We appreciate your interest in helping us preserve Johnstown’s history! Heritage Johnstown maintains a large object collection and archive. The object collection houses textiles, garments, 1889 Flood relics, iron and steel industrial items, and items relating to Johnstown businesses. The archive houses collections on all three major floods, early Johnstown history, industrial photographs, and records. Our collections and archive are an invaluable resource to researchers and form the basis of our permanent and temporary museum exhibitions.
Here is how we go about accepting donations of objects, photographs, documents, or other materials. We ask that you do not mail or drop off items to us without inquiring first.
Please note that we will not purchase artifacts, and cannot guarantee that donated items will be on display.
There are some items that do not meet our collections needs (despite being really interesting!) These include:
Please send us an email using the form below to inquire about donating an artifact, document, photograph or other item. Include as much information as you can about the item, and we’ll get back in touch with you as soon as possible. Again, thank you for your interest in history and for thinking of us!