Description

In anticipation of the final phase of a capital renovation project to create new collection galleries, storage, and an embedded Children’s Museum of art and culture, the Queens Museum (QM) will embark on a year-long collection move and inventory and documentation project. The QM’s fine arts collection, numbering 3000 objects, was initiated shortly after the museum’s founding in 1972 as the “Queens County Art and Cultural Center,”’ an offshoot of the Metropolitan Museum of Art. Little known internally or externally, the holdings are strong in late-20th century abstraction and post-2000 socially engaged art produced in or for specific communities. A key project outcome will be the QM’s first online catalogue of the collection and high-resolution photographs of the objects, a resource that will facilitate collection care and accessibility for the QM’s curators and educators as well as for scholars and the general public. Grant funds will underwrite a full-time registrar, contract collections staff and photographer, and the purchase of a data access management system.