Cooperative Agreement P16AP00263

The San Diego Museum of Man will reimagine and update its existing "Race: Are We So Different" exhibit with $460,013 in funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America (MFA) program. Under the two-year project grant award beginning September 2021, the Museum will comprehensively redesign the exhibit content and develop new interactive elements with community input. The updated exhibit will expand on themes of biology, social history and personal...

The Barona Band of Mission Indians received a $174,000 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Native American/Native Hawaiian Museum Services Program (CFDA 45.308) to create and install an animated short film entitled "Sinyohow and the Twins." This film will serve as a sequel to the tribe's award-winning multi-sensory Kumeyaay/Diegueno creation story film and exhibit, connecting local Native youth and visitors with ancient Kumeyaay stories and...

The Staten Island Museum received a $496,921 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) to build a collaborative approach to the stewardship of the museum's Native American and Indigenous collections. Through this project, the museum will work directly with Lenape representatives to catalog the Lenape archaeology collection of nearly 3,500 artifacts found on Staten Island and surrounding areas. The grant will support the hiring of a part-time...

This Cooperative Agreement, awarded by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) under the Cultural and Paleontological Resources Management program (CFDA 15.224), provides $398,703.41 in funding to the University of New Mexico's Office of Contract Archeology (OCA UNM) for a two-part research project. The first goal is to conduct an intensive archaeological survey of the Cornudas Mountains in southern New Mexico, which are known to contain a diversity of archaeological sites and petroglyphs. OCA UNM...

The Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (IMA) was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program. The grant will fund a comprehensive consultation process to review the museum's Native Arts of the Americas collection, which includes 1,515 cultural items potentially comprising unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. The IMA will work with three subject...

The Cincinnati Museum Center received a $499,685 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. Through this funding, the Museum Center will develop and design a new permanent exhibition, the Indigenous Peoples Gallery, which will explore the region's long history of human habitation, from earliest Native American societies to the tribal nations still residing in the central Ohio Valley. The project will build...

The San Diego Natural History Museum received a $495,403 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will fund a two-year project to revitalize the museum's unique but underutilized marine invertebrates collection. Key activities include hiring a full-time project manager to lead a team of volunteers in collating and digitizing specimen catalogs into a central database, inventorying the...

The Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology received a $352,152 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to purchase new compact storage and rehouse its ethnographic collections. The museum will use the funding to mitigate mold issues and facilitate complete inventory of over 30,000 objects and 18,000 photographs representing global cultures through installation of state-of-the-art compact storage....

This $100,000 federal Project Grant award from the National Park Service's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program will support the Museum of Indian Arts & Culture (MIAC) in New Mexico to conduct inventory, consultation, and repatriation efforts for 79 Native American ancestors and cultural items. The grant will fund the hiring of one full-time staff member and one graduate intern to catalog, inventory, consult with tribal representatives, and prepare...

The Colorado Museum of Natural History (DMNS) received a $297,271 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to process and provide access to the WS Ranch Archaeological Project collection. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), which supports preserving and providing access to historical resources, DMNS will sustainably preserve approximately 500,000 artifacts from the unprocessed WS Ranch collection....