Project Grant SNI01423GR0046

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 Staten Island Museum received a $634,276 Save America's Treasures grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 15.929) to inventory, rehouse, conserve, and digitize approximately 185 linear feet of archival materials in its collection. This includes the papers of renowned scientists and documentation of Lenape archaeological sites on Staten Island. The 3-year project, running from October 1, 2024 to September 30, 2027, will improve preservation, enhance intellectual control,...

The Withers Collection, Inc., a non-profit organization, received a $100,000 federal Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund the enhancement of the museum's stewardship of its collection by archivally storing and digitizing approximately 4,000 photographs from its collection that document civil rights history and African American life and culture....

This federal Project Grant award of $524,587 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA #15.929) will support the Historic St. Mary's City Commission in Maryland to assess, catalog, and rehouse its archaeological collections dating from the 17th century through the post-colonial period. The project staff, along with a contracted conservator, will conduct a condition assessment of the collection to guide future conservation efforts. The goal...

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 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 Mariners' Museum received a $830,061 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (SAT) program (CFDA 15.929) to catalog and digitize over 30,000 photographic negatives from seven collections documenting the history of maritime transportation, shipbuilding, the U.S. Navy, and maritime commerce in coastal Virginia. The museum will hire a digitization specialist and photography intern to digitize and store these at-risk...

The National Building Museum received a $354,643 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929). The grant will fund the preservation, cataloging, and digitization of the museum's Northwestern Terra Cotta Collection, one of the largest architectural terra cotta collections in the United States. Key project activities include photographing, cataloging, and digitizing drawings produced from 1924 to 1956, as well as...

The South Carolina State Museum Foundation received a $510,744 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) through the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant funding will support the digitization of over 4,000 natural history specimens from the museum's collections. The project will involve hiring a digitization specialist and collections management assistant to capture digital images of the specimens and incorporate the data into the museum's collections...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $1,091,792 National Leadership Grants (CFDA 45.312) project grant to Museum Hue, Inc. to develop and launch a digital platform dedicated to museums founded and led by culturally specific communities in the United States. The 3-year project will engage museum professionals across the field to create the platform, including holding listening sessions, distributing surveys, and developing an online directory and interactive map. The...