Project Grant IM0304012004

The Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis will receive $301,431 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to conduct audience engagement research and evaluation from September 2022 to August 2024. The museum will work with three consultants to gather input from internal and external stakeholders through focus groups and surveys to identify strengths, weaknesses, and gaps in current audience engagement efforts. Based on research findings,...

Summary The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded the Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska a $330,044 project grant under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to implement a comprehensive collections management initiative. Commencing October 1, 2025, and concluding September 30, 2027, the project will deliver a modernized compact storage system informed by a Collections Assessment for Preservation (CAP) survey. Key deliverables include secure temporary...

The American Association of Museums (AAM) received a $199,403 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The award will support AAM's creation and dissemination of a ten-part publication series titled "Museum Decision-Makers Emerging from Crisis," focused on case studies of museums navigating the transition out of the COVID-19 pandemic and integrating social...

The Museum of Arts and Design received a $478,800 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The funding will be used to upgrade the museum's primary content management system (CMS), photograph and update its collection records, and consolidate its collections database to improve public access. Specifically, the museum will convert its current CMS to a cloud-based platform, photograph new acquisitions, and conduct...

The Milwaukee Art Museum will undertake a $830,830 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to digitally image 3,000 works from its permanent collection for online access. Prioritizing artwork by artists of color, women, and those conveying narratives of marginalized communities, the Museum will make these collection images available on its website by August 2024. This initiative aims to inform the...

The Wiregrass Museum of Art received a $152,112 Museums for America grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.301) to perform a comprehensive assessment of the museum's permanent collection of 735 artworks. The project will involve working with conservators to conduct an item-by-item conservation survey, developing a long-term collections care plan, and digitizing collection records to increase public online access. Key deliverables include a detailed condition assessment,...

The Peabody Essex Museum received a $510,791 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). The grant will support the museum's efforts to create a professional development initiative to improve the workplace environment, fill gaps in staff expertise, and support employee professional growth and varied learning and management styles. Key activities will include developing and implementing a...

The Denver Art Museum will receive $479,144 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) from September 2021 through August 2024 to strengthen its early childhood art and creativity programs. The Museum will establish an Early Childhood Participant Action Group composed of early childhood stakeholders to co-create new program elements for an in-community mini-exhibition program called Art Lives Here/El Arte Vive Aqui. The...

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 Peale Center for Baltimore History and Architecture will implement a paid apprenticeship program utilizing $500,700 in funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). The 10-month program seeks to recruit up to 36 young people from low-income Baltimore families to receive essential life and professional skills training to pursue careers in museum exhibition installation, art handling, historic preservation, and related...