Museums for America, July 2009 Grant Announcement

Alabama  |  Alaska  |  Arizona  |  Arkansas  |  California  |  Colorado  |  Connecticut  |  Florida  |  Georgia  |  Hawaii 

Idaho  |  Illinois  |  Indiana  |  Iowa  |  Kansas  |  Kentucky  |  Louisiana  |  Maine  |  Maryland  |   Massachusetts 

Michigan  |  Minnesota  |  Mississippi  |  Missouri  |  Montana  |  Nebraska  |  Nevada  |  New Hampshire 

New Jersey  |  New Mexico  |  New York  |  North Carolina  |  Ohio  |  Oregon  |  Pennsylvania  |  Puerto Rico 

Rhode Island  |  South Carolina  |   South Dakota  |  Tennessee  |  Texas  |  Utah  |  Vermont  |  Virginia 

Washington  |  Wisconsin  |  Wyoming 

Alabama

Wiregrass Museum of Art - Dothan, AL
Award Amount: $62,080; Matching Amount: $67,066
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Susan Robertson
Executive Director
334-794-3871; director@wiregrassmuseum.org

Project Title: "Art 24"
The Wiregrass Museum of Art will create ART 24, an interactive series of six visual arts experiences targeting a wide range of audiences. Each experience will feature a different artist, medium, subject matter, and collection of participant activities, which will take place both inside and outside the museum. Each experience will engage people in intensive and action-filled ways. ART 24 will also result in a permanent community gallery and a community advisory team that will continue to connect with and guide the museum regarding future collections, programs, and exhibits.

Alaska

Anchorage Museum Association - Anchorage, AK
Award Amount: $147,736; Matching Amount: $248,122
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Suzi Jones
Deputy Director
907-929-9298; sjones@anchoragemuseum.org

Project Title: "Exhibition Development for an Exhibition on Dena'ina History and Culture"
The Anchorage Museum, in partnership with the Alaska Native Heritage Center, will develop an exhibition on the history and culture of the Dena’ina peoples of Alaska. This exhibition will be the first ever on the Dena’ina and will fill a gap in the public knowledge of Dena’ina peoples. The 5,000-square-foot exhibition of more than 200 objects will return to Alaska many early Dena’ina materials. The exhibition will bring the Dena’ina story to life through re-created settings and hands-on activity stations. A catalog and educational materials will accompany the exhibition.

Pratt Museum - Homer, AK
Award Amount: $146,063; Matching Amount: $275,445
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Holly Cusack-McVeigh
Curator of Exhibits
907-235-8635 ext. 36; exhibits@prattmuseum.org

Project Title: "Kachemak Bay: An Exploration of People and Place - - - Final Phase of Pratt Museum Master Exhibit Plan"
Kachemak Bay: An Exploration of People and Place, the final phase of the Pratt Museum Master Exhibit Plan, will enable the museum to engage its community in confronting pressing issues, including environmental, cultural, and economic changes, through the development of dynamic exhibits and programs that meet the museum’s long-term strategic goals. The Pratt will leverage the participation of more than 300 community collaborators, volunteers, and scholars as well as partnerships with the National Park Service, National Geographic Society, regional tribes and Native American associations, and the Homer Chamber of Commerce to meet these goals.

Arizona

Tucson Children's Museum - Tucson, AZ
Award Amount: $107,607; Matching Amount: $118,082
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Brooke Sanders-Silverman
Director of Education
520-792-9985 ext. 114; brookess@tucsonchildrensmuseum.org

Project Title: "Shining A Light on Early Learning"
Tucson Children’s Museum will implement a structured educational program for preschoolers and their parents or caregivers in southern Arizona. The museum’s early childhood program will use best practice recommendations by leading coalitions on early learning, local experts, staff and museum resources, and community partnerships to create programming that will increase and improve school readiness factors in preschool children. Components include weekly programs, activities, exhibit enhancements, new tours focused on preschool learning standards, development of Web and print curriculum materials, and a formal evaluation. Free programming will be available to participants in low-income neighborhoods.

Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum - Tucson, AZ
Award Amount: $149,999; Matching Amount: $164,362
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. Debra Colodner
Associate Director, Center for Sonoran Desert
520-883-3021; dcolodner@desertmuseum.org

Project Title: "Arizon-Sonora Desert Museum Digital Library"
This award will fund Phase IV of the Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum Digital Library whose purpose is to develop and incorporate learning tools for teachers and students. Learning resources will be designed for local schools to complement field trips to the Desert Museum and as Sonoran Desert learning activities. They will be aligned with both the national and Arizona academic standards in science. These learning resources will include video and audio recordings of Sonoran Desert species, online educational activities, and podcasting and vodcasting of educational content by museum staff and docents. They will greatly expand the digital library’s multimedia collection.

Arkansas

Rogers Historical Museum - Rogers, AR
Award Amount: $14,013; Matching Amount: $19,788
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. John Burroughs
Assistant Director
479-621-1154; jburroughs@rogersark.org

Project Title: ""Building Rogers" Exhibition Project"
The Rogers Historical Museum will develop an exhibit on the architectural heritage of Rogers, Arkansas. The project will educate children, families, and the general public about the city’s architectural heritage., The exhibit will be composed of objects, interpretive panels, and a variety of hands-on and interactive activities.

California

Lawrence Hall of Science - Berkeley, CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $150,000
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Gretchen Walker
Director of Community and Visitor Programs
510-642-5439; gwalker@berkeley.edu

Project Title: "Facing Mars: Building an Adult Audience"
The Lawrence Hall of Science will bring Facing Mars, a traveling exhibition by the Ontario Science Centre, to the museum and pilot a series of related programs for adults. Science After Hours will test and evaluate a variety of promotional and programmatic elements focused on the exhibition, including panel discussions and other interactive formats that engage visitors in group activities and problem solving. Evaluation results will be used to design other programs for adults and add to the field’s general understanding of adult audiences.

University of California's Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive - Berkeley, CA
Award Amount: $106,406; Matching Amount: $130,228
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Lucinda Barnes
Chief Curator & Director of Programs & Collections
510-642-7539; lbarnes@berkeley.edu

Project Title: "Improving Collection Stewardship: Barcoding the PFA Film, Video, and Book Collections"
The University of California’s Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive will barcode its 70,000 item collection of films, videos, books, and periodicals to improve security, enhance use, and ensure sustainable collections management for the future.

Goleta Valley Historical Society - Goleta, CA
Award Amount: $119,643; Matching Amount: $127,462
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Robin Cederlof
President
805-681-7216; robin@goletahistory.org

Project Title: "History Education Center, Exhibits"
This award will fund fabrication, installation, and evaluation of a permanent exhibit on the history of the Goleta Valley in California. The exhibit will be housed in the History Education Center, a historic agricultural packing shed on the Society’s five-acre, Rancho La Patera historic site.

California State University, Long Beach, University Art Museum - Long Beach, CA
Award Amount: $147,783; Matching Amount: $148,075
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Ilee Kaplan
Associate Director
562-985-7603; kaplan@csulb.edu

Project Title: "Art Education and Technology"
The University Art Museum will use its award to develop four education/outreach programs that will advance the museum’s strategic goals. The new media projects and related education programs and visitor services will help define the new “smart” UAM that will be built within the next seven years.

Peralta Hacienda Historical Park - Oakland, CA
Award Amount: $149,218; Matching Amount: $149,297
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Holly Alonso
Executive Director
510-532-9142; hollyalonso@earthlink.net

Project Title: "Coordinated Arts and Educational Program Plan Implementation"
Peralta Hacienda Historical Park will use its award to implement the Coordinated Arts and Educational Program. Activities will include community programs, including the Outdoor Arts and Stewardship Program and the Community Leaders programs, tours offered during school field trips and events, and other projects that complement the park’s activities.

Oakland Museum of California - Oakland, CA
Award Amount: $149,964; Matching Amount: $267,564
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Barbara Henry
Chief Curator of Education
510-238-3820; bhenry@museumca.org

Project Title: "California CoNext: An Innovative Programming Series to Advance the Oakland Museum of California's Mission"
The Oakland Museum of California will develop California CoNext, a focused series of innovative public programs that will investigate effective new ways to broaden and deepen relationships with the Museum’s adult audiences. This program series will take significant steps toward advancing the institution’s mission to inspire people of all ages and backgrounds to think creatively and critically about the natural, artistic, and social forces that characterize the state and influence its relationship with the world. California CoNext will enhance the gallery by giving visitors the opportunity to work with artists, scientists, and historians to create new experiences aligned with the museum’s mission to provide multiple perspectives, interactivity, and community involvement.

Palo Alto Art Center - Palo Alto, CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $523,055
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Karen Kienzle
Director
650-329-2605; karen.kienzle@cityofpaloalto.org

Project Title: "The Art Center on the Road"
During a period when the Palo Alto Art Center is closed for a major renovation project, the Art Center on the Road project will enable the museum to continue providing exhibitions and public programming to the community while at the same time building public awareness of the museum among new audiences. The project comprises a series of four site-specific installation exhibitions; an Art Bus that will deliver exhibition-related education programs to schools and other agencies; and a series of Family Days built around the Art Bus curriculum.

San Diego Society of Natural History - San Diego, CA
Award Amount: $54,269; Matching Amount: $54,630
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Mr. Jon Rebman
Curator
619-255-0247; jrebman@sdnhm.org

Project Title: "Improving Accessibility of Botanical Resources from Baja California"
The San Diego Society of Natural History will use its IMLS award to increase the accessibility of existing botanical specimens from Baja California so that the collections-based data are more readily available for computer-based research. The project includes databasing, georeferencing, and digitizing San Diego Herbarium’s specimen data. The project will help produce the most comprehensive and scientifically sound information on the plants of Baja California and will further the capacity of the Museum to promote cross-border collaboration in the interest of educating, raising awareness, and preserving the natural habitat of the region. This information will be accessible for use by scientists, educational institutions, land-use planners, conservation and environmental groups, government resource agencies, and the general public.

New Children's Museum - San Diego, CA
Award Amount: $118,850; Matching Amount: $400,325
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. Rachel Teagle
Executive Director
619-233-8792 ext. 109; rteagle@thinkplaycreate.org

Project Title: "Animal Art"
The New Children’s Museum will present a year-long participatory exhibition that studies the broad theme of animal interaction.  Sixteen contemporary artists from four countries will create a participatory exhibition specifically for a youth audience.

