"The New Zealand Historic Places Trust’s auditing and assessment of all the objects in its properties nationwide continues to go from strength to strength. When the cataloguing project started early in 2008 it had been estimated there were around 35,000 objects in the NZHPT’s collection. This was based on paper records and estimates by property staff. The cataloguing team has now entered almost 60,000 items into Vernon – a museum-quality database – with an estimated 10,000 further items to be catalogued. The audit process has been thorough, recording and photographing each object and adding them to the database. Associated documentation has also been scanned and added to Vernon.Once all the objects have been catalogued it is hoped that the collection will be made as accessible as possible to the public in the future. NZHPT is very grateful to the NZ Lottery Grants Board Environment & Heritage Committee and the Four Winds Foundation for its support of the Collections Project." From the Historic Places February newsletter, read the whole newsletter here. (the parrot, which was once a pet at the estate, is from the Highwic Collection)
