The Adirondack Museum in Blue Mountain Lake, New York will produce a new exhibition titled "Artists & Inspiration in the Wild" under a $1,992,806 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The exhibition will showcase the Museum's collection of fine and decorative artworks from 1800 to present day exemplifying the "Adirondack style" and its connections to the natural landscape. Activities will include...
The Adirondack Historical Association, doing business as the Adirondack Museum, received a $291,307 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 the conservation of 139 historical drawings from the museum's collection that were identified as needing urgent treatment. Conservation efforts will include dry and aqueous surface cleaning, humidifying, pressing, removing supports, mending tears,...
The Wild Center, a natural history center located in Tupper Lake, New York, received a $151,747 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (NLG) program. The grant will support the creation of a fellowship program to attract young people to the rural Adirondack Park region and diversify The Wild Center's workforce as it expands its online educational offerings beyond the local area. Through the fellowship program, The Wild...
The Natural History Museum of the Adirondacks, doing business as The Wild Center, received a $351,653 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The two-year grant will support a climate education initiative to train a cohort of teen climate educators in climate literacy, enabling them to communicate climate change science, impacts, justice, and solutions to museum visitors using the museum's Science on a...
This Project Grant award of $189,258 from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development program (CFDA 45.163) will fund an educational workshop series titled "FOREVER WILD: THE ADIRONDACKS IN THE GILDED AGE AND PROGRESSIVE ERA." The project, led by history professors from SUNY Cortland, will use the historic Camp Huntington site in the Adirondacks as a resource to explore how ideas of wilderness shaped America during the Gilded...
The Rochester Museum & Science Center (RMSC) received a $488,844 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The funding will support a range of programming and exhibits related to the opening of RMSC's "Hodinosyo:nih (Haudenosaunee) Continuity, Innovation, and Resilience" exhibit. Key activities include: Partnering with the Ganondagan State Historic Site and Friends of Ganondagan to offer...
The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $488,099 Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) project grant to the Massachusetts Audubon Society, Inc. to develop and pilot the Climate Democracy Project. This place-based, project-based learning program will engage students in grades 8-12 across three predominantly low-income public schools in Massachusetts. The program will focus on educating students about climate change and climate justice, researching local impacts and...
The Rochester Museum and Science Center will provide anti-racism education programs for third grade students and the general public through a $108,109 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312). Under the award, the Museum will deliver a full-day field trip experience for third grade students utilizing its "Take It Down" exhibit, which focuses on a community effort to remove racist artwork from a historic...
The University at Albany, SUNY, in collaboration with the Empire State Library Network (ESLN), has received a Project Grant award of $249,996.00 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The project aims to decrease barriers to implementing archival discovery and delivery systems, enabling under-resourced institutions to provide access to digital objects. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a...
The Historic Hudson Valley in Tarrytown, New York will strengthen its digital capacity and develop online teacher resources through a $119,001 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program. Under the award, set to run from November 2021 through October 2022, the nonprofit will hire new interpretive staff with skills in digital storytelling to lead virtual programs and train existing staff on differences between in-person and online...