Project Grant MH0006002206

The African American Museum in Philadelphia (AAMP) was awarded a $650,398 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture federal grant program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will support AAMP's development and installation of a new permanent exhibition extending its timeline on African American history from 1776-1876 to the present day. The new exhibition will include four additional sections on education, politics,...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $1,083,521 Project Grant to Jackson State University's Margaret Walker Center (MWC) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will support the MWC in moving its archives to secure, environmentally controlled storage during building renovations, while also digitizing nearly 1,000 oral histories and transferring 35,000 digital collection items to an open-source platform....

The Motown Historical Museum in Detroit, Michigan will receive $493,770 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to implement a general collection preservation and reorganization project. As part of the project, the museum will hire curatorial and archival staff to inventory, rehouse, and improve storage conditions for over 20,000 artifacts currently on exhibit or in storage, including musical instruments,...

The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum (BSNM) received a $977,535 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The one-year grant will fund the design, fabrication, and installation of four new immersive exhibits utilizing interactive, multi-sensory displays, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), life-sized dioramas, and audio-visual installations. These exhibits...

The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) received a $322,449 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program. The grant will support four key work areas over a two-year period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2026: Provide in-depth training and guidance to African American museum staff on creating successful applications to national funding sources and managing grants, which...

The Withers Collection, Inc., a non-profit organization, received a $100,000 federal Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund the enhancement of the museum's stewardship of its collection by archivally storing and digitizing approximately 4,000 photographs from its collection that document civil rights history and African American life and culture....

The National Blues Museum was awarded a $399,659 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to strengthen its curatorial activities. With this funding over a three-year period from July 2022 to June 2025, the Museum will hire a full-time curator to develop temporary exhibitions and draft critical collection care plans including an emergency plan, environmental monitoring procedures, and a registration...

The Black History Museum & Cultural Center of Virginia (BHMVA) received a $950,488 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (CFDA 45.309) program. The award, with a performance period from October 1, 2025 to September 30, 2028, will support BHMVA in building organizational capacity by staffing the museum with a registrar, education assistant, and administrative assistant. The grant will also...

The Legacy Museum at Tuskegee University received a $100,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program. The grant will fund improvements to the stewardship of the museum's art and bioethics collections by purchasing and installing archival shelving and storage systems, and rehousing objects using archival materials. This will allow for increased access to the collection and create...

The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum will receive $150,000 through a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture federal grant program to improve collections care and access. Specifically, over the two-year project period from July 2022 through June 2024, the Museum will catalog and digitize more than 4,000 items in its African American military collection. It will also provide staff with collections...