Project Grant ST254994OMS23
- The University of California, Berkeley will receive a $499,999 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.301 - Museums for America) to develop institutional capacity for data-driven approaches to serve and engage with communities in the East Bay region. The project activities will include hiring advisors to assess and refine current data collection and co-design processes, and to create embedded evaluation processes to receive programmatic feedback. The...
- This Project Grant award, valued at $184,000.00, was provided by the National Park Service (NPS) through the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) to the Regents of the University of California at Riverside (UC Riverside). The funding will support the conservation of the California Museum of Photography's camera collection, a nationally significant cultural heritage asset. The award aims to preserve and protect these important historical artifacts through professional conservation...
- This federal Project Grant award of $794,346.00 from the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) provides funding to the Handweaving Museum and Arts Center to conserve its historic handweaving collection. The award, which was granted on September 19, 2025, supports preservation and conservation efforts for nationally significant cultural artifacts. The program aims to assist with the preservation of historic properties, collections, and cultural resources across...
- The Institute of Museum and Library Services awarded a $400,000 Project Grant under the Save America's Treasures (CFDA 15.929) program to SUL Ross State University in Alpine, Texas. The grant will fund improvements to the storage and preservation of the Museum of the Big Bend's historic map collection. Key activities include hiring a curator to research the collection provenance, undertake professional development, and develop a catalog; addressing environmental issues in the storage area; and...
- 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 Great Plains Art Museum at the University of Nebraska received a $330,044 project grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.301 - Museums for America program) to purchase a compact storage system for their art collections. The project will involve moving the collections to temporary storage, removing old equipment, installing the new storage system, and digitally cataloging the collection. This will ensure the long-term preservation of the museum's artworks and...
- The Philbrook Museum of Art received a $934,795 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) to safeguard and preserve its Native art collection. The grant funding will enable the museum to coordinate the installation of fire suppression and new smoke detection systems, as well as outfit storage and gallery areas with security cameras and access control panels. This preservation effort will ensure the museum's...
- This federal Project Grant award of $195,088 from the National Park Service's Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) provides funding to the Japanese American National Museum in Los Angeles, CA to support conservation of the museum's textile collection. The award will enable the museum to preserve and protect nationally significant historic Japanese American cultural artifacts and materials. The project has a performance period from September 2025 through April 2029. This grant...
- The University of Maryland, College Park was awarded a $578,780 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museum Grants for African American History and Culture (AAHC) federal grant program (CFDA 45.309). The grant will fund a three-year project to increase accessibility of three archival collections from African American artists: the papers of artist Alonzo Davis, interviews and field notes of artist and scholar Michael D. Harris, and documents of artist...
- The Wharton Esherick Museum will undertake the conservation of works on paper and archival materials from Wharton Esherick, an influential figure in 20th century craft and design, through a $261,314 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Following a recent survey, museum staff will coordinate treatment and rehousing of objects in the collection, including sketches, prints, pastels and watercolors, with a conservation team. Stabilized objects will then be utilized...
The University of California, Berkeley's Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive received a $923,024 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (CFDA 15.929) program. The grant will fund a 3-year conservation project to preserve approximately 1,800 quilts, pieced textile fragments, and other objects in the museum's African American Quilts collection. Conservation work will include treatments to remove microbial, mold, and insect infestations, as well as careful cleaning, drying, and rehousing of the collection. This project will preserve the quilts and related materials for future research, educational, and exhibition purposes. The grant period runs from October 1, 2023 through September 30, 2026.
Mod # | Description | ReasonForModification | Federal Obligation | Date |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Not listed | $461.5k | 9/13/23 |