Project Grant PZ5014708

The Meek-Eaton Southeastern Regional Black Archives Research Center and Museum (MEBA) at Florida A&M University will use a $726,884 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program to build its digital capacity and expand public services for its collections. Key activities include hiring a full-time archivist to assist with inventorying, cataloging, and rehousing collections; creating and updating finding...

Spelman College received a $1,075,420 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will support the Spelman College Museum of Art to inventory, appraise, and digitize its collections while offering undergraduate students from Historically Black Colleges and Universities hands-on experience in collections care and management. Specifically, Spelman will reorganize art storage,...

This federal Project Grant award of $350,000.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (CFDA 45.149 - Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access) will support the University of Pacific's efforts to improve the preservation and storage of their archival collections. The funding will be used to replace existing broken storage systems that threaten to damage the collections, and provide new high-density shelving to rehouse collections currently in substandard storage...

Through a $415,761 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program, the Frank Lloyd Wright Foundation, doing business as Taliesin West, will purchase new high-density compact storage to properly house its extensive collections. This will increase the Foundation's collection storage capacity, improve storage conditions by reducing overcrowding, and minimize handling and movement of artwork while ensuring safer long-term storage. The award...

This Project Grant award of $341,983.00 from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149) supports a study exploring the use of energy-efficient Phase Change Materials (PCMs) for passive temperature control of micro-climates in partially-controlled or uncontrolled collection environments. The study aims to evaluate the performance of PCMs as a sustainable preventive conservation measure, conducting...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded the Museum of the Shenandoah Valley a $755,132 Project Grant under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the museum's compact storage installation project to upgrade their storage units and shelving to accommodate their growing collections, increase collection accessibility, and provide for long-term preservation of the collections. The project aims to address the challenge of collections storage...

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....

The University at Albany, SUNY, in collaboration with the Empire State Library Network (ESLN), has received a Project Grant award of $249,996.00 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) program. The project aims to decrease barriers to implementing archival discovery and delivery systems, enabling under-resourced institutions to provide access to digital objects. The key products and services to be delivered include: Developing a...

The University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology will receive $770,583 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929) to rehouse and digitize its paleoenvironmental archives from Georgia's coastal zone from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2025. Staff will work with graduate and undergraduate students as well as a database consultant to inventory, rehouse, and digitize collections pertaining to Native American sites...

The Weeksville Society will use this $703,414 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (CFDA 45.309) program to complete a comprehensive collections inventory and increase public access to the Weeksville Heritage Center's collections documenting the history of Weeksville, one of the largest free Black communities in pre-Civil War America. Key project activities include cataloging unprocessed collection items,...