This $217,624 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program will support Historic Germantown in piloting a hybrid virtual and classroom-based, interdisciplinary educational program for Philadelphia middle school students. The program will incorporate math, art, science, and history using primary-source materials, and will involve a problem-based service-learning project partnering eighth grade students with projects...
The Historic House Trust of New York City was awarded a $186,200 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to support the "History Unpaused" initiative. Under this initiative, the Historic House Trust will partner with the Greater Hudson Heritage Network to provide collections care, cleaning, and staffing assistance to 23 historic houses as they reopen following the COVID-19 pandemic. Services will include virtual training...
Historic New England will utilize a $100,745 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to hire a Curatorial Fellow to assist in developing an expanded collecting plan. The Fellow will identify community partners to participate in collaborative meetings on Indigenous, Black, and LGBTQ+ histories in New England. Additionally, the Fellow will research marginalized stories within Historic New England's existing collections, catalogue...
The Chester County Historical Society (CCHS) in West Chester, Pennsylvania received a $116,717 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (NLG) program. The grant will fund CCHS's project to vastly expand its online collections and make them available without limitation on web-based platforms as materials in the public domain. Under the award starting November 1, 2021 and concluding October 31, 2022, CCHS will scan and...
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will use a $230,028 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to launch an audience engagement initiative. The museum will gradually resume in-person art programs for children and families to help reconnect patrons following pandemic closures. It will organize weekly art-making activities and playdates, create family-friendly gallery resources, distribute art kits, and reinstate its large-scale summer...
The National Liberty Museum received a $657,749 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will fund the museum's effort to create a formalized structure for engaging the community in planning, designing, and implementing exhibitions and programming about liberty. Museum staff will work with community members to form advisory boards and co-curate three exhibitions focused on youth movements, street art,...
The Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania will receive $125,209 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the National Leadership Grants program to facilitate a museum-community partnership supporting emergent English language learners ages 3-5 and their Latinx immigrant families from South Philadelphia. Working with community partner Puentes de Salud and the School District of Philadelphia's Southwark Community School, early learners will engage with art at the Barnes...
The Historical Society of Delaware was awarded a $122,390 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to establish Delaware History Online. Funded through IMLS's National Leadership Grants program, the project will create a suite of virtual educational resources allowing the public to learn about Delaware history from anywhere in the world. Key products include COVID Chronicles Delaware, a community-authored journal of the pandemic's impact on Delaware residents;...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $381,869 Project Grant through the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. The grant will fund the processing, rehousing, and digitization of the organization's African American collections, which document African American life and culture in the Western Pennsylvania region. Key activities include hiring an archivist to process the collection, improve preservation by rehousing...
The Society For The Preservation Of New England Antiquities, Inc. (DBA Historic New England) received a $594,261 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services, under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The grant will support Historic New England's efforts to digitize a collection of 125,000 glass plate and film negatives, creating online access to historic images of New England architecture, urban development, shorelines, and landscapes from the...