The Detroit Historical Society will receive $400,489 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to digitize artifacts in its collection between September 1, 2022 and August 31, 2024. Specifically, the Society will hire staff and train volunteers to produce high-quality digital images and videos of approximately three-dimensional furniture, transportation items, and ship models. Society staff will utilize the digitized materials to create...
The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum will use a $100,225 Institute of Museum and Library Services Project Grant under the National Leadership Grants program to deliver STEM education programs and targeted scholarship opportunities to K-8 students in St. Clair County, Michigan. Funded from November 1, 2021 to October 31, 2022, the Museum will hire additional part-time educators to create a new series of programs aimed at fostering interest in science, technology, engineering, mathematics, the...
The Baltimore Museum of Art will implement hybrid virtual and in-person K-4 educational programs through a $106,597 Institute of Museum and Library Services Project Grant awarded November 1, 2021 through the National Leadership Grants program. Specifically, the Museum will provide its Close Encounters and Literacy Through the Arts programs, historically facilitated in-person, to Baltimore City and County students in hybrid virtual and in-person formats as schools recover from the COVID-19...
The Minneapolis Institute of Arts received a $142,819 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program to merge and expand its docent and guide programs. The museum will implement a new volunteer guide training program to support audience-specific learning needs, enhance guides' cultural fluency skills, and introduce new tour topics. The training will help guides incorporate greater cultural responsiveness and an anti-racist...
The Brooklyn Museum will create intensive arts education curricula for up to 10 underserved schools in Brooklyn, New York during the 2021-2022 academic year under a $231,230 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The museum aims to develop inspiring encounters with art that transform perspectives through its school partnerships, expecting to reach approximately 1,000 K-12 students. Prioritizing Title I schools impacted by the COVID-19 pandemic, the project will...
The Canton Museum of Art in Canton, Ohio will continue and expand its Museum to Go program, which provides virtual visual arts education to fourth and sixth grade students. Funded by a $110,524 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the program aims to improve academic achievement and wellbeing through arts immersion. Each lesson includes a 360-degree virtual tour of a current exhibit, aligned activities on key artworks, and hands-on art making. The program...
The Detroit Zoological Society will partner with three community-based youth organizations to implement a $390,078 virtual STEM education program for low-to-moderate income and students of color in the Detroit metropolitan area. Funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program, the project will train staff from the Detroit Zoo and partner organizations in inquiry-based, humane virtual STEM instruction. Trainees will then develop and...
The University of Michigan Museum of Art was awarded a $500,069 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The grant will fund the development and implementation of programming to educate young voters, engage them in dialogue across differing ideologies, and increase civic understanding and participation. The museum will partner with the City of Ann Arbor, the University of Michigan Creative Campus...
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 New Children's Museum in San Diego, California will receive $103,268 under a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to reimagine and expand its school visits program for pre-K/elementary students and Head Start groups. The Museum will develop new virtual tours, English/Spanish activity booklets, and art kits with digital art packets based on the success of similar pandemic-driven remote offerings. Programming will include...