Did You Know? Preserving History, One Piece or Poster at a Time By: Leah Witherow CSPM Curator of Hitsory May is National Historic Preservation Month. A time when museums, libraries and cultural institutions around the country highlight the importance of preserving historic buildings, spaces and objects that are meaningful to their communities. CSPM is proud to collect, preserve and share a vast archive that documents Pikes Peak regional history. The museum cares for more than 80,000 historic photographs and 6,500 cubic feet of manuscripts, cartographic materials, ephemera and papers. The primary goal is to preserve these materials into perpetuity so that future generations will continue to find relevance in them. To preserve collections long term, museum staffers rehouse items in archival sleeves and boxes as appropriate and monitor the temperature and humidity of storage areas to ensure stable climatic conditions. From the CSPM Collection CSPM exercises best practices for collections care and wears gloves while handling objects. Preservation is an ongoing practice and is a central consideration during all of the museum’s work. pg. 6
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