Westpoint Lighthouse
Visit the Westpoint Lighthouse Website
The Museum
The West Point Lighthouse Museum is located in the Cedar Dunes Provincial Park in West Point, Prince Edward Island. The lighthouse was first constructed in 1875 and is 67 feet 8 inches high. The lighthouse and dwelling has been restored using original blueprints. Housed on all four floors of the lighthouse, the museum’s collection consists of artifacts, photographs, and examples of actual lighthouse equipment to tell the story of Island lighthouses with particular emphasis on West Point.
What We Did
At the West Point Lighthouse the Community Museums Association team implemented a new filing system, complete with new registration forms. CMA also worked through a number of PastPerfect issues that the museum was experiencing. PastPerfect was reinstalled on West Point’s computer. As well, the new Digital Imaging software was purchased by the lighthouse and installed. The new filing system included reorganizing the already existing paper work, assigning accession numbers in the updated format to paper work bearing the old format, and listing all existing record of accessions and incoming loans in a register. Also, records were marked as deaccessioned for objects no longer in the collection and acquisition source information sheets were created for each past donor or acquisition source.
The team processed eighty-five artifacts. This included cataloguing, assigning and applying an accession number to each object, and a detailed condition report for each object. The artifacts were cleaned and photographed. The photographs were resized, edited and renamed according to their accession number.
The Artifacts
The four artifacts below represent only a small portion of what is currently on display at the West Point Lighthouse.
WP.1983.002.22
|
WP.1983.002.26
|
WP.1983.008.01
|
WP.1983.021.01
|
Click here to see more artifacts from the project