Carrie Meyer Email and Phone Number

In June 2016, the Education and Curatorial departments were combined under my direction. With this change I have continued the duties I had as the Curator but have also absorbed the Education initiatives of the museum as well.Direct all curatorial and education functions of the museum including direct supervision of 5 full-time and 3 part-time staff, 20-24 interns annually, and 20 volunteers, exhibition development of annual improvements to the permanent exhibitions and at least 5 internally developed exhibitions annually, liaison with over 15 institutional partners regarding rental of traveling exhibitions and object loans, administered strategic planning initiatives and federal grant funds toward the complete digitization of a 1.1 million image Photo Archive, coordinate 20-30 incoming and outgoing object loans annually and implement preservation plans and procedures for the 60,000+ object collection and 9,000+ object collection of rare books, documents, currency and coins. In addition, I develop and administer the annual department and exhibition budgets, as well as a CAP assessment, federal grants and special project funds as available, act as ambassador and advocate for the department and the museum with community partners and media outlets, contribute to strategic planning and fund-raising initiatives, and conduct workshops, distance learning programs, and educational lectures for community partners, adults, youth, and Boy Scouts. The department serves 40,000 K-12 students through field trips annually, and also hosts digital learning programs, lectures, exhibition programming, camps, scouts, and community engagement activities.

Directed all curatorial functions of the museum including direct supervision of 2 full-time and 3 part-time staff, 16-18 interns annually, and 12 volunteers, exhibition development of annual improvements to the permanent exhibitions and at least 5 internally developed exhibitions annually, liaison with over 15 institutional partners regarding rental of traveling exhibitions and object loans, administered strategic planning initiatives and federal grant funds toward the complete digitization of a 1.1 million image Photo Archive, coordinated 20-30 incoming and outgoing object loans annually and implemented preservation plans and procedures for the 60,000+ object collection and 8,000+ object collection of rare books, documents, currency and coins. In addition, I developed and administered the annual department and exhibition budgets, as well as a CAP assessment, federal grants and special project funds as available, acted as ambassador and advocate for the department and the museum with community partners and media outlets, contributed to strategic planning and fund-raising initiatives, and conducted workshops, distance learning programs, and educational lectures for community partners, adults, youth, and Boy Scouts.

Responsible for exhibition production under direction of the Curator. I conducted research, wrote text and labels, chose graphics, and assisted with installation for two 5,000-7,000 square foot permanent exhibitions. I also assisted with the production of exhibition catalogs and promotional materials for two 5,000-7,000 square foot permanent exhibitions. My responsibilities included serving on the exhibition, special events, and marketing committees, and authoring and distributing visitor evaluation surveys related to museum services and exhibitions.

Completed collection management activities for a 20,000 object collection including accessioning, cataloging, creating storage, processing loans, marking and condition reporting. Also assisted with a month-long restoration project of two 19th century wagons and with planning related to the transfer of collections objects, equipment, and records to a new facility. During two years of employment, I planned and installed two large temporary exhibits and several smaller permanent and temporary exhibits.