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The Port Townsend Marine Science Center was awarded a $151,599 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program to prototype and evaluate pop-up exhibitions. The grant will fund the development of three temporary exhibits to test and refine the center's exhibition master plan for its new downtown location. The project aims to ensure the permanent exhibits meet community needs and resonate with visitors by engaging stakeholder groups and...

The North Carolina Aquarium Society will provide conservation and sustainability education through its new Future Waters exhibit and related programming, funded by a $669,152 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The Aquarium will develop a 750-gallon habitat exhibit featuring sustainable fisheries and an interactive coral rearing area. Paid interns will interpret these displays while assisting aquarists. A two-day symposium...

The Mariners' Museum received a $830,061 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (SAT) program (CFDA 15.929) to catalog and digitize over 30,000 photographic negatives from seven collections documenting the history of maritime transportation, shipbuilding, the U.S. Navy, and maritime commerce in coastal Virginia. The museum will hire a digitization specialist and photography intern to digitize and store these at-risk...

The Long Island Children's Museum will implement the second phase of development of a new permanent exhibition titled "Saltwater Stories: The Sea and Me" through a $506,890 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program. As part of the project, the museum will create floorplans and renderings for exhibit components, identify interactive elements, develop educational programs and resources for engagement, and create...

The Independence Seaport Museum was awarded a $108,724 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures program to restore the hull of the cruiser Olympia. Using surface piercing and cofferdam technology, the museum will clean, scale to bare metal, and apply protective epoxy and paint to a section of the historic warship's hull that has suffered extensive oxidation and deterioration caused by abrasion. The conservation project aims to...

This Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program supports the Long Island Children's Museum in developing a new permanent exhibition titled "Saltwater Stories: The Sea and Me." The $503,655 grant will enable the museum to fabricate exhibition components, develop educational programs and website content, and evaluate the installed exhibition to make adjustments. The exhibition will engage families and schools...

The Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture (Inpeace) will design the Loko I'a traveling exhibit under a $117,482 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The exhibit will provide Native Hawaiian youth and families an opportunity to learn about loko i'a, traditional Hawaiian fishponds that are a central land management practice, through interactive and hands-on activities incorporating observational, problem-solving approaches. Inpeace will collect...

The Whaling Museum Society Inc., doing business as The Whaling Museum and Education Center, received a $150,025 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The grant award supports the museum's fabrication, installation, and evaluation of a 2-year special exhibition that explores ocean-inspired myths and monsters and their contemporary connections. The project includes developing an array of onsite and offsite...

The Columbia River Maritime Museum will receive $1.2 million under a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to preserve the historic Lightship Columbia. Funded through the IMLS's Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929), the project will involve towing the lightship to a Portland shipyard for preservation work from October 2021 through September 2022. Specifically, the museum will install modern bilge pumps and alarms, inspect the electrical system, replace...

The Department of Transportation Maritime Administration awarded a $214,452 Project Grant to Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. under the Assistance to Small Shipyards program (CFDA 20.814) to acquire a Wood-Mizer wide slab industrial sawmill, a JLG 600AJ HC3 articulating boom lift, and a JLG H430AJ hybrid articulating boom lift. This equipment will facilitate the efficiency, cost-effectiveness, and quality of the museum's domestic ship construction and restoration activities for commercial and federal...