Artifact Collection
Scope and Contents
The Artifact Collection is an artificial collection created to describe various artifacts not part of another collection. The collection has been arranged into six series: Awards, Building Items, Buttons, Commemorative Plates, Logo Products and Merchandise, and Miscellaneous.
The Awards series contains the statues, plaques and certificates representing awards and commendations received by the museum, directors and architectural projects. The Building Items series contains models, items used during groundbreakings and other commemorative items related to buildings and renovations including the New Museum, Hamon Expansion, Horchow Auditorium & C3, gallery reorganization, and Eagle Family Plaza. The Buttons series contains various buttons and tags produced for exhibitions, programs and other activities. The Commemorative Plates are small decorative plates produced in conjunction with exhbitions as thank you gifts for docents. The Logo Products series contains prototype and final Arturo stuffed toys, products with the DMA logo, and products depicting DMA objects. The Miscellaneous series contains plaques from the Fair Park building, official gifts, and other miscellaneous items.
Dates
- Other: Date acquired: 07/15/2019
Conditions Governing Access
This collection is open for public research.
Researchers must make an appointment to view this collection; contact the archives at archives@DMA.org.
Extent
105 items (Collection is contained in 4 cartons, 5 various-sized boxed, 1 flat file drawer and 9 oversize items not in a container or the container they arrived in.) : 105 archival objects - 152 individual items
Language of Materials
English
Abstract
The Artifact Collection is an artificial collection created to describe various artifacts not part of another collection. The collection has been arranged into six series: Awards, Building Items, Buttons, Commemorative Plates, Logo Products and Merchandise, and Miscellaneous.
Arrangement
The collection has been arranged into six series: Awards, Building Items, Buttons, Commemorative Plates, Logo Products and Merchandise, and Miscellaneous. The Building Items series is further arranged into five subseries by building or project: New Museum, Hamon Expansion, Horchow Auditorium & C3 Renovation, Gallery Reorganization, and Eagle Family Plaza. The Buttons series is further arranged in three subseries: Exhibitions, Programs and Other. The Logo Products series is arranged further into three subseries: Arturo, DMA Logo Products and Merchandise depicting DMA objects.
Accruals
2012.012 - Building Material Samples and Models was merged into this collection during ArchivesSpace data cleanup activities, 25 Janauary 2022.
Processing Information
Collection reprocessed by Hillary Bober; processing completed 15 July 2019.
Additional description/notes were added for DACS compliance and ArchivesSpace local usage guidelines in 2021.
- Title
- Finding Aid to the Artifacts Collection
- Author
- Hillary Bober
- Date
- 2019-07-15
- Description rules
- Describing Archives: A Content Standard
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Revision Statements
- 2021-09-22: Museum Archives collection number assigned as identifier following new protocol. Accession number was 2019.29.
Repository Details
Part of the Dallas Museum of Art Archives Repository