Boston archaeology museum

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The Program was one of institutions selected from a national pool of applicants. The IMLS Museums for America grant supports projects that strengthen the ability of an individual museum to benefit the public by providing high-quality, inclusive learning experiences, serving as community anchors and essential partners in addressing community needs, and by preserving and providing access to the collections entrusted to its care.

These artifacts not only include the household artifacts from these families and institutions, but also include Massachusett Native creations like stone tools and pottery, and there was at least one person, an unnamed black girl, enslaved by the Long family who owned the Long Ordinary. These collections appear to be the largest and most diverse group of objects related to the first decades of Boston's colonial history in existence.

It is incredibly important that the complete story of these places include the experiences and stories of the women, children, and free and enslaved Native and Black people living there. These sites were surveyed in the s, and there is no detailed or digital catalog of the artifacts recovered making them inaccessible to researchers and the general public.

This project will create a new digital catalog for each assemblage and photograph each artifact for a free online artifact database. At the end of the project in , the Archaeology Program will launch new web pages for each collection on their website, including the digital catalogs and artifact image database, and create a new online and in person public exhibit at the City Archaeology Lab in West Roxbury.

It is the hope of the City Archaeology Program that by completing this project years before the City's th anniversary in , this data and these artifacts can be fully incorporated into the celebrations, research, publications, exhibits, and interpretive products to be created by Boston's many historical and research institutions.