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This article originally appeared on the IMLS website.

The Institute of Museum and Library Services announced grant awards totaling $29,545,363 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 208 projects were selected from 758 applications requesting $99,543,356. Institutions receiving awards are matching them with $35,214,339 in non-federal funds.

“Our current round of grants for the museum world reflects the important work of our nation’s cultural institutions during the pandemic and the deep thinking about the future of our culture in a post-pandemic world,” said IMLS Director Crosby Kemper. “Advancing the preservation of collections, diversity through staff training and programming, community response, and formal and informal education for future generations is inspiring.”

Congratulations to the New York State Recipients!
New York Public Library, Louis Armstrong House Museum, Weeksville Heritage Center, National Jazz Museum in Harlem, Museum of the Moving Image, Lucille Ball Desi Arnaz Center, BRIC Arts Media Brooklyn, Historic Cherry Hill, Fort Ticonderoga, The AAMC Foundation, George Eastman Museum, American Folk Art Museum, Historic Hudson Valley, Westchester Children's Museum, Long Island Children's Museum, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, The Wild Center, Green-Wood Cemetery, Brooklyn Children's Museum, Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum, Metropolitan Museum of Art, Jewish Federation of Ulster County (Reher Center for Immigrant Culture and History), Cooper Union (Irwin S. Chanin School of Architecture), Dyckman Farmhouse Museum, Iroquois Indian Museum, Noble Maritime Collection, New-York Historical Society, Rochester Institute of Technology, Monroe County (Seneca Park Zoo), American Museum of Natural History, Wildlife Conservation Society, and the North Country Children's Museum. Read more...