This $1,348,036 federal Project Grant award, funded through the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929), supports the stabilization and preservation of a historic 1883 carriage house and 1880 stable in Milton, Massachusetts. The award recipient, the Captain Forbes House Museum, will use the funds to undertake critical structural repairs, exterior restoration work, and infrastructure upgrades to these two historic buildings. Key activities include reinforcing...
The Hanford Mills Museum will evaluate and process undocumented and found-in-collections objects identified in a recent full-site collections inventory under a $334,823 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Over a three-year period ending August 2025, the Museum will reconcile found objects with existing records, accession and catalog 12,000 objects into its permanent collection, process education and non-collection objects, and determine recommendations for...
The Withers House Museum will improve access to its photographic collection through a $102,000 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. Under the award spanning July 2023 through June 2025, the museum will hire a part-time photo archivist and contract specialists to catalog, digitize, and make accessible up to 50,000 photographs and negatives. Key deliverables include conducting a conservation assessment;...
The Tudor Place Foundation Inc., a non-profit organization in Washington, DC, received a $725,441 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the foundation's efforts to improve the management and care of its collection and archive through the purchase and installation of high-quality storage equipment. The project consolidates over 30 dispersed storage locations into a single purpose-built...
The Cleveland Museum of Art received a $485,086 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will fund a collections inventory and rehousing project to enhance the care and intellectual control over the museum's approximately 27,000 prints and drawings. The project involves inventorying the collection, rehousing works using archival materials, consolidating the collection to optimize storage space, and...
This $510,213.00 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will enable Historic Hudson Valley, a non-profit organization, to digitize and catalog a collection of 3,500 manuscripts. The project will also involve transcribing selections from the collection and creating an online public portal to provide access to the digitized materials. This will allow Historic Hudson Valley staff to better understand, care...
The Foundation for Advancement in Conservation will develop new online training resources for the Connecting to Collections Care program through a $431,390 Institute of Museum and Library Services project grant awarded September 1, 2022. Under the grant, the Foundation will create 33 new webinars, six online courses with closed captioning and translations in English and Spanish, and enhance the program's website search functionality and accessibility through August 31, 2025. As the sub-awardee...
The Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology received a $352,152 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to purchase new compact storage and rehouse its ethnographic collections. The museum will use the funding to mitigate mold issues and facilitate complete inventory of over 30,000 objects and 18,000 photographs representing global cultures through installation of state-of-the-art compact storage....
The Denver Art Museum received a $395,283 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to implement critical environmental improvements in its storage area. Funded under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301), the 13-month project will install 40 new storage screens for oversized, two-dimensional artworks impacting the museum's Asian, Indigenous, Latin American, Modern and Contemporary, and Photography collections. Work will include pre-move inventory tasks,...
The Western Pennsylvania Conservancy will receive $457,025 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) for a Project Grant award dated September 1, 2022 through July 31, 2025. Under the award, the Conservancy will improve environmental conditions for collections and archival materials related to Fallingwater by installing a new fire suppression system, HVAC and humidification system, and security improvements. Museum staff will...