Nominate an Artifact for the VA's Top 10 Endangered Artifacts Program

Date postedDecember 31, 2024
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2025 marks the 14th anniversary of the Virginia Association of Museums' successful Virginia's Top 10 Endangered Artifacts program which as benefited over 200 institutions to date, shedding light on the importance of Virginia museums and the expense and expertise necessary to care for the unique historic and cultural items in their care. Nominations are accepted from January 1, 2025 to January 24, 2025.

Then, the public is invited to vote for their favorite endangered artifact in an online voting competition happening February 10, 2025, to February 28, 2025 (by 11:59 PM EST). The artifact receiving the most votes will be awarded $1,000 in conservation funding. After a period of public voting, VAM will award $4,000 in conservation funding to ten items at the 2025 Annual Conference in Blacksburg, VA March 15 - 18, 2025.

Peak at a Past Winner from Blacksburg

Virginia Tech Corps of Cadets Museum (Blacksburg, VA)
"Steamer Trunk from Preston and Olin Institute"; 1872 
This Civil War trunk has a piece of Preston and Olin Institute stationary pasted inside, hand-dated 1872, the year Virginia Agricultural and Mechanical College (VAMC) - the foundation of Virginia Tech - was awarded start-up money from the Morrill Land Act, enabling the changeover from Preston and Olin to VAMC, a Virginia state school. The trunk is a truly rare, artifact, and is one of only a handful of historical objects still in existence from the very birth of VAMC. This year, 2022, is the university’s sesquicentennial, and the discovery of the trunk is a highlight for the Corps of Cadets and the University. It's importance as a concrete example of the very foundation of Virginia Tech, and the school's inaugural class of 1872, cannot be stated enough.

Click here, to learn more about the VA's Top 10 Endangered Artifacts Program!

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