Utah Collections Preservation
About Us
The Utah Division of Arts & Museums (UA&M) and Utah Humanities (UH) are working together to establish the Utah Collections Preservation (UCP) program, providing preservation training to humanities collections stewards statewide. Over the next three years, this program will support comprehensive preservation training for collections stewards through webinars, in-person workshops, preservation assessments, and the focused training of seven Collections Preservation Team members. This program is supported by the State of Utah and the National Endowment for the Humanities through a Preservation and Access Education and Training grant.
We at the Division of Arts & Museums are working to make our content as accessible as possible to all. All workshop and webinar materials used will be provided to registrants in advance of the workshop or webinar, in addition to being available online once the training is completed. We use the Zoom meeting platform to host all webinars.
Accommodations can be requested when registering for the webinar or workshop online and will be accommodated with 72 hours notice. Please contact Emily Johnson at [email protected] to discuss any accommodation requests or questions you may have.
Utah Collections Preservation Schedule 2025
The Utah Collections Preservation Programming continues! In 2025, join the Museums Field Services team alongside our community partners (Utah Humanities and the Utah Historical Society) in southwestern Utah for a full calendar year of preventative conservation and collections preservation programming.
Each quarter, the Utah Collections Preservation program contains two workshops (Part A, Part B) and three webinars that center around a preservation theme.
2025 Workshops When and Where:
- 2/6/25 - McQuarrie Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, St. George (Access and Artifact Handling, Part A)
- 3/6/25 - Silver Reef, Leeds (Access and Artifact Handling, Part B)
- 4/3/25 - Kanab Museum, Kanab (Preservation in Storage and Display, Part A)
- 5/1/25 - St. George Art Museum, St. George (Preservation in Storage and Display, Part B)
- 8/7/25 - Southern Utah Museum of Art, Cedar City (Environment and Building Systems, Part A)
- 9/4/25 - Utah Tech Special Collections, St. George (Environment and Building Systems, Part B)
- 10/2/25 - Frontier Homestead State Park, Cedar City (Risk Management, Emergency Preparedness & Disaster Response, Part A)
- 11/6/25 - Cedar City Daughters of the Utah Pioneers, Cedar City (Risk Management, Emergency Preparedness & Disaster Response, Part B)
Workshops are in-person, full-day events and occur in two parts. Registration is free, but required to secure your place. Please note when registering that you will be expected to attend both Part A and Part B, as they relate to each other and build upon the previous workshop parts.
Webinars are online, free to attend, and take place on the third Thursday of every month from 11 a.m. - 1 p.m.
Questions?
Emily Johnson
Field Services Manager
Marie Desrochers
Outreach Conservator
