Project Grant SBR93022GR0002

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 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 Cleveland Museum of Art received a $630,592 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301) to create and share 600 3D photogrammetry images of works from its 63,000-object permanent collection. The museum will engage a contractor to photograph the objects and produce the 3D models, which will be made accessible on the museum's website and through host repositories. This initiative will advance the museum's open access...

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 Museum of Women in the Arts will undertake a $513,020 digital accessibility initiative through September 2024 with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). As part of this project grant, the Museum will conduct an accessibility audit of its digital spaces, remediate inaccessible digital content, create new fully accessible digital and archival materials, and determine onsite digital accessibility needs....

The George Washington University Museum and Textile Museum will digitize 4,000 textiles from its global cultural heritage collections through a $504,554 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Museums for America program (CFDA 45.301). High-quality digital images and comprehensive object data for textiles created in the Middle East, Asia, Africa, and the Americas will be made available on the museum's collections management system and online portal from September 2021...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded $141,426 under the Museums for America federal grant program to digitize the photo archive of the Shiloh Museum of Ozark History in Springdale, Arkansas. The museum will use the funding to digitize its Washington County Historical Society Collection, consisting of over 1,000 regionally significant images from 1850 to 1970. By making the collection available online on an on-demand basis 24 hours a day, the museum aims to increase access for...

The Museum of Arts and Design received a $478,800 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The funding will be used to upgrade the museum's primary content management system (CMS), photograph and update its collection records, and consolidate its collections database to improve public access. Specifically, the museum will convert its current CMS to a cloud-based platform, photograph new acquisitions, and conduct...

The Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum received a $493,934 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to increase digital accessibility for visitors with disabilities. The two-part project will involve: 1) Creating a new digital museum map of the Frank Lloyd Wright building, and 2) Conducting an in-depth review and remediation of the museum's website design, development, and content to ensure usability. The museum's digital...

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...