Project Grant 1144007113

The Museum of Arts and Design received a $478,800 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The funding will be used to upgrade the museum's primary content management system (CMS), photograph and update its collection records, and consolidate its collections database to improve public access. Specifically, the museum will convert its current CMS to a cloud-based platform, photograph new acquisitions, and conduct...

The Cleveland Museum of Art received a $485,086 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 collections inventory and rehousing project to enhance the care and intellectual control over the museum's approximately 27,000 prints and drawings. The project involves inventorying the collection, rehousing works using archival materials, consolidating the collection to optimize storage space, and...

The University Museum at Southern Illinois University will use a $350,437 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.301 - Museums for America) to improve the stewardship of its collections. Over the 2-year grant period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, museum staff will inventory approximately 11,000 objects from the South and Central American, American History, and 3-dimensional Contemporary Art collections. This will involve training staff in collections...

This $531,011 federal Project Grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program supports The Witte Museum's efforts to improve the care and management of its 50,000-artifact Texas history collection. Key project activities include purchasing specialized storage equipment, cataloging and rehousing the collection, and training volunteers to process the artifacts and update catalog records. This work will enable the museum to...

The Milwaukee Art Museum will undertake a $830,830 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to digitally image 3,000 works from its permanent collection for online access. Prioritizing artwork by artists of color, women, and those conveying narratives of marginalized communities, the Museum will make these collection images available on its website by August 2024. This initiative aims to inform the...

The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College will improve access to its permanent collection of approximately 8,500 objects through a $508,015 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America program. Under the award, the museum will update collection records by incorporating additional photography, bibliography, exhibition history, provenance, and conservation information. This added content will enhance discoverability through keywords and linked...

The Museum of Contemporary Photography received a $519,181 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to digitize and catalog approximately 6,000 artworks from its permanent collection. The grant will support hiring and training two curatorial assistants who will research and update artist biographies and catalog content based on surveys with artists, their agents, and families. This project will result in increased public...

The Denver Art Museum received a $395,283 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to implement critical environmental improvements in its storage area. Funded under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301), the 13-month project will install 40 new storage screens for oversized, two-dimensional artworks impacting the museum's Asian, Indigenous, Latin American, Modern and Contemporary, and Photography collections. Work will include pre-move inventory tasks,...

The Museum of the Moving Image received a $188,166 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to improve collections management and access to its permanent collection. Funded through the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301), the project will upgrade the Museum's collections management system, develop and implement a new public collections browser, and create 865 additional public-facing catalog records. These deliverables will facilitate expanded...

The Cincinnati Museum Center was awarded a $499,423 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the Museum Center's efforts to improve collections management and exhibition development capacity across multiple institutions in the Cincinnati area. Key products and services include sustaining ongoing curatorial and collections management activities of Museum...