Contemporary Jewish Museum - San Francisco, CA
Award Amount: $96,050; Matching Amount: $206,663
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Fred Wasserman
Deputy Director for Program
415-655-7840; fwasserman@thecjm.org

Project Title: "Being Jewish 2.0 (working title)"
The Contemporary Jewish Museum will plan and implement Being Jewish 2.0, an interactive exhibition and Web site designed for, by, and about the San Francisco Bay Area Jewish community. This project will provide a unique platform for local audiences to creatively express their individual and group identities, and will foster dialogue about the changing experiences of the Jewish people. The project will be developed in collaboration with a community advisory board, and the content collected via a community call for photos. Being Jewish 2.0 advances the Museum’s mission and addresses its goal to grow its family audience and to present exhibitions that provide engaging entry points to learning about and connecting with Jewish culture.

Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco - San Francisco, CA
Award Amount: $100,000; Matching Amount: $196,256
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Abbey Chen
Project Director
415-986-1822 ext. 29; programdirector@c-c-c.org

Project Title: "In Search of Roots"
The Chinese Culture Foundation of San Francisco will use its IMLS award to support its In Search of Roots program, an annual internship in which 12 interns, ages 18–26, participate in research activities in preparation for a journey to visit their ancestral roots in the Guangdong Province of Southern China. The foundation will also archive 15 years of previous program materials and enhance its Villages Database to create a more user-friendly interface and provide a valuable public resource for genealogical research.

de Young Museum - San Francisco, CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $1,863,412
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Renee Baldocchi
Manager of Public Programs
415-750-7634; rbaldocchi@famsf.org

Project Title: "Cultural Encounters at the de Young"
Cultural Encounters is a year-round series of three interrelated and interconnected programs at the de Young Museum, designed to attract new and diverse audiences to the museums while broadening understanding of and appreciation for the art on display in the permanent and temporary exhibition galleries. Organized and implemented in collaboration with a host of community partners, these programs are intended to engage traditionally non-museum-going audiences through culturally inclusive programs offered during expanded museum hours that will provide for greater accessibility.

San Francisco Botanical Garden at Strybing Arboretum - San Francisco, CA
Award Amount: $72,565; Matching Amount: $72,648
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Mr. David Kruse
Associate Curator
415-661-1316 ext. 311; dkruse@sfbotanicalgarden.org

Project Title: "San Francisco Botanical Garden GIS Mapping Project"
The San Francisco Botanical Garden will use its IMLS award to support its GIS Mapping Project. Using a combination of global positioning and total station mapping technologies, this project will create maps that are tied to collections records and show the location of every plant in six thematic gardens. The project will increase the Society’s capacity to advance strategic goals in three important areas of museum operations: plant collections management, care and maintenance of the gardens and interpretation of the garden’s plant collections to a broad and diverse audience.

Children's Discovery Museum of San Jose - San Jose, CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $378,649
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Jennifer Martin
Director of Education and Programs
408-298-5437 ext. 280; jmartin@cdm.org

Project Title: "Vietnamese Audience Development Initiative: Phase II"
In response to the dramatic growth of the Vietnamese community in San Jose, Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose will launch a major initiative to reach out to and serve this growing population. The Museum will engage in a deeper dialogue, internally and out in the community, around the complex issues that emerge when an organization truly embraces diversity. The Museum will create and implement an initiative that: (1) builds internal capacity to serve the Vietnamese community, and (2) creates effective external strategies to address research findings concerning needs and values that differ among cultures and generations.

Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose, Inc. - San Jose, CA
Award Amount: $80,000; Matching Amount: $104,123
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Anjee Helstrup-Alvarez
Executive Director
408-287-7174; anjee@maclaarte.org

Project Title: "MACLA Exhibition Support and Expansion of Public Programs"
Movimiento de Arte y Cultura Latino Americana de San Jose, will develop visual arts programming, a key component in the advancement of its mission and institutional capacity. The Museum will produce eight new visual arts exhibitions, the publication of two exhibition catalogs and six exhibition brochures, and the presentation of an expanded set of related public programs.

Santa Barbara Botanic Garden - Santa Barbara, CA
Award Amount: $57,836; Matching Amount: $57,855
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Ms. Nancy Johnson
Vice President of Marketing
805-682-4726 ext. 132; njohnson@sbbg.org

Project Title: "Strategic Planning for a New Website: A Planning Project"
The Santa Barbara Botanic Garden will conduct a strategic planning project to develop a new institutional Web site. Working with a museum consulting firm and a committee of community stakeholders, an interdepartmental planning team will produce a plan to guide the implementation phases of the new Web site. This project will enable the Botanical Garden to improve its communication strategies and programs, expand its audiences, and provide improved public and professional access to core programs, visitor services, and all other departments.

Westmont College's Reynolds Gallery - Santa Barbara, CA
Award Amount: $113,565; Matching Amount: $141,698
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Dr. Judy Larson
R. Anthony Askew Gallery Director
805-565-6161; jlarson@westmont.edu

Project Title: "Westmont's Reynold's Gallery Art Collection Stewardship Project"
Westmont College’s Reynolds Gallery will create collections management policies and procedures, inventory art objects in the Westmont collection, and create a basic Metacat record of artist, title, media, dimensions, credit line, condition, and location. Eight hundred works will be graded for museum quality, study collection, or campus enhancement. The museum-quality works will be thoroughly catalogued, 40 significant works will be highlighted in an exhibition and accompanying publication. A symposium on the Art of Collecting Art will be held.

California Indian Museum and Cultural Center - Santa Rosa, CA
Award Amount: $61,363; Matching Amount: $62,900
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Ms. Nicole Lim
Executive Director
707-579-3004; nikkimyers@aol.com

Project Title: "Distance Learning in Four Directions"
The California Indian Museum and Cultural Center will use its IMLS award to conduct an institutional capacity-building project to develop a community-based distance education strategic plan that encompasses four major program/audience areas.

Museum of Ventura County - Ventura, CA
Award Amount: $121,170; Matching Amount: $125,709
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Ms. Jennifer Maxon
Project Administrator
805-653-0323 ext. 13; jmaxon@venturamuseum.org

Project Title: "Library Systems Upgrade"
The Museum of Ventura County will use its IMLS award to install and integrate electronic library and archival management systems and upload database files, spreadsheets, and other finding aids so the research library collections can be more comprehensively managed and accessed by users.

Lindsay Wildlife Museum - Walnut Creek, CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $290,796
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Loren Behr
Executive Director
925-935-1978; lbehr@wildlife-museum.org

Project Title: "Lindsay Wildlife Museum New Behind the Scenes at the Wildlife Hospital and Raptor Exhibits"
The Lindsay Wildlife Museum will develop an exhibit entitled, Behind the Scenes at the Wildlife Hospital and enhance an existing raptor exhibit. The hospital, one of the largest and oldest wildlife rehabilitation centers in the country, treats an average of 6,000 native California animals year. The goals of the Behind the Scenes exhibit are to provide an entertaining educational experience; highlight wildlife rehabilitation, animal husbandry and veterinary science as career paths; and inspire visitors to take responsible actions to protect wildlife and the environment. The Raptor Experience will educate visitors to the unique adaptations of birds of prey and the important role they play in our environment.

Colorado

Colorado Historical Society - Denver, CO
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $635,173
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Elisa Phelps
Director of Collections and Library Division
303-866-3688; elisa.phelps@chs.state.co.us

Project Title: "Colorado Historical Society Collections Inventory"
The Colorado Historical Society will conduct an inventory of the three-dimensional collections at the Colorado History Museum, which include more than 200,000 items in the Departments of Decorative and Fine Arts and Material Culture. The goal is to gain physical and intellectual control of the collection. This is the first phase of a three-phase project to document and provide access to Society collections and to ensure that collections management and growth are aligned with the Society’s mission and strategic goals.

Denver Museum of Nature and Science - Denver, CO
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $338,758
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Polly Andrews
Manager of School & Teacher Programs
303-370-6320; polly.andrews@dmns.org

Project Title: "Youth and Teacher Initiative Planning Grant"
This grant will support two critical phases of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science’s Youth and Teacher Initiative. During the 15-month project, the team will develop new programs that will (1) partner more closely with public school districts and community organizations; (2) address more effectively the new Colorado model content standards for education; (3) provide multiple-experience informal science education opportunities for students, their teachers and their families; (4) add programming to support English language learners; and (5) overcome barriers to participation for low-income and underrepresented audiences.

Fort Collins Museum - Fort Collins, CO
Award Amount: $149,672; Matching Amount: $210,712
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. Brent Carmack
Project Director
970-416-2702; bcarmack@fcgov.com

Project Title: "Fort Collins Museum Collections Move Project"
The Fort Collins Collections Move Project will build on previous work to finalize and implement strategies to relocate more than 10,000 three-dimensional objects, more than 1,000 linear feet of archival materials, and approximately 3,500 rare or out-of-print books to a new facility opening in 2011. The project will enable the museum staff to complete pre-move inventories, design a professional storage area, develop transportation strategies, and complete the collections move.

Connecticut

CRRA Trash Museum and CRRA Garbage Museum - Hartford, CT
Award Amount: $86,940; Matching Amount: $96,350
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Paul Nonnenmacher
Public Affairs Director
860-757-7771; pnonnenmacher@crra.org

Project Title: "SAVE - Single-Stream Awareness Via Education"
The Connecticut Resources Recovery Authority’s Single-Stream Awareness Via Education program will support the educational missions of two Connecticut museums to serve the public more effectively. The museums will play a critical role in providing single-stream recycling education to the public by extending their role into the communities. The overall goal is to help communities increase their recycling rates through education. Museum educators will provide workshops, aligned with the state science frameworks, to students and school educators. During museum visits, students will view a live recycling processing facility using state-of-the-art technology.

Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield, CT
Award Amount: $98,843; Matching Amount: $109,591
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Catherine Fields
Director
860-567-4501; cfields@litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org

Project Title: "Litchfield Law School/Litchfield Female Academy Searchable Database"
The Litchfield Historical Society will use its award to develop a comprehensive online database of students from the Litchfield Law School and the Litchfield Female Academy. The searchable database will include genealogical, school, and career information on over 2,600 attendees, as well as links to artwork, writings, and other material from the Society’s collection and other institutions associated with the students. The project will raise awareness about an often overlooked period of American history and provide information about two premier educational institutions during the late 18th to the mid-19th centuries, and the many contributions made by their students throughout their lives. The database will create a prototype for institutions that wish to synthesize information traditionally held separately in archives, libraries, and museums.

