Project Grant 1544007096

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the Robert and Ellen Haan Museum of Indiana Art $593,455 on September 1, 2026, under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to implement a collections care initiative that builds organizational capacity and provides essential training and support for staff and interns. The museum will hire a full-time Collections Manager to lead a structured internship program for college students in collections care, cataloging and database management,...

The Indiana State Museum Foundation, Inc. will receive $427,935 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to create an immersive exhibit on African American cyclist Marshall "Major" Taylor. Opening in September 2022, the exhibit will feature replicas of a 1900-era locker room and bicycle shop to demonstrate how bike design impacts performance. Visitors will be able to assemble bicycles and participate in an animated race. The museum will collaborate...

The Columbia Museum of Art received a $200,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to mount a traveling exhibition on contemporary African American art and implement supporting public programs from October 1, 2021 to September 30, 2022. The museum will install the "30 Americans" exhibition drawn from the Rubell Family Collection, featuring 57 works by 30 artists. Interpretive and educational...

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....

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 Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the Trustees of Indiana University $263,978 on September 1, 2026, under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to upgrade conservation equipment at the University Collections at McCalla in Bloomington, Indiana. Indiana University will purchase and install equipment to improve the efficiency and continuous operation of an anoxia chamber used to treat fragile objects that cannot withstand freezing or chemical treatment. The anoxia chamber...

This $1,036,200 Project Grant was awarded by the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) under the Promotion of the Arts Partnership Agreements program (CFDA 45.025) to the Indiana Arts Commission. The grant supports arts programs, services, and activities associated with carrying out the NEA-approved strategic plan of the Indiana Arts Commission. The Indiana Arts Commission, as the state arts agency, utilizes this funding to develop and maintain partnerships with regional arts organizations...

The Toledo Museum of Art received a $464,506 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs grant program (CFDA 45.164) to reimagine the museum's American art collection and implement a temporary exhibition. Key activities included expanding the museum's interpretation of American art to highlight Native American, African American, and Spanish colonial artists, and integrating works from the Souls Grown Deep Foundation...

The Indiana State Museum Foundation, Inc., doing business as the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites, received a $326,686 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will fund the development of a Cultural Landscape Report for the Angel Mounds State Historic Site in Indiana. The Report will guide long-term stewardship, preservation, and restoration efforts...

The J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky was awarded a $802,520 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the final phase of the museum's "Louisville's Black Avant-Garde" exhibition series, which addresses inequality in the appreciation of Black artists and their works. Key activities include planning and finalizing two single-artist exhibitions and a major group exhibition,...