Project Grant MA258197OMS25
- The Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan has been awarded a $1,510,885 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The three-year project will digitize and make accessible the Center's archive collection, including photographs, personal artifacts, and 3D-scanned objects. The key goals are to bring these untold stories to the forefront of Holocaust education, pilot and implement...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded the Dallas Holocaust Museum $331,726 under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) for a project grant running from September 1, 2021 to August 31, 2023. The museum will use the funding to catalog and digitize their remaining collection of 4,008 items documenting the history of the Holocaust and human rights in a local context. This includes diaries, letters, photographs, and 3D objects. Specifically, the museum will create...
- The Florida Holocaust Museum was awarded a $1,500,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The grant will support the museum's strategic goal of enhancing access and audience reach by designing and constructing a new state-of-the-art core exhibition. This will include displaying their most impactful items, such as a historic Treblinka boxcar, a Danish rescue boat, the Elie Wiesel archives, and a letter signed by...
- The Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan will receive $200,000 through a Project Grant awarded by the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs federal grant program (CFDA 45.164). The funding will support the hiring and training of six new professional museum educators to resume in-person group tours and workshops at the Center. The educators will work with school groups, leading tours and providing support services to...
- The Holocaust Memorial Center in Farmington Hills, Michigan was awarded a $605,000 Project Grant from the Department of Education's Innovative Approaches to Literacy program. The 3-year grant funds a Holocaust education program focused on delivering literacy-based educational content on the Holocaust to K-12 students. Additionally, the Center has received previous federal grants totaling $750,000 from the Department of Education and National Endowment for the Humanities to support in-person...
- The U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $249,831 National Leadership Grants for Museums (CFDA 45.312) project grant to Towson University's Albert S. Cook Library, in partnership with Brandeis University Library. The grant will develop, test, and share best practices and digital tools for identifying and cataloging books from the Jewish Cultural Reconstruction (JCR) organization, which distributed over 160,000 books seized from Jewish communities after World War II. The...
- The Cincinnati Museum Center received a $499,685 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. Through this funding, the Museum Center will develop and design a new permanent exhibition, the Indigenous Peoples Gallery, which will explore the region's long history of human habitation, from earliest Native American societies to the tribal nations still residing in the central Ohio Valley. The project will build...
- The Cincinnati Museum Center will fabricate and install the exhibit "Ancient Worlds Hiding in Plain Sight" under a $500,017 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program. Combining the museum's invertebrate paleontology collection with new technology, the exhibit will blend science, history, and technology to showcase the prehistoric environment of Cincinnati. Key activities during the September 1, 2022 to August 31, 2024 period of...
- The Cincinnati Museum Center was awarded a $499,423 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the Museum Center's efforts to improve collections management and exhibition development capacity across multiple institutions in the Cincinnati area. Key products and services include sustaining ongoing curatorial and collections management activities of Museum...
- The San Diego Museum of Man will reimagine and update its existing "Race: Are We So Different" exhibit with $460,013 in funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America (MFA) program. Under the two-year project grant award beginning September 2021, the Museum will comprehensively redesign the exhibit content and develop new interactive elements with community input. The updated exhibit will expand on themes of biology, social history and personal...
The Nancy and David Wolf Holocaust and Humanity Center, in partnership with the Cincinnati Museum Center, will receive a $1,495,762 grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) federal grant program. The funding will support community-centered programming for two exhibitions: "Auschwitz. Not Long Ago. Not Far Away" and "Holding Hope: Stories of Survival During the Holocaust." Key activities will include survivor-led tours, forums, storytelling events, workshops, and the production of a catalogue to share local survivor stories. This project aims to engage a broad audience across Ohio and the Midwest, providing educational resources of local relevance and significance. The grant award period runs from October 1, 2025 to January 31, 2027.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $747.9k | 9/19/25 |