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 Amistad Research Center received a $522,408 federal Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program. The award, effective July 1, 2024 through June 30, 2027, will enable the institution to hire a full-time reference archivist and metadata specialist to address a backlog in cataloging books, rare publications, and the digital American Missionary Association photographs collection. Staff will...
The Museum of African American History in Boston, Massachusetts received a $1,071,828 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 award will support the design and implementation of experiential tours and programs for schools, families, and adults in Boston and on the Island of Nantucket. Key products and services to be delivered include developing a school field...
The Dr. Carter G. Woodson African American Museum will develop an interpretive plan for its new permanent exhibit under a $596,726 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. Museum staff will partner with content, exhibit, media, and evaluation professionals to create the plan between July 1, 2023 and June 30, 2025. Activities will include research on African American history, art, and culture in Pinellas...
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $381,869 Project Grant through the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. The grant will fund the processing, rehousing, and digitization of the organization's African American collections, which document African American life and culture in the Western Pennsylvania region. Key activities include hiring an archivist to process the collection, improve preservation by rehousing...
The Association of African American Museums (AAAM) will expand its Executive Leadership Training Program in collaboration with Howard University School of Business through this $262,055 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309). Building on a successful pilot, AAAM will offer leadership training to 25 mid-level and senior museum professionals annually from FY2023-FY2026. The...
The DC History Center was awarded a $150,000 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant, awarded for the period from September 1, 2024 to August 31, 2025, will support the development and installation of a semi-permanent exhibition exploring the history of Black education in Washington, DC. The exhibition will focus on themes of educational access, the role of activism in creating change, and the Black...
The Alabama African American Civil Rights Heritage Sites Consortium (AAACRHSC) was awarded a $369,892 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 support the expansion of AAACRHSC's summer internship and youth leadership collaborative initiatives. AAACRHSC will work with regional high schools to recruit 30 high school interns in Birmingham, Montgomery, and...
The National Underground Railroad Freedom Center was awarded a $1,000,000 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 creation of a new permanent exhibition examining the historical roots of social justice movements in the United States, from the time of the Underground Railroad to the present day. This will involve working with an architectural firm...
The Philadelphia Museum of Art received a $500,466 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support an ongoing effort to catalogue, photograph, digitize, research, and rehouse 7,832 small- to mid-sized drawings from the museum's Prints, Drawings, and Photography Department. The project will add provenance research, description, and publication and exhibition histories for select works, and make the...