Scope and Content: The Commonwealth Museum, located at the site of the Massachusetts Archives at Columbia Point (Dorchester, Boston), opened a permanent exhibition on the history of Massachusetts in 2009. Based on facsimiles of Archives documentary and artifactual holdings, it also includes a treasurers gallery containing the first (vellum) leaves of the 1629 colonial and 1691 provincial charters and the 1780 Constitution, the vellum Massachusetts copy of the federal Bill of Rights, the Massachusetts  printed copy of the Declaration of Independence, and the Paul Revere copperplate engraving of the Boston Massacre. –In preparation for creating the display, the firm of Cambridge Seven Associates, Inc., engaged the services of Kathryn Myatt Carey, Nahant, Mass., conservator of works of art on papers, to describe exhibition requirements of the treasures and of several other original documents that at one time were considered for possible inclusion in the exhibition as originals.  Series consists of her loose-leaf compilation of condition reports, treatment proposals, and treatment cost estimates, along with correspondence relating to document encasements, and additional reports on artifacts among the Archives holdings compiled by Archaea Technica (Mimi Leveque, Waltham, Mass.). The report is heavily illustrated with color photographs of the archival objects under consideration.
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