Grants for Irene Recovery, Masonry and Collections Care
February 13, 2012 Three recent grants have been awarded to the museum related to Irene. While doing no major damage to the building, Tropical Storm Irene did wash away the new outdoor interpretive area, which had been completed just two weeks earlier. In addition, the retaining wall on the Mill Brook suffered major damage due to the scouring effects of the flood and will need to be replaced before work can begin on the interpretive area. The museum is working closely with town, regional, state, and federal partners to repair and rebuild and looking for ways to protect the site and mitigate against future natural disasters.
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Shaping America Exhibit Wins National Endowment for the Humanities Award
A new, permanent exhibition at the museum will open May 2014, thanks to an award of $340,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH). Shaping America: Machines and Machinists at Work will enable the museum to showcase its unparalleled collection of historic precision machine tools and to tell the story of Windsor as an important incubator of the machine tool industry.
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International Manufacturing Technology Show
American Precision Museum Attends 2010 IMTS in Chicago
The American Precision Museum was the main attraction in the first-ever Manufacturing Museum at IMTS. Well over 1,000 people visited our booth asking questions about the museum and promising to visit. It was an honor to have been invited to attend, and we are grateful to AMT for giving us that opportunity.
The relationship between the American Precision Museum and the Association For Manufacturing Technology goes back to the establishment of the Machine Tool Hall of Fame, now featured on the museum’s website. This began as a joint project between the two organizations to honor those pioneers in the machine tool industry who have made significant contributions to the American machine tool industry.
Found in Collections
A Three-Part Story
This three-part story began in 2006 when the Institute for Museum and Library Services awarded $136,000 for the museum's three year, Collections Information Project, enabling us to hire our first Collections Manager, and upgrade our recordkeeping and care standards for the museum's three dimensional collections. With the addition of matching funds provided by MacLean-Fogg and the Gleason Foundation, we installed new, networked collections management software and wrote standards for documentation and care and handling, and carefully rearranged objects in storage to promote their longevity and ease of access.