Keeping Traditions Alive

The Wild Wooly Spinners of the West, a hand-spinning guild that draws spinners from all over the Four Corners area, met at the Animas Museum on Saturday for a fun day of spinning. If you would like to learn about the history of spinning, how textiles are made, or even try your hand on a drop spindle, drop by the Museum on Saturday, February 26th between 10 am and 2pm.

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http://www.360durango.com/Attractions/AnimasHistoricalMuseum.html

Space Savers

The heart of the Collections area is the Space Saver system. Installed as part of the Home for History project, the Space Savers store photos, archives, and artifacts free from dust, light, and other potentially harmful effects. Each shelf in the Space Saver system is labeled so that an artifact can be quickly retrieved for exhibit or research needs. The row and shelf location of every artifact is tracked in the Collections database. Over the next few posts, we'll trace what happens to an artifact before it finds a home in the Space Saver.

Behind the Scenes

What goes on behind this closed door? We'll be posting more about the collections work that goes on behind the scenes at the Animas Museum.

If you arrived here on our website, you probably noticed that it is completely different! Much gratitude goes out to volunteers Susan Jones and Sheila Niblick for designing and creating this great new look for the museum! If you haven't checked it out yet, go to www.animasmuseum.org ~