Mystic Seaport Museum - Mystic, CT
Award Amount: $149,136; Matching Amount: $150,486
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Jonathan Shay
Director of Exhibitions and Interpretation
860-572-0711 ext. 4230; jonathan.shay@mysticseaport.org

Project Title: "Tugs! Exhibition"
Mystic Seaport will develop and implement an exhibit entitled, Tugs! The exhibit will showcase the importance of tugboats within maritime history and feature original artifacts, interactive elements, engaging low-tech and electronic activities, large-scale graphics, and audio/video elements. The indoor exhibit will be enhanced by outdoor programs and hands-on activities.

Peabody Museum of Natural History - New Haven, CT
Award Amount: $149,028; Matching Amount: $150,734
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Jane Pickering
Assistant Director for Public Programs
203-432-0798; jane.pickering@yale.edu

Project Title: "Yale Peabody Museum EVOLUTIONS After School Program"
The Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History will use its IMLS award to support a new component of its after-school program Evolutions, a science literacy program that meets the needs of teens and their teachers, parents, and community in the New Haven Public Schools. The program engages students in grades 9 - 12 from groups traditionally underrepresented in the sciences in a comprehensive, museum-based curriculum that combines hands-on projects, field trips, college preparation, career awareness, and transferable skills development, along with opportunities for paid internships. The new component—a career ladder program called Sci.CORPS, will employ students as interpreters in the exhibition galleries.

Stepping Stones Museum for Children - Norwalk, CT
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $738,000
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Mr. David Sklar
CFO/Director of Business Intelligence
203-899-0606 ext. 231; david@steppingstonesmuseum.org

Project Title: "Integrated Data management and Technology System"
The Stepping Stones Museum will design and implement a state-of-the-art, integrated data management and technology system to support and link back-of-the-house operations and enhance the visitor experience. The system will include applications that will broaden the museum’s reach through distance learning and interactive participation. It will provide valuable information that informs strategic decisions to optimize programs and customer service..

Florida

Young At Art - Davie, FL
Award Amount: $105,500; Matching Amount: $106,478
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Mindy Shrago
Executive Director
954-424-0085 ext. 21; mshrago@youngatartmuseum.org

Project Title: "Prototyping A New Model: The Art Museum for Children"
Young At Art will use its IMLS award to support Prototyping a New Model: The Art Museum for Children. The goal of the project is to design, develop, build, test, and evaluate both the quantitative elements of key exhibit components and the qualitative elements of a child’s ability to understand the underlying key education goals. The prototype will inform and strengthen the concepts and methodologies that will culminate in an art museum for children. The museum hopes to transform the way children learn about and appreciate the arts.

Gold Coast Railroad Museum - Miami, FL
Award Amount: $71,999; Matching Amount: $96,234
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. Rick Olsen
Executive Director- Curator
305-253-6240; rick.olsen@gcrm.org

Project Title: "Gold Coast Railroad Museum Collections Cataloging Project"
The Gold Coast Railroad Museum will use their IMLS award to inventory and catalog their collection of small artifacts and historic publications. This project will include relocation of the collection to a new storage area, inventory of the collection, and data entry of informational related documentation into the PastPerfect catalog database.

Marie Selby Botanical Gardens - Sarasota, FL
Award Amount: $133,025; Matching Amount: $138,136
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Dr. John Clark
Director, Gesneriad Research Center
941-366-5731 ext. 256; jrclark@selby.org

Project Title: "Selby Gardens Molecular Program: Capacity Building through Advanced Research Capabilities"
The Marie Selby Botanical Gardens will develop a molecular research will enable researchers to address issues in plant evolution and taxonomy that cannot be addressed using traditional techniques alone. The new program will be piloted through two molecular-based projects focused on epiphytes, the niche focus of Selby Gardens. The outcomes of the project will be an improved research capacity through plant-based molecular research, results that will have direct application in future research and conservation, and an enhanced capacity to reach the Selby Gardens’ target audience of university, garden, and museum professionals.

Mote Marine Aquarium - Sarasota, FL
Award Amount: $62,633; Matching Amount: $66,309
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Elizabeth Metz Kirk
Director of Distance Learning
941-388-4441 ext. 362; emetz@mote.org

Project Title: "Digital Docents on Demand: Planning for Wide Use of Piloted Exhibits"
Mote Marine Laboratory and Aquarium will develop three traveling exhibits, each enhanced with live interactive videoconference programming. The exhibits will comprise the Digital Docents project, which engages visitors through hands-on display and programs with Mote educators. These exhibits are designed to fill the demand for small, dynamic, affordable exhibits.

Great Explorations - St. Petersburg, FL
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $1,051,231
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Julia McAllister
Director of Education and Exhibits
727-821-8992; jmcallister@greatex.org

Project Title: "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz"
Great Explorations Children’s Museum will develop and fabricate two traveling exhibits based on the Oz books by L. Frank Baum. The exhibits will be adapted from a prototype exhibit. Lessons learned from the prototype will be incorporated into the new traveling exhibits, which will be available to museums and libraries across the United States. The Museum will partner with the Clearwater Public Library System to promote literacy and reading through the traveling exhibits.

Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science - Tallahassee, FL
Award Amount: $144,191; Matching Amount: $185,710
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Linda Deaton
Curator
850-575-8684 ext. 113; ldeaton@tallahasseemuseum.org

Project Title: "Shaping an Cohesive Visitor Experience"
The Tallahassee Museum of History and Natural Science will complete a museum site plan and develop an interpretive plan, which will enhance and reinforce the Museum’s institutional capacity and strengthen its ability to garner additional community support.

Georgia

Atlanta Botanical Garden - Atlanta, GA
Award Amount: $149,730; Matching Amount: $363,146
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Dr. Jennifer Cruse-Sanders
Director of Research
404-591-1590; jsanders@atlantabotanicalgarden.org

Project Title: "GIS Mapping Project"
The Atlanta Botanical Garden will use IMLS funds to support the Garden’s Geographic Information System Mapping Project. The goals of the Mapping Project are to (1) develop an accurate and updatable layered basemap; (2) improve the accuracy of identifying and locating plant collections; (3) improve maintenance procedures for living collections; (4) increase the ability to monitor, update, and report for ongoing collections care projects throughout the southeastern United States, and (5) develop tools that will increase the public’s understanding and appreciation of living collections.

Georgia College and State University Natural History Museum - Milledgeville, GA
Award Amount: $149,296; Matching Amount: $153,866
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. Robert Chandler
Professor
478-445-0811; bob.chandler@gcsu.edu

Project Title: "From Fossils to Space"
The Georgia College and State University’s From Fossils to Space project will develop relevant and engaging educational programming for grades 3–8 science teachers and students in the fields of paleontology, earth sciences, and astronomy. The project will meet the needs of central Georgia rural communities who have no other access to these scientific resources despite state-mandated requirements as part of the Georgia Performance Standards.

Georgia Historical Society - Savannah, GA
Award Amount: $100,172; Matching Amount: $100,183
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Nora Lewis
Library and Archives Manager
912-651-2125; nlewis@georgiahistory.com

Project Title: "Expanding Audiences for History: Access for a New Century"
The Georgia Historical Society will use their IMLS award to carry out Phase III objectives for its Expanding Audiences for History: Access for a New Century technology initiative. Activities include the retrospective conversion of the card catalog for artifacts, portraits, and maps, and the inclusion of catalog records in the online public access catalog and PastPerfect-Online. The three-phase technology plan will achieve the following goals: (1) create unprecedented access to the Society’s unique archival collections and educational offerings; (2) improve and streamline the Society’s library services; and (3) reach the diverse and ever-expanding audiences for history.

Hawaii

Iolani Palace - Honolulu, HI
Award Amount: $141,390; Matching Amount: $250,695
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Stuart Ching
Curator
808-522-0834; curator@iolanipalace.org

Project Title: "Iolani Palace Textile Refurnishing Project"
Iolani Palace will use its award for a textile refurnishing project which will include custom carpeting, draperies, and upholstering of original furniture. This project will enhance the ongoing interpretation of Iolani Palace, a National Historic Landmark.

Mission Houses Museum - Honolulu, HI
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $355,261
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. David de la Torre
Associate Director
808-447-3911; ddelatorre@missionhouses.org

Project Title: "Mission Houses Museum Primary Source Digitization and Internet Access Project"
The Mission Houses Museum will use its IMLS award to computerize and digitize its 19th-century museum and library holdings and make them more readily available and accessible to a wider audience over the Internet. The museum’s collections, including three historic structures, more than 3,000 artifacts, and 12,000 books and archival materials, offer significant primary source material to interpret the important period (1820–60) in Hawaii’s history when New England missionaries came to the Hawaiian Islands. The project will include digitization of photos, journals, and newspapers; Web site expansion; and catalog entries complemented by oral histories.

Idaho

Idaho Museum of Natural History - Pocatello, ID
Award Amount: $143,922; Matching Amount: $143,959
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Rebecca Thorne-Ferrel
Education Resources Manager
208-282-2195; thorrebe@isu.edu

Project Title: "The Idaho Geology Outreach Project: Bridging the Natural History Gap"
In the Idaho Geology Outreach project, the Museum will work with community partners to support and enhance learning at selected rural public schools. Working with earth science teachers, the Museum will augment the school curriculum by providing access to resources that will enable teachers to incorporate local geological information.

Illinois

Schmidt Art Center of Southwestern Illinois College - Belleville, IL
Award Amount: $20,450; Matching Amount: $20,450
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Libby Reuter
Curator Schmidt Art Center
618-235-2700 ext. 5143; libby.reuter@swic.edu

Project Title: "Conjunctions: Ubjects, Stories, and Places"
The Schmidt Art Center of Southwestern Illinois College’s Conjunctions: Ubjects, Stories, and Places, is a series of community coauthored exhibits and discussions to answer questions how and why special value is placed on certain unique objects or places and how these objects or sites come to affirm us in our daily lives. Collaborators include the University of Missouri’s Education Department and Center for Human Origin and Cultural Diversity, and Southern Illinois University’s Departments of History and Museum Studies. The project will support community interviews with residents, humanities discussions at local libraries and at the Schmidt Art Center, an arts education curriculum with fourth- and fifth-grade students, and a culminating humanities discussion and exhibit at the Schmidt.

