Project Grant ZZ31015625

The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), through its National Leadership Grants program (CFDA 45.312), awarded a $14,011,120 Project Grant to America250.Org, Inc. on September 1, 2025. The grant will enable America250.Org, the nonprofit supporting the U.S. Semiquincentennial Commission, to create six mobile exhibits that tell the story of America's founding. These "Freedom Trucks" will travel across the country throughout 2026, stopping at local libraries, school libraries,...

The Museum of the American Revolution received a $100,000 Project Grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) to support the creation of "The Declaration's Journey" exhibition commemorating the 250th anniversary of the United States. The exhibition, on view from October 18, 2025 through January 3, 2027, will explore the impact of the Declaration of Independence within the U.S. and globally, as well...

The Museum of the American Revolution received a $192,836 Project Grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs (CFDA 45.164) federal grant program. The grant will support the development and implementation of a traveling exhibition titled "Liberty: Don Troiani's Paintings of the Revolutionary War." The exhibition will bring together nearly 40 of artist Don Troiani's original Revolutionary War paintings paired with...

The Atlanta History Center, doing business as the Atlanta History Center, received a $689,200 National Leadership Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (CFDA 45.312) to create programming resources that encourage informed youth participation in civic life and the 250th commemoration of the United States. The project activities include hosting four convenings across the country with museum leaders and young adults to develop programming strategies and a "Youth250...

The Arizona Historical Society will reopen the Sanguinetti House Museum and Gardens in Yuma, Arizona and provide educational programming for K-12 students through a $101,664 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the National Leadership Grants (NLG) program. The Society will hire two Audience Engagement Specialists to support daily site operations and develop educational materials including lesson plans and tour scripts for school field trips. This will...

This $960,000 Save America's Treasures federal project grant, awarded by the National Park Service, provides funding for roof repairs and waterproofing of the Old State House, a National Historic Landmark, which is managed by the non-profit organization Revolutionary Spaces in Boston, Massachusetts. The Save America's Treasures grant program, with CFDA number 15.929, offers preservation and conservation assistance for nationally significant historic properties and cultural artifacts across the...

The Phoenix Art Museum received a $240,746 project grant award from the National Endowment for the Humanities under the Promotion of the Humanities Division of Preservation and Access federal grant program (CFDA 45.149). The grant will support the museum's installation of an exhibition titled "Landscapes of Extraction: The Art of Mining in the American West." Museum staff will design, implement, and manage the exhibition, which will feature approximately 75 paintings and prints focused...

The Arizona Science Center in Phoenix, Arizona will receive $100,000 under a Project Grant award from the Institute of Museum and Library Services' National Leadership Grants program to provide its Virtual Science on Wheels and Universe on Wheels programs to approximately 63,000 K-8 students during the 2021-2022 academic year. The Science Center will work with local schools, including Title I schools, to schedule, plan and provide the programs, which aim to strengthen students' understanding...

This $121,000 Project Grant from the Department of the Interior National Park Service will help rehabilitate adobe museum buildings at the Tubac Presidio State Historic Park in Tubac, Arizona. Funded through the National Park Service's Historic Preservation Fund Grants-In-Aid program, the award to Friends of the Tubac Presidio and Museum Inc. will support repairs such as stucco work and upgrades to electrical and mechanical systems at several adobe structures that house exhibits and programs....

The Arizona State University Art Museum, in partnership with the Hispanic Research Center, received a $690,049 Project Grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) under the American Latino Museum Internship and Fellowship Initiative (CFDA 45.031). The grant, awarded on August 1, 2024, will fund the creation of the Latinx Art & Culture Curatorial Fellows and Internship Program. This initiative will expand fellowship and internship opportunities, produce a bilingual...