May Considered Museum Month For The City of Peterborough
/Peterborough Museum and Archives is celebrating “May is Museum Month” and encourages residents and visitors to plan a visit to a museum to learn about local heritage and culture and participate in programs, special events and exhibitions, announced Monday.
This year's theme is ‘Museums for Education and Research,’ which aims to highlight museums' pivotal role in learning, innovation and knowledge sharing.
The Peterborough Museum and Archives is designated as a 'Category A Collecting Institution,' meaning it collects, preserves and makes cultural property accessible to the public through exhibitions, research and online.
Accordingly, the Peterborough Museum & Archives manages:
over 45,000 objects in its artifact collections
over 400,000 original photographic negatives, 2,000 fonds and over 3,300 linear feet of archival material in its archival collections
the care and conservation of all objects and archival material in our collection.