The National WWI Museum and Memorial in Kansas City, Missouri received a $727,233 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Museums for America (CFDA #45.301) program. The purpose of this two-year award is to digitize over 1,500 objects from the museum's collection, including posters, maps, camp newspapers, and oral histories, and make them available to the public through the museum's online collections database. The project will involve working with a...
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...
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...
This Project Grant award of $750,000, provided by the National Park Service under the Historic Preservation Fund Grants-in-Aid for Competitive Grants program (CFDA 15.966), supports repairs and improvements to a historic property in Oklahoma City, OK. The award was made to Open Design Collective, Inc., a minority-owned, woman-owned non-profit organization, to fund structural, masonry, and architectural restorations, as well as building systems upgrades for the property. The project aims to...
The Museum of Glass received a $406,532 Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929). The grant will fund efforts to ensure long-term care and public access to the museum's born-digital and digitized collections related to the history of glass as a contemporary art medium. Project activities include hiring a digital archivist and curatorial assistant to digitize a portion of the museum's...
The Library of Virginia Foundation was awarded a $345,857 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures federal grant program (CFDA 15.929). The funding will support the conservation, digitization, and improved access to approximately 700 Virginia legislative petitions dating from 1776 to 1850. Project activities include deacidification, rehousing, and cataloging the petitions, as well as digitizing the collections to mitigate...
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 National Museum of Forest Service History received a $687,340 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the Save America's Treasures program (CFDA 15.929) to improve storage and preservation capabilities for its 50,000-item collection. The grant funds will be used to install new HVAC systems, microclimate generators, fire detection and suppression systems, security and video surveillance, and high-density storage solutions in the museum's National Conservation...
The Paley Center for Media was awarded a $1,501,487 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 the digitization and cataloging of approximately 2,500 items from the Paley Center's collection pertaining to African American history, including rare and at-risk television media and historic programming featuring notable figures. The digitized materials will be used by the...
The Library of Virginia Foundation was awarded a $598,435 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the Save America's Treasures (SAT) program (CFDA 15.929) to conserve and digitize the Executive Papers of Thomas Nelson, Virginia's fourth governor. The project will delaminate, repair, and rehouse the 2,048 documents in the collection, which includes letters from prominent Revolutionary War figures. The collection will be fully digitized to provide public...