Chicago Architecture Foundation - Chicago, IL
Award Amount: $106,224; Matching Amount: $186,224
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Jason Neises
VP of Tours and Guest Relations
312-922-3432 ext. 268; jneises@architecture.org

Project Title: "Community Docent Education Program - Development and Implementation"
Working in partnership with community-based organizations in five Chicago neighborhoods, the Chicago Architecture Foundation will develop and pilot a community docent education program. Drawing on the Foundation’s 35-year history of training volunteer docents, the program will educate and empower residents to serve as leaders in stewardship and decision making regarding the built environments of their communities. The Foundation will initiate outreach primarily to neighborhoods on Chicago’s south and west sides, with a focus on serving racially and culturally diverse, economically disadvantaged communities. Training community docents to give architecture tours will enhance the ability of neighborhood residents to work in their communities to strengthen community identity and pride of place. Developing a neighborhood tour program will increase a neighborhood’s social and economic value as an investment and a destination.

Field Museum of Natural History - Chicago, IL
Award Amount: $119,803; Matching Amount: $120,999
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. Harold Voris
Curatorial
312-665-7769 ext. 00887; hvoris@fieldmuseum.org

Project Title: "Providing Long-Term Security and Access to Genetic Resources at Field Museum"
The Field Museum will use its IMLS award to complete the task of securing DNA-rich tissue samples in a state-of-the art, centralized cryogenic storage facility and expand their accessibility by updating searchable databases that will allow researchers to query the collections and formulate loan requests efficiently. These samples are a critical resource for molecular studies by the national and international research communities and are essential to the progress of modern systematics and evolutionary biology.

Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago - Chicago, IL
Award Amount: $82,356; Matching Amount: $111,894
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Lorelei Stewart
Director
312-355-4850; lorelei@uic.edu

Project Title: "Gallery 400 Website Redevelopment Project"
Gallery 400 at the University of Illinois at Chicago will redesign its Web site to increase and more deeply engage target audiences and build organizational capacity. By digitizing Gallery 400’s 25-year history, with edited audio and video documentation and interactive features, the project will make this little-known history publicly accessible for the first time. The new Web site will help build future audiences for contemporary art, document the history of contemporary art, and develop public understanding of recent art, architecture, and design.

Unity Temple Restoration Foundation - Oak Park, IL
Award Amount: $82,852; Matching Amount: $99,471
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Emily Roth
Executive Director
708-383-8873; eroth@utrf.org

Project Title: "Improving the Visitor Experience at Frank Lloyd Wright's Unity Temple"
Improving the Visitor Experience at Frank Lloyd Wright’s Unity Temple is a new initiative that will provide interpretive opportunities for visitors and create long-term relationships that will inform and engage them before, during, and following their visit. Immediate improvements include the addition of signage and interpretation, a new audio tour, an upgraded Web site, and staffing and training. Long-term improvements will be developed through comprehensive visitor studies and and formative and summative evaluations that will measure the project’s overall effectiveness.

Cernan Earth and Space Center - River Grove, IL
Award Amount: $54,610; Matching Amount: $54,644
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Bart Benjamin
Director
708-456-0300 ext. 3408; bbenjami@triton.edu

Project Title: "Cernan Earth & Space Center: Touch the Sky"
The Cernan Earth and Space Center will use its IMLS award to produce a planetarium program entitled, “Touch the Sky.” Underserved K-12 students, day care centers, youth, seniors, and other groups in the communities surrounding Triton College will be able to explore the cosmos and learn about science. The “Touch the Sky” project will introduce as many as 14,000 underserved students to different areas of science through imaginary trips: aboard the space shuttle, back in time to the age of dinosaurs, or to the planets of the solar system.

Indiana

William Hammond Mathers Museum - Bloomington, IN
Award Amount: $147,346; Matching Amount: $148,820
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. Geoffrey Conrad
Director
802-855-5340; conrad@indiana.edu

Project Title: "Big History in a Small Museum"
The William Hammond Mathers Museum, in conjunction with Indiana University scholars, will create an exhibit entitled, From the Big Bang to the World Wide Web: The Origins of Everything. This exhibit will explore humanity’s cosmic, terrestrial, biological, and cultural origins to help the Museum’s audience understand and appreciate how the world shapes humanity and how humanity’s actions are shaping the world.

General Lew Wallace Study and Museum - Crawfordsville, IN
Award Amount: $119,668; Matching Amount: $129,226
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Cinnamon Catlin-Legutko
Director
765-362-5769 ext. 101; clegutko@ben-hur.com

Project Title: "Strengthening the Core: Capacity Building Strategies at the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum"
The General Lew Wallace Study and Museum will use its IMLs award to build organizational capacity by developing site interpretation, creating innovative educational programming, securing financial stability, and ensuring the preservation of its collections.

Indiana Historical Society - Indianapolis, IN
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $2,242,247
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: John Herbst
President and CEO
317-234-3895; jherbst@indianahistory.org

Project Title: "The Indiana Experience"
The Indiana Experience is a collection of eight new permanent programs and exhibitions that will be housed in the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center. The Indiana Experience will create distinctive visitor experiences to directly engage audiences and create personal connections to history. The eight components are You Are There, Destination Indiana, The W. Brooks and Wanda Y. Fortune History Lab, INvestigation Stations, Indiana Town Hall Series, The Cole Porter Studio, Anything Goes, and Hoosier Legends.

Indianapolis Museum of Art - Indianapolis, IN
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $269,551
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Linda Duke
Director of Education
317-923-1331 ext. 207; lduke@ima-art.org

Project Title: "Viewfinders: In-Service to Pre-Service"
The Indianapolis Museum of Art will collaborate with six partners to develop a pilot pre-service program on visual thinking strategies for future educators and the faculty teaching them. The Viewfinders project will introduce the strategies into courses at three local universities and elementary schools in two districts will serve as the labs for the pre-service educators. , in collaboration with six partners, will develop Visual Thinking Strategies into a pilot pre-service program for faculty and future elementary school educators entitled, Viewfinders: In-Service to Pre-Service. In cooperation with Visual Understanding in Education, museum educators will work with elementary education professors at three partner universities in Indianapolis to introduce Visual Thinking Strategies into their courses for elementary education majors and create a pilot model for this process.

Ball State University - Muncie, IN
Award Amount: $149,999; Matching Amount: $256,143
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Carl Schafer
Associate Director, Museum of Art
765-285-5270; carlschafer@bsu.edu

Project Title: "Look to Learn through DIDO: Digital Images Delivered Online at the Ball State University Museum of Art"
The Ball State University Museum of Art will develop and disseminate a third-to-sixth-grade standards-based language arts curriculum using works of art in the museum’s collection. The curriculum will employ a teaching method called Visual Thinking Strategies,a learner-centered method that uses art to develop skills of observing and flexible thinking. The museum and its partners—Ball State University Teachers College and Burris Laboratory School—will write and deliver the curriculum, perform a three-year longitudinal study to demonstrate improvement in students’ critical thinking skills, and analyze the curriculum’s effect on students’ performance in language arts.

Iowa

Fort Des Moines Museum and Education Center - Des Moines, IA
Award Amount: $131,966; Matching Amount: $131,789
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Joseph Nolte
Executive Director
515-282-8060; joenolte@qwestoffice.net

Project Title: "Collecting, Preserving, and Telling the Story of the Women's Army Corps at Fort Des Moines"
The Fort Des Moines Museum will use its IMLS award to seek out and preserve the stories of the survivors from the Women’s Army Auxiliary Corps, the first pioneering group of women to enter the United States Army when the Corps was established in Des Moines in 1942. The museum will develop exhibits and programs to help tell these stories as well as to promote leadership skills in women and girls.

Mathias Ham House, Dubuque County Historical Society - Dubuque, IA
Award Amount: $119,788; Matching Amount: $120,331
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. Jerry Enzler
Executive Director
563-557-9545; jenzler@rivermuseum.com

Project Title: "Dubuque County Historical Society Local History Collections Stewardship"
The Dubuque County Historical Society will inventory, relocate, register, and provide access to its archival and material culture collections. The IMLS award will provide for the planning, inventory, security, packing, and orderly move of the collection in 2010, as well as ongoing inventory, cataloging, and management of the collection. A digitized sampling of frequently handled or extremely fragile artifacts will be posted online as part of this project. This pilot digitization component will be evaluated by the Society to assess the feasibility of a more comprehensive digitization project in the future.

Kansas

Kansas Cosmosphere and Space Center - Hutchinson, KS
Award Amount: $137,373; Matching Amount: $173,464
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mrs. Marisa Honomichl
VP of Development
620-665-9339; marisah@cosmo.org

Project Title: "Investigate Space - Exploring space from the past to the future"
The Kansas Cosmosphere will develop a 4,000-square-foot exhibit on space exploration from the 1970s into the future. This immersive and interactive exhibit will feature simulators of spacecraft from the past, present, and future. Learning stations with kiosks will allow visitors to explore related information, and graphics and artifacts will supplement the experience. The combination of learning stations and simulators will offer visitors a taste of space exploration and the science behind it.

Johnson County Museums - Shawnee, KS
Award Amount: $121,321; Matching Amount: $144,521
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mindi Love
Executive Director
913-715-2555; mindi.love@jocogov.org

Project Title: "Johnson County Museum Interpretive Plan"
The Johnson County Museums will hire a consultant to facilitate an interpretive planning process to direct the Museum’s future permanent and changing exhibitions, program opportunities for schools, youth, and the general public, and hands-on, interactive activities. With a new focus on suburban history, the Museum will use its award to develop the humanities themes which will guide the interpretive framework. The interpretive plan will be the guiding document for the Museum’s future work, and be a substantial investment in building capacity for the Museum to achieve its strategic vision. The Museum

City of Wichita - WATER Center - Wichita, KS
Award Amount: $33,000; Matching Amount: $33,000
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Kay Johnson
Director
316-268-8351; kjohnson@wichita.gov

Project Title: "Opposites Attract: Exploring the Unique Nature of Water"
The Water Center, Wichita’s interactive water education museum, will create the Opposites Attract exhibit. Through interpretive panels, graphics and hands on elements the exhibit will explain water polarity, capillary action, and the effects these have on water pollution.

