[1] "Records that document the history and activities of Heritage Preservation from its very beginnings as the National Conservation Advisory Council and the National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property", including an archive of its website, were accessioned by and are made accessible by the Smithsonian Institution Archives.
Initiated in 1989, the project is a community-based effort to identify, document, and conserve outdoor sculpture in the United States.
Resources in continuing support of SOS!, a discontinued program, may be found on the subpage for the Foundation for Advancement in Conservation.
A second major project was a report produced in 2005 called the Heritage Health Index, which included data from more than 3,000 institutions, among them museums, historical societies, government archives, libraries, scientific organizations and universities.
[9] The survey found that some 612 million artifacts – from photographs and paintings to nature specimens and pottery – are at risk of deterioration because they are not cared for properly.