Gallery Talk- Preserving Your Family History: Caring for Family Heirlooms

Family heirlooms are an important part of any family's history as well as an invaluable source of information. Caring for them can be a challenge for any family historian. Learn simple, effective techniques for preserving and handling family heirlooms, documents, and photographs while still keeping them accessible for research and display. Tamera Hemmerlein, Director of Local History Services, Indiana Historical Society, will present a Gallery Talk entitled "Preserving Your Family History: Caring for Family Heirlooms", on Friday, May 8 at 11 am at the Beardsley Discovery Center. 

Spink Arms, interior, 1921 

Bass Photo Co Collection, Indiana Historical Society

Gallery Talks feature a twenty-minute discussion on an object/artwork within the Ruthmere collection or a person or event in local history. Our Gallery Talks are free and open to the public.