Project Grant ST252526OMS22
- The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) received a $458,007 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities to develop the "My Mississippi: Virtual Visits and Shared Storytelling" program. Funded under the Promotion of the Humanities Teaching and Learning Resources and Curriculum Development CFDA program, MDAH will create a series of behind-the-scenes virtual tours for the Museum of Mississippi History and Mississippi Civil Rights Museum. The...
- 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...
- Mackinac State Historic Parks will inventory archaeological collections from multiple sites under a $347,442 Institute of Museum and Library Services Project Grant through August 2025. The grant supports hiring two full-time archaeology inventory assistants for three years to inventory, rehouse, and document objects in the Mill Creek Archaeological Collection as well as artifacts from Michilimackinac, French Farm Lake, Old Mackinac Point Lighthouse, and Mackinac Island. This represents the...
- The Michigan Department of Natural Resources (DNR) received a $286,823 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' (IMLS) Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) program. The grant will support the Michigan History Museum's review, assessment, and cataloging of over 1,500 three-dimensional artifacts recently acquired from the closed Herstory Gallery. The project will involve hiring a collections specialist to work with museum staff to process and catalog the collection,...
- The University of Georgia Laboratory of Archaeology will receive $770,583 from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929) to rehouse and digitize its paleoenvironmental archives from Georgia's coastal zone from December 1, 2022 to November 30, 2025. Staff will work with graduate and undergraduate students as well as a database consultant to inventory, rehouse, and digitize collections pertaining to Native American sites...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), under its Museums for America (CFDA 45.301) grant program, awarded $138,500 to Historic Trappe to catalogue and organize its collections. The project will process and catalogue approximately 13,200 objects, including 1,900 three-dimensional objects, 300 educational items, 300 architectural remnants, 200 rare books, and 10,000 archaeological fragments. Additionally, the museum will catalogue 500 letters, ledgers, and journals, producing 15...
- The Mississippi Children's Museum was awarded a $353,380 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Museums for America federal grant program (CFDA 45.301). The grant will support the launch of a pilot program to develop and deliver professional development to 4th grade STEAM teachers on coding and robotics. Key products and services include coding kits containing equipment, lesson plans, and digital resources for classroom use; two regional coding challenges for...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded a $1,083,521 Project Grant to Jackson State University's Margaret Walker Center (MWC) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will support the MWC in moving its archives to secure, environmentally controlled storage during building renovations, while also digitizing nearly 1,000 oral histories and transferring 35,000 digital collection items to an open-source platform....
- The University Museum at Southern Illinois University will use a $350,437 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.301 - Museums for America) to improve the stewardship of its collections. Over the 2-year grant period from September 1, 2023 to August 31, 2025, museum staff will inventory approximately 11,000 objects from the South and Central American, American History, and 3-dimensional Contemporary Art collections. This will involve training staff in collections...
- The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) received a $438,150 Project Grant award on June 7, 2024 from the National Park Service's Battlefield Land Acquisition Grants (CFDA 15.928) program. This funding will support the non-federal acquisition of a 5.34-acre parcel of the Champion Hill Battlefield by the American Battlefield Trust, a sub-recipient under this award. MDAH will serve as the easement holder for the acquired property to ensure its permanent protection. The Battlefield...
The Mississippi Department of Archives and History (MDAH) was awarded a $266,669 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929). The grant will support MDAH's efforts to inventory, catalog, rehouse, and prepare for curation a collection of over 2,000 archaeological sites across Mississippi representing 14,000 years of human occupation in the Southeast. MDAH staff archaeologists will supervise the project and consult with subject matter experts and conservators. A new collections manager will be hired to catalog the collections and create digitized records in a collections management database. Funding will also support upgrading equipment, including purchasing computers, storage for sensitive artifacts, and a flotation tank to process soil samples within the collection.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $133.3k | 9/19/22 |