The Clark County Historical Society was awarded a $160,658 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The grant will fund the Society's efforts to inventory, rehouse, and update artifact records in a collections management database for its historic collection of textiles, medical tools, pins, and fashion items. Project activities will address previous water damage to the collections storage,...
This $300,830 federal Project Grant was awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will be used by the University of Kentucky Research Foundation to stabilize and enhance access to a 200-year geoscience publication collection spanning geological, geographical, and textual data about Kentucky. The project will digitize and rehouse fragile publications, produce high-resolution scans, and disseminate the digital...
The Missouri Historical Society, doing business as The Museum Shop, received a $439,527 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program (CFDA 45.301). The two-year grant supports the society's efforts to increase the cultural competence of its museum staff and enhance the relevancy of its programs through inclusive community outreach. Key project activities include conducting staff cultural competence training, hosting...
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 University Museum at Southern Illinois University will use a $350,437 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.301 - Museums for America) to improve the stewardship of its collections. Over the 2-year grant period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, museum staff will inventory approximately 11,000 objects from the South and Central American, American History, and 3-dimensional Contemporary Art collections. This will involve training staff in...
The McLean County Historical Society was awarded a $145,937 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support efforts to improve the preservation and accessibility of the organization's art collection. Key project activities include purchasing compact storage equipment, inventorying and photographing collection objects, and entering detailed information into the organization's online database....
The Arlington Historical Society was awarded a $254,702 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will fund activities to inventory, digitize, and rehouse over 16,000 objects in the museum's collection, including archival materials, photographs, books, ceramics, glass, and textiles. Planned work includes the installation of high-density rolling storage units, digitization of items, updating catalog...
The J.B. Speed Art Museum in Louisville, Kentucky was awarded a $802,520 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (MFA) program. The grant will be used to implement the final phase of the museum's "Louisville's Black Avant-Garde" exhibition series, which addresses inequalities in the appreciation of Black artists and their works. Key activities include:
Developing relationships with artists and family members to create exhibitions...
The Metal Museum in Memphis, Tennessee will receive $396,192 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to complete an inventory and rehouse its American metalsmithing object collection from September 1, 2022 through August 31, 2025. Staff will hire a collections assistant to assist with moving objects to a new facility, purchase supplies to support photography documentation of each object's condition, and update internal and online...
The St. Louis Kaplan Feldman Holocaust Museum will digitize audiovisual testimonies, documents, photographs, and artifacts from its collection relating to St. Louis-based Holocaust survivors, liberators, and witnesses. Funded by a $491,563 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program, the museum will establish a digital asset management system and make these primary sources publicly accessible on its website between September 2022 and August...