IMLS Invests More Than $29 Million in Grants to Museums Across America
This article originally appeared on the IMLS website.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced grant awards totaling $29,681,960 for museums across the nation to improve services to their communities.
Through the agency’s largest competitive grant program, Museums for America, and its special initiatives, Museums Empowered and Inspire! Grants for Small Museums, a total of 199 projects were selected from 587 applications requesting $77,398,780. Institutions receiving awards are matching them with $42,810,645 in non-federal funds.
“The Museum World in all its glories of gardens, science, art, history, flora, fauna, and fish are what we need to celebrate the flourishing of our humanity after some dark days of our public and civic world being almost entirely virtual,” said IMLS Director Crosby Kemper. “These grants in our museum programs sustain and move forward all the worldly and other-worldly joy and enlightenment they bring us.”
Congratulations to the New York State recipients:
Museums for America Program:
Brooklyn Children's Museum
George Eastman Museum
Schenectady County Historical Society
New York Transit Museum
Museums Empowered Program:
Storm King Art Center
Inspire! Grants for Small Museums Program:
Historic Saranac Lake
Boscobel House and Gardens
Historic Cherry Hill
Preservation Long Island
Edward Hopper House Museum and Study Center
Yeshiva University
Erie Canal Museum