The Joseph Moore Museum at Earlham College will receive $420,097 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) from September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2025. The museum will complete the fourth phase of its long-term digitization and access program by rehousing over 17,000 ornithology and teaching collection specimens, improving integrated pest management, and establishing protocols to photograph vertebrate collections. At least...
The Indiana Historical Society will receive $449,923 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program to implement a statewide local history outreach and digitization project. The Society will purchase a 36-foot mobile digitization lab trailer to record oral histories, digitize photographs and documents, and provide educational videos on the importance of history. A coordinator will facilitate travel of the mobile lab throughout Indiana to build the...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $127,606 Project Grant through the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to Amherst College for the conceptualization, piloting, and design of interpretive enhancements to the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, MA. The project aims to expand the museum's narrative to be more inclusive and welcoming for all visitors, including the creation of vignettes exploring Dickinson's daily life, poetry through immersive media, subtle...
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 Durham Museum in Omaha, Nebraska will use a $100,322 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to expand online and in-person educational programming for K-12 students. Specifically, the Museum will add two part-time facilitators and necessary equipment to enhance its existing virtual field trips and weekly webcast series, which were developed during the COVID-19 pandemic to improve accessibility. The Museum will also relaunch its...
The Pacific Grove Museum of Natural History received a $141,801 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 museum's development of an interpretive master plan aligned with its strategic plan and new mission to strengthen its emphasis on cultural history and community building. The project team will identify interpretive themes, define target audiences and partners, and strategize...
The Emily Dickinson Museum received a $244,216 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program to improve collections documentation by digitizing approximately 8,000 institutional records and artifacts related to the family of American poet Emily Dickinson. The project will involve scanning physical records and managing the digitized files in the museum's digital asset management system. Museum staff will also travel to other...
The Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College will improve access to its permanent collection of approximately 8,500 objects through a $508,015 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America program. Under the award, the museum will update collection records by incorporating additional photography, bibliography, exhibition history, provenance, and conservation information. This added content will enhance discoverability through keywords and linked...
The Museum of York County will create an exhibit about the natural history of the Carolina Piedmont with a focus on meeting the developmental needs of children ages 0-6. The exhibit, titled the "Early Learner Playscape," will include interactive displays and touch-based activities as well as specimens from the museum's collection. Informed by the South Carolina Early Childhood Standards, the exhibit aims to help children become kindergarten-ready while learning about local...
The National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri received a $727,233 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA #45.301) program. The purpose of this two-year award is to digitize over 1,500 objects from the museum's collection, including posters, maps, camp newspapers, and oral histories, and make them available to the public through the museum's online collections database. The project will involve working with a...