In 1982 the New Brunswick Museum, with partial financial assistance from the National Museums of Canada Museum Assistance Programme, embarked on a program to upgrade storage of natural history collections. Storage cabinets were purchased to accommodate the overcrowded collection; research collections were separated from educational and display materials; transfer of wet collections from 10% unbuffered formalin to 45% isopropyl alcohol was initiated; and cataloguing procedures were modified. It is expected that this program to improve the curation of the collections will continue for another three to five years. -- AATA