PastPerfect museum software logoIn the ten years since the Bonner Milltown History Center organized, oral histories, hundreds of articles, and thousands of photos have been donated. Keeping track of collections is a major responsibility of any museum and, over the years, BMHC has worked closely with both the University of Montana Archives and Special Collections department and the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula to ensure our recording methods are done appropriately.
 
Thanks to a Preserving Missoula County's History grant to purchase PastPerfect Museum Software, the task of collections recording will truly be up to professional standards. PastPerfect Museum Software is an application for collections archiving designed for museums. The cost of the software was over our budget, but now we will have the means of recording our collection and the ability to pair a photograph with each item. Once this step is accomplished, our dream making our collections available online and through the Montana Memory Project can be realized. Minie Smith and Judy Matson will head up the project to transfer our current entries and add the oral history and photo entries into the new software, a project which is estimated to take two years of volunteer time.