Project Grant GA27426920

The Mass Museum of Contemporary Art (Mass MoCA) received a $163,849 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants program. Mass MoCA will expand its free online hub for educational and multidisciplinary virtual programming, leveraging newly created digital resources to foster audience engagement, learning, and conversation within broader social networks. This directly pivots from the museum's annual admission-free community day, which...

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 Chicago History Museum (CHM) was awarded a $499k Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities' Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs to develop hybrid online and in-person humanities programs and resources from January 2022 through December 2023. CHM will use the funding to create a sustainable framework for connecting with audiences digitally and onsite, enhance its digital humanities content and archives to promote accessibility and interactivity, and center...

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...

The Virginia Museum of History and Culture (VMHC) was awarded a $190,550 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development program (CFDA 45.162). The funding will support VMHC reopening and expanding education programs for K-12 teachers and students across Virginia following pandemic-related closures and participation declines. Specifically, the grant will retain educational staff...

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...

Historic Deerfield, Inc. received a $200,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to expand its virtual and hybrid humanities programming. With this two-year award beginning Oct 1, 2021, Historic Deerfield will hire a new Digital Engagement Specialist and pursue infrastructure upgrades to deliver high-quality digital content and hybrid programming to worldwide audiences. Specific activities...

The Weeksville Heritage Center was awarded a $160,125 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to develop an online and in-person educational program for K-12 students. Located in Brooklyn, New York, the Weeksville Heritage Center will hire and train new staff to build curriculum focusing on the history of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities before the Civil War. In response to virtual learning needs during the COVID-19...

The Seattle Art Museum will receive $124,977 through a Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to revitalize in-person arts programming after pandemic cancellations. The Museum will produce public programs connected to the upcoming "Visions of Our Blue Planet" exhibition, guided K-12 student tours aligned with grade-level objectives, and targeted programming for families, teens and young adults. A community advisory...

Lancasterhistory.org received a $199,044 National Endowment for the Humanities project grant under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program (CFDA 45.164) to hire staff and scale up public programming as it reopens following COVID-19 closures. The funding will support filling two key positions - Director of Education and Public Programs and Curator of Exhibitions and Collections - to infuse civics education into the organization's virtual and on-site tours, exhibitions, school...