The Buffalo Soldiers National Museum will receive $150,000 through a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture federal grant program to improve collections care and access. Specifically, over the two-year project period from July 2022 through June 2024, the Museum will catalog and digitize more than 4,000 items in its African American military collection. It will also provide staff with collections...
The 9th and 10th Horse Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers Museum will receive $291,000 through a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program. The funding will support the design and installation of five learning stations to enhance the visitor experience and understanding of the history and contributions of America's Buffalo Soldiers from 1866 to 1944. A newly hired preservation and museum specialist will...
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,...
This $169,303 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures program will support the Blackwater Draw Museum at Eastern New Mexico University (ENMU) in preserving and improving the collection and records for the Blackwater Draw archaeology site. The project will preserve approximately 2,790 artifacts, 870 photographic negatives, and 1,356 35mm film strips documenting over 13,000 years of cultural activity at the site. ENMU staff...
The Colorado Museum of Natural History (DMNS) received a $297,271 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to process and provide access to the WS Ranch Archaeological Project collection. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access program (CFDA 45.149), which supports preserving and providing access to historical resources, DMNS will sustainably preserve approximately 500,000 artifacts from the unprocessed WS Ranch collection....
The Dusable Black History Museum & Education Center received a $100,000 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 enable the museum to create a digital catalog and finding aid for its collection of over 1,000 boxes of materials related to the history of civic engagement of African Americans in Chicago. The project will involve moving materials out of...
The Jack Hadley Black History Museum will develop an oral history project and new exhibition focused on its founder with $188,477 in funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museum Grants for African American History and Culture program (CFDA 45.309). Staff will work with consultants to conduct community workshops on oral history collection and create standards-aligned educational materials from transcribed interviews with museum elder James "Jack" Hadley....
The Buffalo Bill Memorial Association, doing business as the Buffalo Bill Museum, received a $1,525,224 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the CFDA 15.929 Save America's Treasures program. The grant will fund the improvement of storage conditions and accessibility for collections at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West's Buffalo Bill Museum, Whitney Western Art Museum, and Cody Firearms Museum. Specifically, the project will rehouse posters, handbills,...
The Michigan Street African American Heritage Corridor Commission received a $118,800 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund the hiring of a new full-time Museum Collections and Interpretive Assistant to improve collections care and access at five historic locations: the Michigan Street Baptist Church, Nash House Museum, Historic Colored Musicians Club and...
The Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society, doing business as The Buffalo History Museum, was awarded a $144,518 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs program. The grant will support the next phase of the Experiencing Our Story project to expand public programming sharing the collective and individual histories of Buffalo and Erie County, New York. Key deliverables include producing 20-30 minute podcast...