Rosenbach museum & library delancey place lighting upgrades project [the rosenbach museum & library proposes a two-year, comprehensive lighting upgrade to protect and preserve its 400,000-item,…

The Rosenbach Museum & Library received a $330,977 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access (CFDA 45.149) program. The two-year grant funded a comprehensive lighting upgrade project to protect and preserve the museum's 400,000-item collection of rare books, manuscripts, and fine art. The project expanded on previous planning efforts and aimed to upgrade, modernize, and automate the artificial lighting systems and regulate natural light exposure in exhibition and visitor interaction spaces, in order to better preserve the museum's world-class humanities collections and support expanded public access and engagement.

Rosenbach museum & library delancey place lighting upgrades project [the rosenbach museum & library proposes a two-year, comprehensive lighting upgrade to protect and preserve its 400,000-item, world-class collection of rare books, manuscripts, and decorative and fine art. The project will expand on a 2016 NEH sustaining cultural heritage collections planning grant and an ongoing, multi-phase capital project that seeks to address much-needed repairs and renovations to the two historic townhomes in which the museum & library reside, in the heart of philadelphia. The project will upgrade, modernize, and automate the artificial lighting systems and regulate the natural light that impacts collections where they are displayed for exhibitions and where visitors interact with them for public tours and programming. Flexible, adaptable, and secure spaces are key to supporting the rosenbach's mission to welcome an expanded and diversified audience to engage with and celebrate the art of the written word.]