Museum and Archival Services

Museum Specialist Hank Kratt organizes boxes in the ACIM storage (NPS, SEAC)

SEAC's Division Museum and Archival Services provides the following services:

• Manages park archeological museum collections (accountability, preservation, conservation, and security) for parks in the Southeast Region of the National Park Service
• Maintains accession and cataloging information for park collections managed at SEAC
• Manages the backlog cataloging program for park archeological collections, both by SEAC staff and under cooperative agreements with universities
• Maintains the portion of the servicewide ICMS (Interior Collection Management System) database for park archeological collections managed at SEAC
• Manages the park cellulose nitrate film collections for the Southeast Region of the National Park Service

Compactors in the ACIM storage (NPS, SEAC)

Collections Facilities

• The Center's archives contain records of archeological investigations from 60 parks in the Southeast Regional Office
• SEAC maintains 4,203 square feet of dedicated museum storage for archeological collections and archives, with separate climate control and security

Did You Know...

SEAC's archeological collection comprises over nine million objects and archival documents from National Park Service sites in the Southeast Region!

Museum Technician Charlie Sproul cleans shelves in ACIM storage (NPS, SEAC)

Technical Assistance

SEAC museum and archival employees participate in numerous NPS assistance roles, including participating in Collection Management Plan teams, assisting park units with museum inventories and annual reports, providing photographs and collections documentation to scholars and the general public, identifying and dating artifacts recovered from parks, and performing limited research into accessions for parks, researchers, and the general public.

SEAC maintains a list of suppliers of NPS/SEAC standard archeological curatorial supplies, including bags and boxes, acid-free box inserts, and a range of other packing and storage supplies. SEAC provides these supplies in limited quantities to parks when possible. Our staff members also have special expertise in the NPS standard ICMS database software and provides technical assistance to park curatorial staff, cooperators, and contractors.