to-wall inventory of the museum's main collections storage facility and physically and…

The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, on behalf of the National Canal Museum, will receive $241,470 under a three-year Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to conduct a comprehensive inventory and improve access to its offsite collections storage facility. As part of the Museums for America program's goal of strengthening museums' ability to serve the public, 10,000 objects from the Museum's personnel and financial records, Dixie product collections, and Bethlehem Steel films will be fully inventoried with new or updated records and digital images. The Museum will hire a full-time coordinator and train three interns over the project period to complete the inventory work, and increase public awareness of the collections through outreach on social media and other digital platforms.

The delaware and lehigh national heritage corridor, on behalf of the national canal museum, will conduct a wall-to-wall inventory of the museum's main collections storage facility and physically and digitally improve access to the objects stored there. This three-year project will inventory the collections housed at the museum's offsite storage facility, resulting in new or updated records for approximately 10,000 objects with digital images. Collections include personnel and financial records from the lehigh crane iron collection, the dixie collection of 20TH century dixie products and 16 MM films produced by bethlehem steel corporation. The museum will hire a full-time inventory coordinator and train three interns to assist with the inventory over the course of the project. They hope to increase public awareness of the project and of the museum's collections through regular outreach via social media and other digital platforms.