Project Grant 18658914421

The Staten Island Museum received a $634,276 Save America's Treasures grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 15.929) to inventory, rehouse, conserve, and digitize approximately 185 linear feet of archival materials in its collection. This includes the papers of renowned scientists and documentation of Lenape archaeological sites on Staten Island. The 3-year project, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will improve preservation, enhance intellectual control,...

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...

The Bronx Museum of Arts will receive $799,458 under a two-year Museums for America Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to enhance community engagement programs promoting equity and social justice through the arts. Key initiatives include deepening partnerships and improving access to public programs, commissions and residencies for local artists, and digitally accessible learning materials. Free professional development seminars and a residency program will allow...

The Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation will implement the "We Are #BrooklynKids" project through a $587,545 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Over two years, the Museum will partner with three community organizations to engage approximately 100 Central Brooklyn families, including 400 children, in exhibit and program planning. In collaboration with guest curators from Central Brooklyn, the Museum will also present...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded Opus 40 Inc. a $600,000 Project Grant under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929) to restore and repair the central bluestone sculpture at Opus 40, a 55-acre sculpture park and nationally significant historic site located in Saugerties, New York. Constructed over 40 years within an abandoned quarry, the central sculpture consists of undulating ramps, paths, platforms, grottos, pools, and stairs formed from millions...

The Queens Museum of Art received a $631,633 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (SAT) program (CFDA 15.929) to conserve the Panorama of the City of New York, a large-scale architectural model created for the 1964-1965 New York World's Fair. Project activities will include a comprehensive assessment of the model's 272 panels, repainting and reinforcing the structural supports, and repairing the lighting system that codes...

The Palo Alto Art Center Foundation will implement a community engagement project titled "Creative Attention" under a $235,779.60 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Through the grant, the Art Center will partner with a licensed art therapist to encourage community members to use art to address anxiety and recognize manifestations of the emotion. Therapeutic art workshops will be conducted and an intergenerational family...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $505,934 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant to the New Museum of Contemporary Art in New York City. The funding will support the museum's efforts to expand and refocus its educational programming to address the New York Department of Education's Culturally Responsive-Sustaining Education Framework. The museum will partner with teaching artists and 12 New York City public high school teachers to develop and implement...

The Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation will expand its Museum-on-the-Go program and extend its reach to K-3 educators and students under a $503,390 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. The Museum-on-the-Go initiative provides collections-based learning experiences using a "field trip in a box" concept. Through this funding, the Museum will incorporate new elements into the existing pre-K program and create 24 new case studies...

The Yerba Buena Center for the Arts received a $792,642 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program, effective September 1, 2023 through August 31, 2025. The grant will enable the organization to implement and evaluate a project designed to engage the local community in activating prominent public spaces with art at six sites in and around its San Francisco campus. The project will involve a curatorial council of community members...