TILLAMOOK — The Tillamook County Pioneer Museum is looking for volunteers to help with a large-scale inventory project to digitize records and catalogue its collection of 55,000 artifacts and 20,000 pictures.

The goal of the project is to improve record keeping and object storage to make the historical collection more accessible. Eventually the museum will also need to rehouse thousands of artifacts to a new location.

“This project is necessary because at the moment we don’t have a comprehensive grasp on what we have in our holdings and what stories they may be able to tell about our community and region’s history,” said Peyton Tracy, the museum’s collections manager. “Our collection is exceptionally large for a museum of our size, in part due to the dedicated support of our community. We want to be able to preserve it to the highest standards and make use of it to share our collective history with the public.”

The museum is asking for help with the first phase of the project, digitizing collections records. Anyone interested in volunteering to help with data entry, is encouraged to contact exhibits@tcpm.org.

The Tillamook County Pioneer Museum was founded in 1935 by Oregon pioneers.