I’ve been
working on a big project here at the museum for the past couple of months, and
I can finally share it with you. The
National Museum of Civil War Medicine’s artifact collection is now online! I’ve been advocating for this feature for a
couple of years now, so I am very pleased to see it finally available to the
public. Now anyone who wants to find out
about a particular artifact at the NMCWM can simply search for it online. This should be a great help to students,
educators, re-enactors, and researchers who want information, and even images,
of our artifacts.
Basically, this is a part of the PastPerfect Museum Software artifact
data base which I use to keep track of the collection. It is some of the artifact information
which has been entered by all of the museum’s curators who have worked
here. I can update the images and
information, and add new artifacts as needed though, so the amount of
information contained in this online data base will continue to expand.
Go ahead and take a look at it here.
You can
search by category, by keywords, or even by a person’s name if you have something
specific in mind. There is also a “Random
Images” button you can click to see pictures of a random group of artifacts
from the collection.
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| Even though I know what is in our collection, I find it interesting to see what comes up in this search! |
I hope
you have fun exploring the artifact collection of the NMCWM, and that you learn
a little something in the process!
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