Work Continues on Con Foster Collection of 4,000 Artifacts
By Ross Boissoneau | June 16, 2019
The City of Traverse City no longer has its own history museum, but it does own some 4,000 local historical artifacts. Cataloging the collection is still underway, as is the deaccessioning process for Native American pieces in order to comply with the federal Native American Graves and Repatriation Act. What comes next is up for debate.
Many of the relics from Traverse City’s history had been displayed at the Con Foster Museum on the grounds of Clinch Park (the museum was named for the city’s one-time mayor and city commissioner, who was instrumental in starting the collection). When the museum closed after some 70 years (later becoming the ...
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