Iowa Conservation And Preservation Consortium

06/17/2026

📦 Last call for registration!

Registration for **SOS 2026: Stronger Together: Partnerships in Preservation** closes this Friday.

Join us at the historic Butterworth Center and Deere-Wiman House in Moline for a day of learning, collaboration, and practical preservation strategies.

Spend the day exploring digital preservation, collaborative stewardship, emergency response, and collections care with colleagues from museums, libraries, archives, and cultural organizations across the region.

✔ Expert speakers
✔ Hands-on IMALERT salvage activity
✔ Networking with preservation professionals
✔ Box lunch included
✔ Historic property tour
✔ Vendors and preservation resources

Whether you're preserving a single collection or supporting an entire institution, you'll leave with new ideas, new connections, and practical tools to take home.

📍 Moline, Illinois
🗓 Friday, June 26
⏰ Check-in begins at 8:00 AM

Don't miss your chance to join us—register by Friday!

For more information visit our website at
https://www.iowaconserveandpreserve.org/events

06/12/2026

💬 Post 4: Interactive Engagement Post

Finish the sentence:

✨ Museums Are ____________.

We'll start:

🏛️ Museums are storytellers.
🤝 Museums are community builders.
📚 Museums are keepers of knowledge.
💡 Museums are places of discovery.
❤️ Museums are connections to the people and stories that came before us.

Now it's your turn!

How would you complete the sentence?

Share your answer in the comments and help us celebrate Iowa Museum Week.

06/11/2026

Join us on Monday as Amanda Leigh, MLIS, CARST, Administrative Assistant with ICPC and Julia Wells, MLIS, Assistant Librarian & Museum Curator at Iowa Masonic Library and Museum highlight how our organization supports collections care through training, resources, and collaboration.

More information can be found at our website: iowaconserveandpreserve.org

Museums Are Trusted

Museums are trusted stewards of our shared history, and that work is strengthened when professionals learn from and support one another.

Join us next Monday, June 15, for IMA Plugged-In: Connecting, Progressing, and Supporting Preservation in Iowa. Learn how the Iowa Conservation and Preservation Consortium (ICPC) advances preservation practices, supports collections care, and helps museums across Iowa protect the stories and objects entrusted to them.

Sponsored by Western Illinois University Museum Studies Graduate Program

👉 Join the Plugged-In mailing list once to receive Zoom details: iowamuseums.org/pluggedin

06/10/2026

🤝 Post 3: Preservation in Action

Museums Are... Preservation in Action.

Behind every exhibit, archive box, artifact, photograph, and historic building is a commitment to preserving Iowa's stories for future generations.

But preservation doesn't happen alone.

It takes museum professionals, archivists, librarians, conservators, volunteers, and community partners working together to care for collections, share knowledge, and strengthen access to our shared cultural heritage.

At ICPC, we're proud to support this work through education, resources, collaboration, and events like SOS 2026: Stronger Together: Partnerships in Preservation.

This Iowa Museum Week, we celebrate the people behind the scenes whose dedication keeps Iowa's stories alive.

06/09/2026

📸 Post 2: Community Memory for Everyone

Museums Are... Community Memory for Everyone.

📸 A photograph tucked away in a family album.
📜 A diary that captures a moment in time.
🏠 A historic building that has watched generations come and go.
🎙️ An oral history that preserves a voice that might otherwise be lost.

Museums, archives, libraries, and cultural heritage organizations help connect people with the stories that shape our communities. They preserve the objects, places, and experiences that help us understand where we've been and inspire where we're going.

This Iowa Museum Week, we're celebrating the people and institutions working every day to make Iowa's history accessible to all.

What Iowa museum, archive, library, or historic site has left a lasting impression on you?

06/05/2026

🍩 Museums Are... Full of Holes (and That's a Good Thing)

Happy National Donut Day! 🍩

Did you know museums and archives spend a lot of time dealing with holes?

Holes in historical records.
Holes in community memory.
Holes in provenance.
Sometimes even holes from insects, water damage, or wear and tear.

Museums Are... Filling the Gaps.

Every artifact preserved, photograph identified, oral history recorded, and collection cared for helps connect missing pieces of Iowa's story.

As we head into Iowa Museum Week, we're celebrating the museums, archives, libraries, and cultural heritage organizations working every day to preserve the stories that might otherwise be lost.

Now for the important question:

🍩 Sprinkles or no sprinkles?

05/27/2026

BOARD… BUT NOT BORED. 📋✨

ICPC is looking for future board members, and we promise it involves considerably more collaboration, preservation enthusiasm, and coffee-fueled ideas than the phrase “board meeting” usually suggests.

Whether you’re a seasoned professional, emerging preservationist, student, or someone passionate about supporting Iowa’s cultural heritage community, we’d love to connect with you. Find out more by visiting our website: iowaconserveandpreserve.org

Help shape:
🖼️ Conferences & programming
📚 Preservation resource access
🚨 Emergency response support
🤝 Statewide partnerships
🌱 The future of ICPC

Attend the conference. Join the conversation. Then help carry the work forward alongside the current ICPC team.

📍 S.O.S. Save Our Stuff 2026
📅 June 26, 2026
📌 Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House

Come curious. Leave connected.

05/22/2026

Current preservation strategy for people who haven’t registered for SOS 2026 yet:
🫣
“Maybe if I ignore the registration long enough, I’ll simply drift into the conference through archival osmosis.”

Unfortunately, that is not an approved collections care method.

Registration is still needed. 😌

Join us June 26 for:
✔ Preservation case studies
✔ Disaster response activities
✔ Digitization projects
✔ Networking
✔ Venue Tour
✔ Vendors
✔ Enough preservation conversations to fully rehydrate an archivist’s soul

📍 Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House
🎟 Register on our website at www.iowaconserveandpreserve.org/
before your “I’ll do it later” pile achieves permanent records status.

05/17/2026

The full speaker lineup for S.O.S. 2026 is here!

Join the Iowa Conservation and Preservation Consortium on Friday, June 26, 2026, at the Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House in Moline, Illinois, for a full day of presentations, collaboration, practical preservation strategies, and networking.

Stronger Together: Partnerships in Preservation Presenters include:

• Legal Foundations of Collections Care: Navigating Museum, Cultural, and Educational Property Laws — David Bright

• Opening the Door to Local History: Digitizing Real Estate Records to Expand Access and Preservation — Tara Templeman & Jeff Kiley

• Saving Our Sounds: Preserving the Fredlo Recording Studio Collection — Kathryn Whalen & Neal Smith

• Collective Stewardship in Practice: Leveraging International Partnerships to Address Collection Duplication and Materials Preservation — Anna Tanalski

• IMALERT: Emergency Response and Hands-On Salvage Activity — Amy Groskopf, Christina Kastell, Cindy Opitz & Giselle Simon

• Tour: The Deere-Wiman Property – 153 Years Old and Still Making History — Jan Stoffer

Registration includes refreshments, lunch, and more!

Registration and details: www.iowaconserveandpreserve.org/events/event-two-w7zrh-s4xbg-nypkl-7f2me

05/13/2026

🌿 The new ICPC website is live, and so is registration for S.O.S. 2026!

Join us on June 26, 2026, at the Butterworth Center & Deere-Wiman House for a full day centered on this year’s theme:

Stronger Together: Partnerships in Preservation.

Explore the updated site, learn more about ICPC, and view conference information here:
https://www.iowaconserveandpreserve.org/events

CONNECT. PROGRESS. SUPPORT.