Museum Collections Center Tour

The Statewide Museum Collections Center is a working collections management facility and its “open storage” concept allows tour participants  to go behind the scenes for a close-up look at the diversity of materials  acquired by cultural specialists throughout the state and how these historic  objects are stored and preserved. The tour will start in our public exhibit area  and take visitors through our collections processing rooms and 120,000 sq. ft.  collections vault. Tour may also include the Department Archives and  Archaeology Lab, as staffing permits; tour stops are subject to change.

Plan your visit  

o Tours are available by appointment only. Tour groups must have a minimum of 4 visitors up to a  maximum of 20 visitors. Due to current staffing levels, we can only schedule one tour per available time.  

o Tour appointments need to be made at least two weeks in advance.  

o Tours are…