The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the Toledo Museum of Art. This funding supports critical renovations to the century-old plumbing infrastructure in the Edward B. Green Building, which houses the museum's art collection and serves as a venue for arts and humanities programming. The project will safeguard the museum's valuable artworks and provide comfortable, inviting...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $268,202 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the Madison Children's Museum. The grant will support 15 months of climate action planning for the Caretakers of Wonder Consortium, an interdisciplinary multi-museum cohort across four U.S. bioregions that serves children and families. The consortium will participate in climate adaptation and mitigation assessments to inform...
The Flint Institute of Arts was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program, which provides federal matching funds to strengthen humanities infrastructure and capacity. This two-year, $450,000 capital campaign project will replace nine failing humidification units within the Institute's mechanical system that regulate temperature and humidity in the gallery and collection storage areas. The new...
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History was awarded a $350,000 project grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to replace the 35-year-old HVAC system that maintains climate control for the museum's humanities collection. This project will provide a stable and sustainable environment for the museum's cultural anthropology, fine arts, and rare books collections, as well as its archives. The...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $130,615 Project Grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130) to the University of Illinois at Chicago's School of Art & Art History. The grant will fund a strategic climate action plan for the university's two public-facing humanities units: Gallery 400 and the Jane Addams Hull-House Museum. The project aims to conduct a comprehensive organizational energy assessment and develop a strategic...
The U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $201,000 grant to the Children's Museum of Indianapolis under the Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA No. 45.130). The project will develop a long-term sustainability strategy for the museum by conducting a comprehensive environmental assessment and collecting data on the museum's water use, waste streams, and greenhouse gas emissions. This data, combined with community and stakeholder feedback, will inform...
The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) awarded a $500,000 Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant to the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art (MBMA) to support the purchase of key elements for artwork care and display in the museum's new downtown facility. The grant will fund the acquisition of custom-made casework for exhibiting and safeguarding artwork, a gallery lighting system to safely illuminate artwork and enhance the visitor experience, and collections storage systems to...
The Portland Art Museum, through its Center For An Untold Tomorrow division, received a $325,000 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program.
The grant funded the development and delivery of "THE ART OF RESILIENCE: A CONTINUUM OF TLINGIT ARTS" public program from August 2016 through July 2020. This program explored Tlingit history and culture through humanities-focused...
The Brooklyn Children's Museum Corporation received a $287,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130). The grant funds will be used to repair and rehabilitate the museum's geothermal wells, a key component of the heating and cooling system. The project will stabilize the museum's interior temperatures, which have at times exceeded 80 degrees in the summer and 40 degrees in the winter, forcing...
The Grand Rapids Public Museum received a $500,000 Project Grant award under the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Challenge Grants program (CFDA 45.130). The grant will fund the renovation of a portion of the museum's Community Archives and Research Center facility into a new public space. This includes the creation of two flexible artifact labs that will be used by K-12 students for hands-on learning with objects, by college students and researchers for...