The Dunedin City Council-owned museum reopened in December 2012, after its $37.5million redevelopment was completed.
In a recent report to the museum board, museum acting director Cam McCracken, said that "good progress" had been made on the large Collections Legacy project.
"The legacy projects are proceeding extremely well," he added.
The reorganisation, seismic protection and cataloguing of items in the museum's large object store had been completed.
"We have processed many thousands of items into the collection", which were part of a six-year backlog, Mr McCracken said.
Three years of material had yet to be processed, but plans to complete the overall processing project within a year were still on track.
The work began about August last year.
Dunedin City Council group manager Ara Toi Nick Dixon told the board he had long experience in looking at museum storage areas, and was impressed with the progress achieved.
Mr McCracken said work had also continued on the photographic digitisation and cataloguing of the Rockliff Collection.
A talk by Prof Murray Rae, of the University of Otago, titled "Great Scots, Thomas Burns and His Vision for A City", and a Waitangi Day tour by historian Bill Dacker were among the most popular recent programme activities at the settlers museum.
A total 491 people had attended the 17 programme events, a report to the museum board said this week.
