The National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri received a $727,233 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA #45.301) program. The purpose of this two-year award is to digitize over 1,500 objects from the museum's collection, including posters, maps, camp newspapers, and oral histories, and make them available to the public through the museum's online collections database. The project will involve working with a...
The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $171,342 project grant to the National WWI Museum and Memorial through the Promotion of the Humanities Professional Development federal grant program (CFDA 45.163). The grant funds a two-week summer institute from July 10-22, 2022 for 28 K-12 educators. The institute, hosted at the Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri, will focus on the enduring impact of World War I on the Middle East beyond the traditional Western emphasis. Topics...
This Project Grant award of $299,420 from the National Endowment for the Humanities will support development of the "WWI Memorial Virtual Explorer App" by the United States Foundation For The Commemoration Of The World Wars, also known as The Doughboy Foundation, from March 2021 through February 2024. The app will allow users to place an augmented reality 3D model of the National World War I Memorial in their own space and explore curated historical content about World War I and its...
The Wisconsin Veterans Museum received a $141,338 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301) to digitize and catalog its collection of post-Civil War through World War I still images. The museum will hire and train a digitization specialist to work with staff to digitize approximately 2,200 objects, including photographs, scrapbooks, and portraits. This project will improve collection management through accurate metadata...
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will digitize audiovisual testimonies, documents, photographs, and artifacts from its collection relating to St. Louis-based Holocaust survivors, liberators, and witnesses. Funded by a $491,563 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program, the museum will establish a digital asset management system and make these primary sources publicly accessible on its website between September 2022 and August...
This Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services will support the WGBH Educational Foundation in creating educational resources to improve access to public media archives. Under the $213,358 award provided through the National Leadership Grants program, the Foundation will develop 20 sets of primary resources featuring archival public television and radio programming aligned with commonly taught topics in American history and current events. The sets will include teaching...
The Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, Nebraska will use a $104,386 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to increase its online educational resources featuring 100 objects from the museum's art collection. Under the National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312), the museum will provide in-depth digital content for each selected object, including catalog essays, videos, publication histories, and artist correspondence. It will form a diverse community coalition to...
The Mariners' Museum and Park in Newport News, Virginia will photograph and digitize its entire collection of 32,000 objects, beginning with the Peter Ifland Research Collection on Navigational Instruments, under a $106,485 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The grant will support improved online access to the Museum's collections through digitization, highlighting scientific and artistic aspects over time. Currently, only 3,000 objects are digitized. This...
The Museum of Science, Boston, in partnership with a coalition of museums and media producers, received a $558,512 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The two-year project, running from September 2023 to August 2025, aims to build the foundation for museums of any size to address current topics of relevance through immersive digital experiences. Key activities include identifying best practices,...
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...