The milwaukee public museum will partner with the field museum and the university of wisconsin-milwaukee's greene geological museum to convert 60,000 paper?based ordovician and silurian fossil…
Ended Project Grant Awarded Last action
- Award ID
- MA3017053117
- Recipient
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Milwaukee Public Museum UEI KXLTFJV4GQ41
- Awarding agency
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Institute of Museum and Library Services
National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities
- Obligated
- $812,942
Award facts
- Assistance listing
- 45.301 Museums for America
- Completion date
- Originally
- Funding
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- $330,417.94 Federal
- $482,524.00 Non-federal
- Place of performance
- Milwaukee, WI 53233, USA
Award details come from USAspending.gov.
Description
The milwaukee public museum will partner with the field museum and the university of wisconsin-milwaukee's greene geological museum to convert 60,000 paper?based ordovician and silurian fossil collection catalog records to digital form, generating more than 50,000 images. Data entry technicians will be hired to work directly with the collections at each institution, and receive training in the museum's collections management system? Working with museum specimens? Photography? Ordovician paleontology? And geology. The cooperative effort will create an online database with location, stratigraphic data, systematic data, and selected photographs of fossils that chronicle the great ordovician biodiversification event and the ordovician mass extinction. The database will make the collections discoverable to researchers, teachers, and students. The general public will be encouraged to use the database and companion website to learn more about the diversification of animal life on earth and a major extinction event.
Transactions
| Action | Federal | Non-federal | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amendment | -$16,235 | $0 | |
| Amendment | -$16,235 | $0 | |
| Original award | $362,887 | $482,524 |
Quick answers
Who received award MA3017053117?
MA3017053117 was awarded to Milwaukee Public Museum by Institute of Museum and Library Services (National Foundation on the Arts and Humanities) on December 1, 2017.
How much is award MA3017053117 worth?
$812,942 has been obligated on MA3017053117: $330,418 in federal funding and $482,524 in non-federal funding.
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