Volcanoes park museum artifacts, archives moved to safety
June 21, 2018 | In the PressFrom Honolulu Star Advertiser (http://www.staradvertiser.com/2018/06/21/hawaii-news/volcanoes-park-museum-artifacts-archives-moved-to-safety/)
National Park Service staff moved its collection of artifacts and exhibit features from Jaggar Museum at Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park on Tuesday due to all of the dramatic changes taking place at the summit of Kilauea.
Although the building is damaged, the artifacts are now in a safe place, NPS officials said.
“The process of removing art, artifacts and informative displays from Jaggar Museum (Tuesday) really drives home how much has changed in the park and at the summit of Kilauea since late April, and how much damage the recent activity has done,” said Jessica Ferracane of Hawai‘i Volcanoes National Park in an email. “We are thankful there was little seismic activity at the summit (Tuesday), and we were able to safely remove and store the items.”
The museum and archive collection at the park consists of more than 31,000 objects under the classifications of archeology, ethnology, history, biology, paleontology and geology, plus 1,350 linear feet of records, including documents and audio-visual material. Besides park publications, there are postcards, books, fine art paintings and the registers for the Volcano House, a hotel located on the park grounds.
One of the artifacts moved to safety Tuesday is a suit worn by U.S. Geological Survey geologist George Ulrich, who survived a fall into pahoehoe lava in 1985.
