Historical Society of Federal Way receives grant

Published 3:56 pm Friday, March 20, 2015

The Historical Society of Federal Way was recently awarded a collections care grant of $5,100 from 4Culture.

4Culture is the cultural services agency for King County providing programs, financial support and services in the arts, public art, heritage and historic preservation.

Marie Sciacqua, the society’s collection chairman, applied for the grant to hire a professional curator to assist and organize the society’s 3D artifacts. The descriptive information about the artifacts will be input into Past Perfect, which is a museum software.

Hilary Pittenger was awarded the contract. She received her Bachelor of Arts, history in June 2008 and July 2010 received her Master of Arts, museology, both from the University of Washington. She started her own business, the Evergreen Museum Consulting. She also is the White River Valley Museum’s curator of collections.

Pittenger and her husband reside in Federal Way.