Project Grant PF30709726

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) received a $518,102 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (MFA) program. The grant will support NOMA's migration of its collections database from an outdated system to a new collections management system. This project will fund the hire of a full-time Collections Database Manager and two paid interns to facilitate the database migration. The new system will improve efficiency, functionality, and...

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) received a $144,058 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support NOMA's online exhibition programming and digital archiving efforts from October 2021 through October 2023. Specifically, NOMA will use the funding to hire an Interdepartmental Project Manager and Digital Archivist to oversee the development...

The New Orleans Museum of Art will use a $100,000 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to hire a Digital Assets Manager. With a completion date of October 31, 2022, the award will support efforts to expand public access to the museum's permanent collection through digital tools and resources. The Digital Assets Manager will resolve the museum's backlog of pre-pandemic digital processing work and substantially increase the...

The Denver Art Museum received a $395,283 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to implement critical environmental improvements in its storage area. Funded under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301), the 13-month project will install 40 new storage screens for oversized, two-dimensional artworks impacting the museum's Asian, Indigenous, Latin American, Modern and Contemporary, and Photography collections. Work will include pre-move inventory tasks,...

The Withers House Museum will improve access to its photographic collection through a $102,000 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. Under the award spanning July 2023 through June 2025, the museum will hire a part-time photo archivist and contract specialists to catalog, digitize, and make accessible up to 50,000 photographs and negatives. Key deliverables include conducting a conservation assessment;...

The Milwaukee Art Museum will undertake a $830,830 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301) to digitally image 3,000 works from its permanent collection for online access. Prioritizing artwork by artists of color, women, and those conveying narratives of marginalized communities, the Museum will make these collection images available on its website by August 2024. This initiative aims to inform the...

The Museum of Contemporary Photography received a $519,181 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to digitize and catalog approximately 6,000 artworks from its permanent collection. The grant will support hiring and training two curatorial assistants who will research and update artist biographies and catalog content based on surveys with artists, their agents, and families. This project will result in increased public...

This Project Grant award, valued at $184,000.00, was provided by the National Park Service (NPS) through the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The funding will support the conservation of the California Museum of Photography's camera collection, a nationally significant cultural heritage asset. The award aims to preserve and protect these important historical artifacts through professional conservation...

The New Orleans Museum of Art (NOMA) received a $500,000 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support the major traveling exhibition and publication project "NEW MASKS NOW: ARTISTS INNOVATING MASQUERADE IN CONTEMPORARY WEST AFRICA." This project presents the stories and artistic choices of four individual masquerade artists in West Africa, exploring issues of restitution, ownership, and...

The Indiana University Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology received a $352,152 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to purchase new compact storage and rehouse its ethnographic collections. The museum will use the funding to mitigate mold issues and facilitate complete inventory of over 30,000 objects and 18,000 photographs representing global cultures through installation of state-of-the-art compact storage....