Funding opportunity number P22AS00245TO provide federal financial assistance to state, local and tribal governments, other public entities, educational institutions, and private nonprofit…

Funding opportunity number P22AS00245TO provide federal financial assistance to state, local and tribal governments, other public entities, educational institutions, and private nonprofit organizations to identify, evaluate, interpret, and protect historic battlefields and sites associated with armed conflicts on american soil through non-acquisition projects and activities. The abpp consists of four grant programs, including the battlefield land acquisition grants battlefield interpretation modernization grants battlefield restoration grants and preservation planning grants.award synopsis this 18-month research and planning project will ensure that the lake champlain maritime museum is creating a digital interactive portal that centers the user experience, is accessible for all, and highlights new research using digital technologies. Funding will support planning for platform research, user testing, and user evaluation. IT will also fund sharing photogrammetric modeling of the revolutionary war gunboat spitfire and select associated artifacts, and preparation for collections digitization, including creation of collections access guides, a collections digitization plan, and a digitization studio. This scoping grant will prepare lake champlain maritime museum to digitize museum collections related to the 250TH anniversary of the revolutionary war, plan to create a digital portal that will launch in 2026, and identify technology to meet the needs of public audiences and create new connections to our shared history.