Project Grant SNZ95023GR0058

Mystic Seaport Museum, Inc. will preserve and digitize the newly acquired Witherill Ocean Liner Collection under a $105,086 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929). The Collection documents ocean liners during a period of increased immigration to the United States in the early to mid-20th century, with over 7,500 documents, letters, brochures, and other materials related to maritime history and culture including accounts...

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 Bishop Museum in Honolulu, Hawaii was awarded a $513,137 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The award supports the launch of "Ka Ula Wena: Oceanic Red", an exhibition organized by Native Hawaiian curators in partnership with Hawaiian and Pacific knowledge-holders. The exhibition will highlight rarely seen cultural objects from the museum's collections as well as Oceanic objects on loan that feature the...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded a $1,129,355 Project Grant to the Auckland Writers & Readers Festival Charitable Trust through the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to host two U.S.-based authors, Jason Reynolds and Colson Whitehead, and a reception at the 2023 Auckland Writers Festival from May 16-21. The Trust will deliver cultural diplomacy and inform/influence New Zealand publics by bringing the two acclaimed American authors to...

The Department of State Bureau of East Asian and Pacific Affairs awarded $228,000 under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to support travel for U.S. researchers to attend the Regional PIURN Conference in July 2023 in New Zealand. Hosted by the University of the South Pacific and Cook Islands Research Center, the conference aims to inform and influence foreign publics through cultural exchange and expanding relationships between researchers. The funding will allow U.S. participants...

The Museum der Moderne Salzburg received a $290,600 project grant award from the U.S. Department of State Bureau of European and Eurasian Affairs to support the exhibition and publication of works by American video artist Bill Viola. Funded under the Public Diplomacy Programs (CFDA 19.040) to advance U.S. foreign policy and cultural relations objectives, the exhibition was held from July 16 through October 30, 2022. As the sub-awardee, Museum der Moderne Salzburg utilized the funding to curate...

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $422,088 Project Grant under the Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program to the Museum of Art and History at the McPherson Center in Santa Cruz, California. The grant will support the digitization, documentation, and online accessibility of the museum's collection of over 8,500 historical photographs from Santa Cruz County, dating from the mid-1800s to the late-1900s. The project will involve hiring an archives assistant to...

The Institute for Native Pacific Education and Culture (Inpeace) will design the Loko I'a traveling exhibit under a $117,482 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services. The exhibit will provide Native Hawaiian youth and families an opportunity to learn about loko i'a, traditional Hawaiian fishponds that are a central land management practice, through interactive and hands-on activities incorporating observational, problem-solving approaches. Inpeace will collect...

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 Friends of Alice Austen House will receive $118,340 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures program to increase access to and preserve portions of the paper-based collection at the Alice Austen House Museum in Staten Island, New York. The Friends will inventory, re-accession, catalog, rehouse and digitize letters, Victorian-era calling cards, and annotated negative sleeves from Austen's photographic work between October 2021 and March 2024. This...