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Show Moab Museum gains $2450 in grant money The Moab Museum has been given a $2450 grant from HIW's Institute of Museum Services Pro- . csm. The grant money wi3 provide modern stor-j$e stor-j$e shelving, filing cab-Efts, cab-Efts, bug proof storage cabinets, an outdoor shelter shel-ter and other items to safeguard the growing laseum collections, Marian Mar-ian Pierson, president of lie museum board of directors, reported. Volunteer Vol-unteer labor will match the grant money by assembling . the shelving and shelter, and cataloguing cata-loguing the backlog of catalogued museum collections. Mrs. Pierson says this will allow the museum to better protect and preserve pre-serve its collections. As the Moab area draws near its centennial of settlement, settle-ment, the museum will be looking for better ways to serve the community and obtain more items to add to the important collection already catalogued and available to the public. "We are looking for significant historical items like t!he recently acquired and famed 'Yellow Circle' from Howard Balsley's uranium mining days," she said. Old photographs photo-graphs of the area, regional region-al mineral specimens, fossils and Ute Indivian artifacts are among those museum items most needed need-ed at the present to round out the collections. A membership drive will begin in November to bring in needed funding in addition to the basic funding already provided by Grand County. |