Caring for your treasured family collections:

EP Museum staff to provide update and tips

Jessica Michak and Mikaela Fundaun, Estes Park Museum curators, will speak to our club Thursday, March 21, at the regular noon meeting. They will provide an update on the Estes Park Museum and provide advice on how we can care for our own home collections.

The Estes Park Museum conducts activities that preserve, share and respect the unique history of Estes Park. Currently being remodeled, the future Collections and Research Facility will give Estes Park Museum staff space for over 30,000 locally significant artifacts and a place for visitors and researchers to study their significance.

Michak, Curator of Collections, oversees more than 30,000 objects, handles research requests, and is overseeing the museum-wide collections move. Fascinated with museums since childhood, she received a BA in history and anthropology from Clarion University of Pennsylvania, and then a MA in public history at Appalachian State University in North Carolina. From 2012 to 2017, she worked as an archivist and the lead archival records processor for Deadwood History, Inc., in Deadwood, South Dakota.

Fundaun, Curator of Interpretation, oversees the permanent and temporary exhibitions as well as programming. With a passion for history and museums, she earned a BA in anthropology from the University of Wyoming and then served as curator at Deadwood History, Inc., caring for the artifact collection for two museums and a historic house museum. She completed her education with a MA in museum studies from the Cooperstown Graduate Program in Cooperstown, New York, gaining a variety of experience at institutions such as The Fenimore Art Museum, The Farmer’s Museum and the Arkell Museum.