Project Grant PW5139713

The Pikes Peak Library District Foundation will digitize its aerial photography collection from the Stewart Brothers Commercial Photographers Collection under a $228,969 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). The Foundation will digitize thousands of photographic prints and negatives documenting Colorado Springs' growth from 1952 to 1995. It will hire a senior library associate to assist with prioritizing digitization of...

This $510,213.00 project grant awarded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program will enable Historic Hudson Valley, a non-profit organization, to digitize and catalog a collection of 3,500 manuscripts. The project will also involve transcribing selections from the collection and creating an online public portal to provide access to the digitized materials. This will allow Historic Hudson Valley staff to better understand, care...

The Avon Free Public Library was awarded a $116,606 Save America's Treasures Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services to preserve and digitize historically significant materials. Under the award, set to run from November 2022 through October 2024, the library will focus on digitizing collections from four 19th century farmsteads, an 18th century house, and a Gothic Revival schoolhouse that are part of the Pine Grove Historic District. Additionally, materials from the...

The Mariners' Museum and Park in Newport News, Virginia will photograph and digitize its entire collection of 32,000 objects, beginning with the Peter Ifland Research Collection on Navigational Instruments, under a $106,485 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). The grant will support improved online access to the Museum's collections through digitization, highlighting scientific and artistic aspects over time. Currently, only 3,000 objects are digitized. This...

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...

The National Endowment for the Humanities awarded a $305,343 Project Grant to the Internet Archive under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to develop a comprehensive reference resource of key art history and humanities collections published online. Working in partnership with the New York Art Resources Consortium, consisting of the Frick Art Reference Library, Museum of Modern Art, and Brooklyn Museum, the Internet Archive will create a...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded the Motown Historical Museum a Project Grant of $464,626 under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309) on October 1, 2025, with a completion date of September 30, 2027. The award supports the museum's capacity-building initiative to digitize and preserve its physical artifacts and archival collections through the establishment of a digitization laboratory. The project includes staffing positions,...

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 Field Museum of Natural History received a $217,897 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) to process and digitize 15 anthropology collections from around the world. Through this one-year award, the Museum will hire two full-time registration assistants and convert a part-time registrar position to full-time. These staff will organize, describe, and digitally archive...

The National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri received a $727,233 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA #45.301) program. The purpose of this two-year award is to digitize over 1,500 objects from the museum's collection, including posters, maps, camp newspapers, and oral histories, and make them available to the public through the museum's online collections database. The project will involve working with a...