Kentucky

Muhammad Ali Museum and Education Center - Louisville, KY
Award Amount: $76,527; Matching Amount: $79,008
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Dr. Alonford Robinson
Chairman and CEO
202-857-9732; ajrobinson@symphonicstrategies.com

Project Title: "Muhammad Ali Center "Creating Our Future""
The Muhammad Ali Center will use funds to implement staff training activities to foster core professional competencies in K-12 character development and curriculum design. The project team will lead and manage the development of an accredited high school level course on "Creating Our Future" through the study and practice of the values presented through the Muhammad Ali Center in partnership with Jefferson County (KY) Public Schools and the University of Louisville through the Muhammad Ali Institute and the College of Education and Human Development. Stepping Stones Museum for Children

Speed Art Museum - Louisville, KY
Award Amount: $124,546; Matching Amount: $211,653
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Ms. Ruth Cloudman
Chief Curator
502-634-2717; rcloudman@speedmuseum.org

Project Title: "Speed Art Museum Library Streamlining Project"
The Speed Art Museum will expand the accessibility and enhance the operational effectiveness of the its art library by streamlining resources, providing computerized and physical access to materials to a larger community of users, and refocusing the museum’s library resources to better support its mission and collection. In partnership with the University of Louisville Libraries, the Speed’s art reference books, exhibition catalog, catalogues raisonnés, monographs, and certain serials will be recatalogued and made accessible in the University of Louisville’s online catalog and the broader OCLC system. A Library Collection Development Plan will be created and a circulation system will be established to increase accessibility.

Louisiana

Louisiana's Old State Capitol Foundation - Baton Rouge, LA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $224,326
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Mary Prudhomme
Executive Director
225-342-0500; mprudhomme@sos.louisiana.gov

Project Title: "River Capitol: The History of Baton Rouge"
Louisiana’s Old State Capitol will develop “River Capital: The History of Baton Rouge,” a community engagement project using exhibits and related programming to educate local and state audiences about the history and significance of Baton Rouge.

National World War II Museum - New Orleans, LA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $482,040
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Bob Farnsworth
Senior VP of Capital Projects
504-527-6012; bob.farnsworth@nationalww2museum.org

Project Title: "Engaging Communities - The National WWII Museum's Stage Door Canteen"
The National World War II Museum will offer daily, live performances at the Stage Door Canteen,where visitors will experience the music and entertainment during World War II. The education department will work with production staff to create shows that present the evolution of music, and create supporting materials that reinforce the information presented on stage.

Sci-Port: Louisiana's Science Center - Shreveport, LA
Award Amount: $66,948; Matching Amount: $70,216
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Ann Fumarolo
President/CEO
318-424-8662; afumarolo@sciport.org

Project Title: "A Paperless Sci-Port"
Sci-Port: Louisiana’s Science Center will enhance its organizational capability through software connectivity and automation of business processes. The goal of the project is to better serve school visitors and public with error-free automated scheduling, email confirmation of reservations, a Web-based donation module, and member data accessibility.The projectwill enhance the center’s capacity to meet its mission, allow for more effective marketing and evaluation, better staff preparedness, increased communication among departments, updated business processes, and staff training.

Maine

Beatrix Farrand Society - Bar Harbor, ME
Award Amount: $64,204; Matching Amount: $92,992
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. James Fuchs
Chairperson
410-370-0570; jcafuchs@mindspring.com

Project Title: "Rehabilitation of the Terrace Garden"
The Beatrix Farrand Society will use its grant to rebuild the Farrand-designed Terrace Garden at Garland Farm in Bar Harbor, Maine. The project helps fulfill the Society’s mission to rehabilitate and stabilize the historic property, educate and engage the public in the art and science of horticulture and landscape design, celebrate the life and work of pioneering landscape gardener Beatrix Farrand, and preserve the garden she designed and maintained.

Maryland

B & O Railroad Museum - Baltimore, MD
Award Amount: $110,000; Matching Amount: $190,642
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Courtney Wilson
Executive Director
410-752-2490 ext. 203; director@borail.org

Project Title: "Whistlestop Gateway Project"
The Whistlestop Gateway (WSG) Program of the B&O Railroad Museum will develop an interpretive program and a regular rail link to the west end of the museum’s 40-acre campus. Using the experiential learning opportunity presented by train travel, the WSG will provide a narrated train ride, greater access to attractions on and around the west B&O campus and a curriculum component for school groups. Once established, this project will be a regular public offering that is central to the museum’s mission of preserving the legacy and experience of American railroading.

Massachusetts

Andover Historical Society - Andover, MA
Award Amount: $137,722; Matching Amount: $157,664
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. Andrew Grilz
Curator
978-475-2236; agrilz@andoverhistorical.org

Project Title: "Collections Database"
The Andover Historical Society will transfer collections documentation from various paper records to a PastPerfect database. Photographs and/or scanned images will be added to relevant records. The IMLS award will provide the necessary staff support, technology improvements, and procedural structure to complete at least 10,000 records, and will provide the tools to establish a permanent process by which all records will be completed.

Nichols House Museum - Boston, MA
Award Amount: $39,675; Matching Amount: $39,955
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Flavia Cigliano
Executive Director
617-227-6993; nhm@earthlink.net

Project Title: "Interpreting a Beacon Hill Legacy"
The Nichols House Museum will use its award to undertake its first interpretive plan. The project will strengthen the museum’s ability to serve its public by defining activities to help its audiences make historic connections to the artifacts, images, processes, and structures they encounter at the site. The plan will structure fundamental unifying concepts and themes for future programming, educational outreach, scholarly research, and evaluative processes.

Bostonian Society - Boston, MA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $150,476
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Ms. Rainey Tisdale
Director, Old State House Museum
617-720-1713 ext. 24; rainey@bostonhistory.org

Project Title: "Expanding Public History Capacity at the Bostonian Society"
The Bostonian Society, Boston’s historical society and the steward of the Old State House, will use its IMLS award to hire a director of public history and an archivist to make it possible for the organization to conduct museum research internally and respond more fully to research requests from scholars and the general public. One primary task will be research in support of a new interpretive plan that is under development for the Old State House.

Museum of Science, Boston - Boston, MA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $450,000
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Paul Fontaine
Vice President of Programs
617-589-0116; pfontaine@mos.org

Project Title: "Technological Upgrades to the Charles Hayden Planetarium, Museum of Science"
The Museum of Science will purchase the Sky-Skan Definiti-Fulldome Video Planetarium and Multimedia System for the Museum’s renovated Charles Hayden Planetarium. The proposed system will use innovative digital projection controlled by a highly sophisticated software platform that will transform the planetarium into the most technically advanced digital theater in New England.

Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum - Boston, MA
Award Amount: $107,000; Matching Amount: $110,444
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Anna Lowi
Director of Marketing and Communication
617-278-5184; alowi@isgm.org

Project Title: "Creating Community through the Gardner Museum Web Site"
The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will use its award to redesign and rebuild its Web site, transforming it from a static source of information into a site where visitors can engage and experience the Gardner’s offerings across its five program areas. The goal of Creating Community through the Gardner Museum Web Site is to engage audiences via the Web in the same way that now occurs in the Gardner galleries. The initiative aims to build new communities online, providing for the education and enjoyment of the public and reaching out to involve and serve the community.

Zoo New England - Boston, MA
Award Amount: $120,000; Matching Amount: $342,797
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. James Brantley
Director of Community Relations
617-989-2017; jbrantley@zoonewengland.com

Project Title: "Zoo New England's ZooTeen Program"
Zoo New England will use its IMLS award to enhance its ZooTeen program which provides at-risk Boston teens with meaningful jobs, critical life and professional skills development, and the opportunity to learn about conservation-oriented careers in a safe and structured environment. Zoo New England will refine this immersion program and ensure that, in its second decade, the ZooTeen program will become even more effective in providing positive, transformative experiences for the youth of inner-city Boston. The success of this effort will have an impact beyond Boston, as ZooTeen is the model for similar zoo-based programs throughout the United States.

Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center - Gloucester, MA
Award Amount: $15,450; Matching Amount: $18,602
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Mary Kay Taylor
Education Coordinator
978-281-0470; mktaylor@gloucestermaritimecenter.org

Project Title: "The Working Waterfront Interpretive Program"
The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center's Working Waterfront Interpretive Program will maximize the learning opportunities associated with the exhibit “Fitting Out,” which will focus on the process of readying a fishing vessel to go to sea in 1900. Major project components include (1) the development and implementation of a docent training program; (2) preparation of a visitor activity guide expanding on the content of the exhibit; (3) fabrication of equipment for use in docent-led demonstrations and workshops, and (4) presentation of a lecture series featuring fishermen, scientists, and skilled tradesmen whose personal experiences complement the exhibit themes.

New Bedford Whaling Museum - New Bedford, MA
Award Amount: $147,529; Matching Amount: $177,689
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. Michael Dyer
Maritime Curator
508-997-0046; mdyer@whalingmuseum.org

Project Title: "NBWM Merchants Bank Collection Project"
The New Bedford Whaling Museum will catalogue a large collection of manuscript account books from Merchant’s Bank, one of New Bedford’s earliest financial institutions. The collection of over 1800 volumes represents a complete record of the daily and summary activities dating from the Bank’s inception in 1825 to its expansion as a national bank in 1865, through the end of the whaling era, during the height of textile production, and the years leading up to the Great Depression in the mid-1930s. A finding aid and Re:Discovery database will give researchers and the general public better access to these materials.

Heritage Museums and Gradens - Sandwich, MA
Award Amount: $144,393; Matching Amount: $199,243
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. Scott Swank
Executive Director
508-888-3300 ext. 143; sswank@heritagemuseums.org

Project Title: "Hertiage Museums and Gardens Hidden Hollow Education Program"
Heritage Museums and Gardens will use its IMLS award to develop educational and communications materials for the Hidden Hollow Education Program, which will be designed to complement the Hidden Hollow Family Adventure Garden, an outdoor education feature that will include 20 learning stations and structures in a woodland setting.

Norman Rockwell Museum - Stockbridge, MA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $303,805
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Stephanie Plunkett
Associate Director for Advancement
413-298-4100 ext. 233; mehern@nrm.org

Project Title: "ProjectNORMAN Public Access Initiative - Opening Norman Rockwell Museum's Collections to the Public in a Searchable Online Format on its Website"
The Norman Rockwell Museum will design and launch the public access phase of ProjectNORMAN, to open the Museum’s Rockwell collections database to the public in a searchable online format on its Web site. Project objectives include the development, design, and testing of a new online format, navigation and negotiation of intellectual property rights issues with property rights holders, advancing digitization for high-priority collections that are deteriorating, and public access to the vast Rockwell collections database via a searchable format on the museum’s Web site.

