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This blog will give you a peek into the stacks and storage areas of Yellowstone National Park's library, archives, and museum collections. We'll highlight some of our biggest treasures, show-off quirky staff favorites, let you know about newly acquired collections, and perhaps ask for help with a few mysteries. Along the way, we hope to give Park staff, visitors, and all those who love Yellowstone a place to reminisce and share the unique story of Yellowstone. If you do not see a new post, you may need to refresh your browser.

Preserving the Past: Paper Conservation Training at Yellowstone’s Heritage and Research Center

November 18, 2025 Posted by: HRC Staff

In 2024, the Heritage and Research Center (HRC) at Yellowstone National Park welcomed two distinguished paper conservation experts for a hands-on training that brought new life to some of the park’s most fragile historical documents

Preservation, PaperConservation, MuseumCollection

 

Restoring the Wrecker

October 31, 2024 Posted by: Lena Muldoon, NPS Museum Technician

Describes the history and present-day conservation of a utility vehicle used in Yellowstone National Park.

Preservation, museum, history, Vehicles, roads

 

Dust to Glory - Reviving Historic Vehicles Through Careful Cleaning

March 22, 2024 Posted by: Hayley Tuggle

Yellowstone Museum Technician Hayley Tuggle outlines a project to clean a 1917 historic vehicle housed in Yellowstone's museum collection.

museum,preservation,historicvehicles, museum, Preservation

 

A Virtual Peek into the Yellowstone Maps, Plans, and Drawings Collection

July 07, 2020 Posted by: Kimberlee Roberts, Archives Technician

Post describes archival map and drawing processing and digitization for access.

archives, Maps, Preservation, Digitization, Access