Project Grant RH10318421

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 Indianapolis Museum of Art at Newfields (IMA) was awarded a $100,000 Project Grant from the National Park Service's Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) Grant Program. The grant will fund a comprehensive consultation process to review the museum's Native Arts of the Americas collection, which includes 1,515 cultural items potentially comprising unassociated funerary objects, sacred objects, and objects of cultural patrimony. The IMA will work with three subject...

The Indiana Historical Society will receive $449,923 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program to implement a statewide local history outreach and digitization project. The Society will purchase a 36-foot mobile digitization lab trailer to record oral histories, digitize photographs and documents, and provide educational videos on the importance of history. A coordinator will facilitate travel of the mobile lab throughout Indiana to build the...

The Children's Museum of Indianapolis will streamline its professional development programming through a $403,337 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America program. Key activities include launching an institutional learning management system and library to provide individualized training tracks for staff. External trainers will develop new modules on diversity, equity, accessibility and inclusion; safety compliance; childhood development; and...

The Hanford Mills Museum will evaluate and process undocumented and found-in-collections objects identified in a recent full-site collections inventory under a $334,823 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Over a three-year period ending August 2025, the Museum will reconcile found objects with existing records, accession and catalog 12,000 objects into its permanent collection, process education and non-collection objects, and determine recommendations for...

The Delaware and Lehigh National Heritage Corridor, on behalf of the National Canal Museum, will receive $241,470 under a three-year Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program to conduct a comprehensive inventory and improve access to its offsite collections storage facility. As part of the Museums for America program's goal of strengthening museums' ability to serve the public, 10,000 objects from the Museum's personnel and financial records,...

The Cleveland Museum of Art received a $485,086 project grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will fund a collections inventory and rehousing project to enhance the care and intellectual control over the museum's approximately 27,000 prints and drawings. The project involves inventorying the collection, rehousing works using archival materials, consolidating the collection to optimize storage space, and...

This federal Project Grant award from the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the National Historical Publications and Records Grants program (CFDA 89.003) provides $125,000.00 to Trustees of Indiana University, doing business as Indiana University, to support activities related to preserving, digitizing, and providing public access to historical records and documentary sources related to U.S. history. The award period runs from July 1, 2024 to June 30, 2025. The funding...

The Denver Art Museum will receive $620,045 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program to implement environmental improvements and collections rehousing activities. Specifically, the museum will install new storage screens for large two-dimensional artworks, inventory, move, and rehouse works in the collection with the assistance of two part-time collection assistants. The museum will also work with a fine art shipper to relocate works...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $381,869 Project Grant through the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to The Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania. The grant will fund the processing, rehousing, and digitization of the organization's African American collections, which document African American life and culture in the Western Pennsylvania region. Key activities include hiring an archivist to process the collection, improve preservation by rehousing...