Williams College Museum of Art - Williamstown, MA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $401,522
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. John Stomberg
Deputy Director/Chief Curator
413-597-3220; John.R.Stomberg@williams.edu

Project Title: "Williams College Museum of Art: Digitization Project"
The Williams College Museum of Art will digitize 2,500 objects from the Museum’s ancient and world culture collection and make these images available to the public through the museum’s Web site and education outreach. This will be a pilot project in preparation for digitizing the Museum’s entire collection.

Michigan

Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum - Ann Arbor, MI
Award Amount: $136,490; Matching Amount: $136,512
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Ms. Nancy Bryk
Director, Education & Public Programs
734-995-5439 ext. 47; nbryk@aahom.org

Project Title: "Building Capacity for Delivering to New Audiences"
The Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum will create guest experiences and promote community ownership and engagement by conducting formative research to identify various audience segments, evaluating new programs, and building internal capacity for ongoing evaluation of programs and services. The Museum will identify new supplies and materials for programming, create manuals and training sessions for paid and unpaid staff, and strengthen community partnerships to deliver and develop new programs.

Michigan State University Museum - East Lansing, MI
Award Amount: $136,323; Matching Amount: $136,356
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Lynne Swanson
Collections Manager for Cultural Collections
517-355-3304; swansonl@msu.edu

Project Title: "Technological Enhancements to Improve Collections Data Quality and Access for Michigan State University Museum Collections (Phase 3)"
The Michigan State University Museum will complete critical database and technological enhancements for its natural history and cultural collections. Specifically, this multidisciplinary project will focus on reconciliation, standards conformance, and data cleaning of herpetology, ichthyology, and vertebrate paleontology collections records, as well as developing a geographic database of fish habitats. The project will include imaging making accessible on the Web than 10,000 ethnographic objects from the cultural collections.

Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts - Grand Rapids, MI
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $189,675
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Janet Teunis
Managing Director
616-454-7000; jteunis@uica.org

Project Title: "Talent, Technology and Youth"
The Urban Institute for Contemporary Arts will develop, implement, and evaluate affordable and comprehensive museum technologies and new media resources. The Museum will distill new media projects developed by larger museums into affordable, replicable models for other small, under-resourced museums. This project will also study how technology can impact all aspects of museum work focusing onsmall and mid-sized museums.

Kalamazoo Institute of Arts - Kalamazoo, MI
Award Amount: $41,730; Matching Amount: $46,567
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Robin Goodman
Registrar
269-349-7775 ext. 3133; robin_g@kiarts.org

Project Title: "Collections Digitization Project"
The Kalamazoo Institute of Arts will use its IMLS award to improve its collections management practices by digitizing its collections. The museum will establish a protocol for digitally documenting permanent collection, create digital images of the nearly 4,000 artworks, add these images to artwork records in the collection database, and develop resources to guide the future creation of digital images and metadata records.

Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University -
Award Amount: $33,325; Matching Amount: $33,572
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Marilyn Wheaton
Director
989-964-7154; mlwheaton@svsu.edu

Project Title: "Marshall M. Frederick's Sculpture Museum Archiving and Digitizing Project"
The Marshall M. Fredericks Sculpture Museum at Saginaw Valley State University will use its IMLS award to complete the processing, cataloging, and digitization of its archival collection to provide a searchable, metadata-driven online digital library. The project will ensure that scholars and researchers will have access to information that spans the 70 years of Marshall Fredericks’ sculpting career, which will provide ample opportunities for research and interpretation of one of America’s most prolific monumental sculptors. Completion of the project activities will increase the Museum’s capacity to improve the management of its collection to better serve the public, to celebrate the artistic legacy of Marshall M. Fredericks, and to foster appreciation of artistic expression for the educational and cultural enrichment of the community.

Minnesota

Goldstein Museum of Design - Minneapolis, MN
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $150,125
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Eunice Haugen
Registrar and Museum Coordinator
612-625-2737; hauge363@umn.edu

Project Title: "Design for Everyone: Increasing Access to Collections"
The Design for Everyone: Increasing Access to Collections project will increase access to and expand the use of the Goldstein Museum of Design’s collection of 26,200 designed objects by making digital images and information about the collection available online. The end product will be a Web-accessible, information-rich tool readily available for research and study. The project has two main components: creating digital images of the collection and replacing the current outdated collections database with Re:discovery Proficio, a collections management database that contains both descriptive and structural information about each object.

Minnesota Children's Museum - Saint Paul, MN
Award Amount: $137,581; Matching Amount: $478,001
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Jill Measells
VP of Learning Experiences
651-225-6018; jmeasells@mcm.org

Project Title: "Bound to Read"
The Minnesota Children’s Museum will use its IMLS award to create the Bound to Read exhibit, a centerpiece component of its literacy initiative, Building Early Literacy Together. Through Bound to Read, several popular, high-quality children’s books will be transformed into immersive environments that exemplify the joy of reading, and will reach an estimated 1 million children and adults over four years. The Museum’s goal is to encourage a deeper commitment to reading in families and to improve literacy skills for younger children.

Minnesota Historical Society - Saint Paul, MN
Award Amount: $130,745; Matching Amount: $150,000
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Brian Horrigan
Exhibition
651-259-3058; brian.horrigan@mnhs.org

Project Title: "The 1968 Project"
The Minnesota Historical Society will use its IMLS award to continue research and development for The 1968 Project, a collaborative program documenting and interpreting American life during this pivotal year. In partnership with three other historical institutions—the Atlanta History Center, the Chicago History Museum, and the Oakland Museum of California—the Society will conduct a nationwide search for stories, images, and objects that illuminate the great and small events of 1968. Products of this documentary project will include a traveling exhibition, a Web site, public and educational programs, and a film competition.

Stearns History Museum - St. Cloud, MN
Award Amount: $70,000; Matching Amount: $127,162
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Steven Penick
Curator
320-253-8424; curator@stearns-museum.org

Project Title: "Flowing Through Time: An Environmental History of Stearns County"
This award will support the project planning phase of the Stearns County Historical Society’s Flowing Through Time environmental history exhibit. Museum staff will work with an exhibit design firm, consultants, and community members to formulate the plan which will include floor layout/elevation drawings and final design drawings for all exhibit components. Also included will be exhibit text, interactive engineering, layout of graphic panels and artifacts, style sheets, and a schedule for fabrication and installation.

Mississippi

Lauren Rogers Museum of Art - Laurel, MS
Award Amount: $56,534; Matching Amount: $56,534
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Amanda Bucanan
Curator of Education
601-649-6374; mbuchanan@LRMA.org

Project Title: "ArtReach"
The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art will continue ArtReach, an education outreach program that engages a broad base of the community. By using the museum’s collections and exhibitions to create quality art experiences, ArtReach opens doors and piques interest in lifelong participation in the arts. Components include a full-time outreach coordinator, an artist-in-residence program for schools and community groups, art experiences for underserved segments of the community, a school tour program that includes activities and lesson plans correlating with the Mississippi Department of Education framework, an emerging artist program for secondary school students, and public art projects using community talent.

Missouri

Missouri State Museum - Jefferson City, MO
Award Amount: $147,145; Matching Amount: $167,412
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Dr. Linda Endersby
Assistant Director
573-751-2854; Linda.Endersby@dnr.mo.gov

Project Title: "Missouri State Museum Collections Inventory and Re-housing Project"
The Missouri State Museum of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources will inventory all collections in storage and exhibit areas. The Museum to achieve intellectual control over a large and nationally significant collection by determining the location and condition of the artifacts. Once completed, the Museum will be better able to preserve and interpret the collections, enhancing public knowledge of Missouri’s history.

Still National Osteopathic Museum - Kirksville, MO
Award Amount: $125,252; Matching Amount: $139,557
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mrs. Debra Loguda-Summers
Curator
660-626-2359; dsummers@atsu.edu

Project Title: "Osteopathic Heritage Collection Inventory Project (Phase 1)"
Still National Osteopathic Museum and National Center of Osteopathic History will inventory a collection that documents the origins, growth, and practice of osteopathic medicine, founded in 1874 by Dr. Andrew Taylor Still. The project will develop a comprehensive, uniquely numbered, and uniform online inventory with digitized images and will be presented worldwide through PastPerfect-Online.

Missouri Botanical Garden - St. Louis, MO
Award Amount: $146,600; Matching Amount: $155,095
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Dr. Robert Magill
Senior Vice President for Research
314-577-5161; bob.magill@mobot.org

Project Title: "Digitizing Engelmann's Legacy: Providing Web Access To Plant Specimens Documenting the Great American Frontier"
The Missouri Botanical Garden will digitize and create an online public display of the Engelmann Herbarium of plant specimens. The approximately 8,000 specimens gathered during pioneering expeditions into the American West following those of Lewis and Clark are the first scientific records of the plants growing in the vast wilderness west of the Mississippi River. The collection forms the earliest verifiable documentation of species occurrences in that pristine landscape, before the rapid migration west permanently altered the landscape through human introduction of non-native invasive species. These specimens will provide a historic complement to the 3.6 million specimens already accessible through Tropicos, the Missouri Botanical Garden’s botanical information system.

Montana

Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art - Great Falls, MT
Award Amount: $90,741; Matching Amount: $101,424
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. Robert Durden
Curator of Art
406-727-8255; bob@the-square.org

Project Title: "Cultural Stewardship: Paris Gibson Square Permanent Collection Registration and Documentation"
This project will give the Paris Gibson Square Museum of Art intellectual control over the objects in its permanent collection. Current collections information will be entered into a collections management software program to improve organizational data management and public access through a Web site interface. Also, a complete physical inventory and condition reports will occur, with collection documentation, provenance, and artist information thoroughly researched and compiled. Finally, all collection items will be digitally photo-documented to allow future interface with the museum’s Web site.

