"You go to botanic gardens and they have a staff to take care of their historic collections," he said.

"This grove is an historic collection, and it ought to be taken care of as well, but they don't even have a gardener here."

Displays of the historic collections are mounted whenever possible.

The process of rationalizing and rehousing the historic collections is not only long but complex.

The concert will be performed on rare and beautiful instruments from the museum's historic collection.

Both those historic collections remain part of the Forsythe Collection.

For me the excitement and challenge comes with exploring the historic collection from the vantage point of today.

Following his death, Tallman's historic collection of movie warplanes and camera planes was sold off.

Most of the historic collections have been donated by Nelson residents.