![]() GRANTS AWARDED FOR 33 HUMANITIES PROJECTS AT MUSEUMS, HISTORICAL ORGANIZATIONS, AND LIBRARIES WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 10, 2005)--The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) today announced that 33 projects at U.S. museums, historical organizations, and libraries will receive a total of $773,000 for consultation and planning grants to support the development of public humanities programming. "Museums, historical organizations, and libraries bring the humanities to life for many Americans," said NEH Chairman Bruce Cole in announcing the awards. "Through the collaboration of scholars, curators, and exhibit designers, audiences will deepen their understanding of history and culture through excellent public programming in the humanities." A complete list of the planning and consultation grants is available as a 6-page PDF. With consultation grants of up to $10,000 each, 18 institutions will work with scholars at the very earliest stages of a project on exhibitions, reinstallations or reinterpretations of permanent collections or historic sites, institutional interpretive planning, or other kinds of public humanities projects. For nine of the 18 institutions, the new consultation grant is their first NEH grant for public programming. New NEH consultation grants will support projects such as these:
Planning grants offer museums, historical organizations, libraries, and other humanities-based institutions up to $40,000 each to support projects that require further preparations before being ready for full implementation. In most cases, a team of humanities scholars and programming advisers, representing a variety of perspectives, will work with an institution's staff to develop and refine key humanities themes of planned public programs, with examples such as these:
NEH grants are awarded on a competitive basis. Throughout the year, humanities experts outside of the Endowment and members of the National Council on the Humanities consider all applications and advise NEH on the quality and significance of each proposed project. Additional information about the Endowment and its grant programs is available on the Internet at www.NEH.gov.
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