Nebraska

Lincoln Children's Zoo - Lincoln, NE
Award Amount: $35,650; Matching Amount: $42,952
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Ms. Mimi Wickless
Education Director
402-475-6741 ext. 130; mwickless@lincolnzoo.org

Project Title: "Zoo Crew Revitalization Project"
The Lincoln Children’s Zoo will revitalize the “Zoo Crew”, its youth volunteer program, by applying the principles in the “Nine to Nineteen Practitioners Guide” and the research highlighted in the Engaging America’s Youth Study. Upgrades will include revised recruitment and increased retention of participants, intensive and structured training experiences, integration of youth into all facets of zoo programming, utilization of Zoo Crew teams in the community, educating and empowering participants to be environmental stewards and increasing community awareness of and appreciation for youth engagement and leadership.

Durham Museum - Omaha, NE
Award Amount: $122,850; Matching Amount: $227,871
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Carrie Wieners
Curator of Exhibits and Collections
402-444-5071; cweiners@durhammuseum.org

Project Title: "Digitization and Preservation of the Durham Museum Photo Archive"
The Durham Museum will digitize and preserve its photo archive collection, which consists of approximately 500,000 images reflecting the history of Omaha, Nebraska. Most of the photographs and negatives are more than 100 years old and in various stages of deterioration and could be lost unless they are documented for future generations. The project defines a long-term strategy for the collection’s organization, preservation and handling, automated indexing, and digitization.

Nevada

Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation's Atomic Testing Museum - Las Vegas, NV
Award Amount: $34,933; Matching Amount: $45,143
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Ms. Ginger Swartz
Senior Program Manager
702-794-5118; ginger.swartz@ntshf.org

Project Title: "The Atomic Testing Museum: Strengthening the Institution to Better Serve the Community"
The Nevada Test Site Historical Foundation will use its IMLS award for basic but critical personnel administration, planning, and policy development that will enhance the capacity of the Atomic Testing Museum to better serve the southern Nevada cultural and educational community. This planning project is based on establishing a best practices approach to the day-to-day business of the organization.

New Hampshire

American Independence Center - Exeter, NH
Award Amount: $18,059; Matching Amount: $18,147
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Gail Nessell Colglazier
Executive Director
603-772-2622; gncolglazier@yahoo.com

Project Title: "Collections Inventory and Catalogue"
The American Independence Center will create a digitized catalog of the collection to use for education, collections management, interpretative and exhibit planning, and presentations. The catalog will be available via computer in the museum and will eventually be made available online for the public. Project team members will receive training in museum collections management standards, digital photography, and data entry skills. The project will include transferring records from an existing database in File Maker Pro to the PastPerfect database and entering information from paper records into PastPerfect.

New Jersey

Hoboken Historical and Cultural Center - Hoboken, NJ
Award Amount: $53,218; Matching Amount: $56,233
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Robert Foster
Museum Director
201-656-2240; director@hobokenmuseum.org

Project Title: "Open River: Hoboken Historical Museum Hudson Riverfront Program"
The Hoboken Historical and Cultural Center will develop educational programming for its Open River program, which uses the Hoboken River Walk as an interpretive tool to understand and explore Hoboken’s physical and cultural heritage. Implementing a cell phone tour, outdoor didactic plaques, public event programming, and a strategic plan for Sybil’s Cave, the Center will be better able to share local heritage with new audiences, furthering the museum’s mission of promoting, studying, and preserving Hoboken heritage. Open River is a waterfront programming extension of the 2009 Hudson Fulton Anniversaries Celebration.

New Mexico

New Mexico Museum of Natural History and Science - Albuquerque, NM
Award Amount: $133,170; Matching Amount: $133,492
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Jessica Sapunar-Jursich
Director of Education
505-841-2836; jessica.sapunar-jursich@state.nm.us

Project Title: "Community Science Connections: Museums, Libraries and Families"
Community Science Connections: Museums, Libraries and Families is a partnership project carried out by five museum-library teams to engage families in ongoing learning activities and focus on creating inviting and comfortable venues for those who do not frequent museums and libraries. The project builds on past successes. The objective is to reach farther into the community and get libraries involved and then strengthen ties among museums, libraries, and families. Partners include the: Albuquerque/Bernalillo County Library System, Maxwell Museum of Anthropology, National Atomic Museum, New Mexico State Library, and Planetarium.

Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad - Albuquerque, NM
Award Amount: $59,000; Matching Amount: $59,000
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Nan Clark
Vice President of Museum Functions
505-880-1311; cinerail@aol.com

Project Title: "Friends of the Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad Master Interpretive Planning Process"
The Cumbres & Toltec Scenic Railroad will develop a master interpretive plan that encompasses the entire 64-mile route of this historic railroad. The plan will be completed in three major phases: exposition, development, and documentation.

New Mexico History Museum - Santa Fe, NM
Award Amount: $147,478; Matching Amount: $150,480
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. Frances Levine
Director
505-476-5093; flevine@mnm.state.nm.us

Project Title: "New Museum, New Audience"
The New Mexico History Museum IMLS award will be used to broaden the scope and impact of the New Mexico History Museum beyond its walls. Collaborating with PBS affiliate KNME in Albuquerque, the project will create 15 three-to five-minute “mini-documentaries” featuring Hispanic, Native American, Anglo American, and other peoples, emphasizing the state’s rich cultural heritage. The documentaries will be viewed by museum visitors in a 205-seat auditorium, broadcast by KNME to more than 680,000 possible viewers in central and northern New Mexico, rebroadcast by two PBS stations to reach the entire state, and be available on the History Museum and KNME Web sites.

New York

Mount Gulian Society - Beacon, NY
Award Amount: $106,539; Matching Amount: $119,813
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Elaine Hayes
Director
845-831-8172; ehayes@mountgulian.org

Project Title: "The James F. Brown Story"
The Mount Gulian Society will tell the story of James F. Brown, an escaped slave whose freedom was purchased by a prominent Hudson River Valley family. Based on Brown’s 40-year journal, the Society will develop a new program for adults, families, and underserved communities. Project elements include research, production of an audiovisual presentation, piloting of a first-person interpretation program, evaluations, and full interpretive program implementation.

Brooklyn Children's Museum - Brooklyn, NY
Award Amount: $146,804; Matching Amount: $148,404
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Kayla Dove
Director of Education
718-735-4400; kdove@brooklynkids.org

Project Title: "Green Threads"
The Brooklyn Children’s Museum will use its IMLS award to develop Green Threads, an initiative that will provide programs and resources to connect its audience to environmental science. Green Threads will leverage the green concepts embedded in the museum’s physical spaces to teach children about environmental stewardship, increasing their awareness of what it means to think green and helping build the essential critical thinking and inquiry skills they will use as citizens to make choices about their interactions with their communities and with the physical world.

Weeksville Heritage Center - Brooklyn, NY
Award Amount: $113,000; Matching Amount: $119,726
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Ms. Pamela Green
Executive Director
718-623-0600; pam@weeksvillesociety.org

Project Title: "Educational Development and Expansion Project"
The Weeksville Heritage Center will use its IMLS award to hire a full-time education manager. The education manger will provide professional development for the program team, develop and execute the plans for the museum’s new resource cCenter, create a curriculum that will be disseminated to schoolchildren across the country, and develop new education programs to better serve the community.

Brooklyn Information & Culture's Rotunda Gallery - Brooklyn, NY
Award Amount: $129,220; Matching Amount: $332,884
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Elizabeth Ferrer
Director
718-875-4047 ext. 15; eferrer@briconline.org

Project Title: "BRIC Rotunda Gallery: Process Made Visible"
Brooklyn Information and Culture’s Rotunda Gallery will use its IMLS award to support Process Made Visible, an initiative that will more closely integrate BRIC’s Rotunda Gallery’s exhibition and education programs, strengthen students’ understanding of the creative process, and cultivate a larger, more diverse audience for the gallery.

Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences - Brooklyn, NY
Award Amount: $84,588; Matching Amount: $341,767
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Rob Krulak
Senior Development Officer
718-501-6489; rob.krulak@brooklynmuseum.org

Project Title: "Brooklyn Museum Gateway Gallery"
The Brooklyn Institute of Arts and Sciences will develop and implement a Gateway Gallery that will provide an overview of the Museum’s holdings in a 3,600-square-foot space. The objectives of the Gateway Gallery are to orient visitors to the nature and scope of the Museum’s collections, enable people to sample the Museum’s diverse holdings during a brief visit, and help visitors with limited experience in comprehensive art museums understand the geographical and chronological organization of the Museum. The gallery will also propose modes of understanding the collections that complement the art historical structures of the Museum’s permanent collection installations with explorations of themes that transcend historical eras.

Adirondack History Center Museum - Elizabethtown, NY
Award Amount: $138,000; Matching Amount: $138,021
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Jenifer Kuba
Assistant Director
518-873-6466; jkuba@adkhistorycenter.org

Project Title: "Exhibit Planning and Community Integration"
The Adirondack History Center Museum will research, develop, and assess three current permanent exhibition spaces by using an exhibition team and community members to generate ideas regarding new and improved interpretive themes, culminating in the development of an exhibition/interpretive plan summary.

Louis Armstrong House Museum - Flushing, NY
Award Amount: $105,384; Matching Amount: $126,575
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. Michael Cogswell
Director of the Louis Armstrong House Museum
718-997-3670; michael.cogswell@qc.cuny.edu

Project Title: "Processing of the Louis Armstrong Collections Project"
The Louis Armstrong House Museum will use its IMLS award to process the recently acquired Jack Bradley collection. Also, the Museum will convert the cataloging of four of its collections from Microsoft Access to PastPerfect, and then upload the PastPerfect catalog records to the Museum’s Web site. Once the project is completed, the Museum’s five collections will provide its public with a fully and easily accessible body of resources on Armstrong’s life and legacy.

Long Island Children's Museum - Garden City, NY
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $287,971
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Suzanne LeBlanc
Executive Director
516-224-5811; sleblanc@licm.org

Project Title: "Be Together, Learn Together"
The Long Island Children’s Museum will use its award to implement the first phase of a new program to support children and families served by Nassau County social service agencies. The program, Be Together, Learn Together, has been developed in partnership with the Nassau County Department of Health and Human Services, Nassau County Family Court, and a national advisory committee. Implementation of Be Together, Learn Together will be the result of an intensive two-year planning and prototyping phase and will strengthen the museum’s ability to engage underserved segments of the community by using new partnerships to offer programs that respond directly to the needs of these families.

Slate Valley Museum - Granville, NY
Award Amount: $13,440; Matching Amount: $13,539
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Mary Lou Willits
Director
518-642-1417; mlw@slatevalleymuseum.org

Project Title: "Slate Valley Museum Accessibility Enhancement"
The Slate Valley Museum will use its IMLS award to support its Collection Accessibility Enhancement Project, an initiative to create a fully accessible core of primary document materials for staff, volunteers, and visitors. The project will orient volunteers and staff to the collection and train them how to use the PastPerfect collection database system, catalogue three collection areas, and enhance the existing database with more detailed object information and images. These improvements will provide more opportunities for research and lay the foundation for future initiatives that will enable the museum to reach an even larger audience.

Iroquois Indian Museum - Howes Cave, NY
Award Amount: $59,928; Matching Amount: $62,831
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Stephanie Shultes
Curator
518-296-8949; info@iroquoismuseum.org

Project Title: "Virtual Exhibits on the Electronic Longhouse Part 2"
This project will build upon previously funded work to create a series of 15 virtual exhibits as a digital resource on the Museum’s Web site. Funding will allow the Museum to refine and complete the first nine exhibits and develop the remaining six. These virtual exhibits are interactive and focus on topics useful to teachers and students who are learning about Iroquois culture. The exhibits will also be expanded so they are appropriate for adult learners and researchers.

Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University - Ithaca, NY
Award Amount: $132,546; Matching Amount: $137,005
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Cathy Klimaszewski
Ames Assc. Dir for Programs & Curator of Education
607-254-4627; crk7@cornell.edu

Project Title: "Interpretive Technology for the Visible Storage Study Center at the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University"
The Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art will implement a Web-based iPod touch guide for a planned Visible Storage Study Center at the Museum. The Museum will also redesign its Web site, including new methods of presenting its objects and exhibits. The guide and the Web site will provide the public with broader access to the collections and deliver expanded interpretation of works of art in an engaging format.

Columbia County Historical Society - Kinderhook, NY
Award Amount: $101,344; Matching Amount: $101,452
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Ann-Eliza Lewis
Executive Director
518-758-9265; director@cchsny.org

Project Title: "Expanding History Education Opportunities in Columbia County, NY"
Expanding History Education Opportunities in Columbia County, NY is designed to help the Columbia County Historical Society meet its goal to be the primary resource for advancing the interpretation and preservation of Columbia County’s history and culture, and to provide quality educational opportunities to all residents of this diverse county. The Society will design and implement an object-based curriculum for schools and families that integrates the Society’s collections of art, objects, and buildings with the needs of students, teachers, and the general public. The expanded education team will evaluate current offerings, develop new in-school and in-museum programs, and expand the society’s adult programs.

Center for Book Arts - New York, NY
Award Amount: $45,000; Matching Amount: $81,240
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Alexander Campos
Executive Director
212-481-0295; acampos@centerforbookarts.org

Project Title: "Collections Documentation and Digitization Project"
The Center for Book Arts will undertake a comprehensive collections documentation and Web access project. This project will use the Internet to support a database of the Center’s archives and collections that will be accessible and free to a wide audience of students, teachers, artists, scholars, and the general public. The project will result in a Web-based archive offering details of more than 190 exhibitions by more than 5,000 artists, an image-rich online collections database of 1,100 art objects, and an online database of the Center’s research library of 440 volumes.

New York City Police Museum - New York, NY
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $246,949
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Julie Bose
Executive Director
212-480-3100 ext. 105; jbose@nycpolicemuseum.org

Project Title: "The Little Officers Discovery Zone"
The New York City Police Museum will develop The Little Officers Discovery Zone, a permanent exhibition introducing families with children ages 3–10 years to the New York City Police Department. The exhibition will provide age-appropriate opportunities for active exploration of the diverse skills, jobs, roles, equipment, and routines of New York City police officers.

Children's Museum of the Arts - New York, NY
Award Amount: $113,275; Matching Amount: $128,500
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Robin Lockwood
Assistant Director
212-274-0986; rparkslockwood@cmany.org

Project Title: "The Kuniyoshi Collection: The WPA Children's Art Project Through A Modern Lens"
The Children’s Museum of the Arts will develop an exhibit entitled, The Kuniyoshi Collection: The WPA Children’s Art Project Through a Modern Lens, an exhibit that will create an intergenerational dialogue between New Yorkers of the late 1930s and children and families of today. The exhibit will feature 19 paintings from the Museum’s permanent collection created by children in the post-Depression era under the Works Progress Administration’s Federal Art Project. The Museum will juxtapose these paintings with 19 new ones created by children today in an art educational residency based on the WPA model. When showcased side by side, these works will exemplify changes and continuities of New York City history over the past 70 years.

Art in General - New York, NY
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $615,870
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Anne Barlow
Executive Director
212-219-0473 ext. 36; anne@artingeneral.org

Project Title: "New Commissions Educational Initiatives"
Art in General will use its award to implement its New Commissions Educational Initiatives, an enhanced series of publications and online initiatives that will actively engage artists and audiences with the process and content of the program. These initiatives will directly support Art in General’s core activities and strategic goals, significantly strengthening its ability to serve the public.

American Museum of Natural History - New York, NY
Award Amount: $148,930; Matching Amount: $155,758
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Lisa Elkin
Conservator
212-313-7035; lelkin@amnh.org

Project Title: "Assessing Risk to the American Museum of Natural History's Collections on Exhibit"
The American Museum of Natural History will conduct a risk assessment of collections currently displayed in its 46 permanent halls. The primary goal of the project is to prioritize the needs of the collections on exhibit in an objective and relational way, providing a basis for strategic collections care planning. The assessment will result in more efficient risk-mitigation strategies and will provide the foundation for a long-term plan.

International Center of Photography - New York, NY
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $523,447
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Steve Rooney
Deputy Director for Administration
212-857-0020; srooney@icp.org

Project Title: "ICP-IPP (Institutional Planning Process)"
The International Center of Photography will implement a multifaceted institutional planning process that builds on previous strategic planning and responds to the pressing need for a permanent facility. The project will include: internal program planning, audience research, needs analysis, preliminary space planning, business planning, and gathering detailed input from peers and peer organizations.

Strong National Museum of Play - Rochester, NY
Award Amount: $149,760; Matching Amount: $164,003
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. Jon-Paul Dyson
Vice President Exhibit Research & Development
585-410-6341; jpdyson@museumofplay.org

Project Title: "America at Play Exhibit: Phase I - Planning and Design"
The Strong National Museum of Play will plan an exhibit entitled “America at Play,” an interpretive, interactive exhibit to replace its existing study collections. The exhibit will provide a comprehensive overview of play in America over the past 200 years. The exhibit will be enhanced by a searchable online play history gallery, featuring firsthand accounts of people’s recollections of, about their favorite games and other playthings, as well as the many dimensions of non-toy-based play.

Memorial Art Gallery - Rochester, NY
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $221,142
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Susan Daiss
Director of Education
585-276-8969; sdaiss@mag.rochester.edu

Project Title: "Windows on the World: Bringing the World Within Reach with Windows Mobile Technology"
The Memorial Art Gallery will launch Windows on the World, a major interpretive initiative using 21st century multimedia technology to coincide with the reinstallation of three key areas of its permanent collection: the arts of the Ancient World, the Renaissance, and Asia. The Gallery will develop a series of electronic templates that staff and a team of consultants will use as building blocks to design multimedia activities for visitors. These activities, which range from guided looking experiences to the delivery of historical information, will be delivered on handheld multimedia devices.

Staten Island Children's Museum - Staten Island, NY
Award Amount: $50,000; Matching Amount: $66,405
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Addy Manipella
Director of Education
718-273-2060 ext. 265; amanipella@sichildrensmuseum.org

Project Title: "Staten Island Children's Museum School Based Initiative (SBI) Phase II"
The Staten Island Children’s Museum’s School-Based Initiative Phase II project will formalize the Museum’s newly developed in-school residency curriculum into a manual for museum educators, pre/post materials for students and teachers, and a Web site for teachers. The project will also include a professional development program for teachers that will complement the school curriculum, parental programs that complement what children learn in the residency programs; and an evaluation tool that will be used to assess the overall School-Based Initiative.

North Carolina

Greensboro Children's Museum - Greensboro, NC
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $342,102
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Betsy Grant
Chief Executive Officer
336-574-2898; bgrant@gcmuseum.com

Project Title: "Step by Step: An Initiative to Promote Healthy Families"
As part of the Greensboro Children’s Museum’s major new initiative—Step by Step: An Initiative to Promote Healthy Families, three main components will be developed including two acres of new outdoor educational space with an Edible Schoolyard, organic gardens, teaching kitchens and an Outdoor Learning Environment; a 1,500-square-foot indoor interactive exhibition about physical activity entitled Get Out and Play, and related educational programming.

Catawba Science Center - Hickory, NC
Award Amount: $148,975; Matching Amount: $166,312
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Emily Kanipe
STEP Coordinator
828-322-8169; STEP@catawbascience.org

Project Title: "Science To Go"
The Catawba Science Center will use its award to develop the Science to Go program. Using the Science Center’s regularly scheduled temporary exhibitions as a content base, Center staff will develop open-ended, inquiry-driven science activities to be presented at the Center and as outreach programs. These programs will be developed with input from middle school and high school students from the Center’s after-school teen program, whose participants reflect the racial and economic diversity of the greater Hickory community.

Hickory Museum of Art - Hickory, NC
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $188,025
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Nikol Wuest
Registar/Curator
828-327-8576; nwuest@hickorymuseumofart.org

Project Title: "Homegrown and Handmade: Southern Contemporary Folk Art at the Hickory Museum of Art"
The Hickory Museum of Art will develop an exhibit entitled, Homegrown and Handmade, featuring the Museum’s southern contemporary folk art collection. Themes include North Carolina and southeastern U.S. history and material culture, nature, religion, and creativity.

Burwell School Historic Site - Hillsborough, NC
Award Amount: $30,819; Matching Amount: $34,336
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Katharine Paulhamus
Executive Director
919-732-7451; director@burwellschool.org

Project Title: "Burwell School Digital Archive and Research Project"
The Burwell School Digital Archive and Research Project will bring portions of the school’s well-established archive to the public through an open-access digital archive. The archive includes information about the people who lived or studied at the Burwell School between 1837 and 1857, when the Burwells ran their landmark academy for young women. The project will also undertake new research on the former residents and students of the school, which will be incorporated into the digital archive.

Imagination Station Science Museum - Wilson, NC
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $502,907
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Jonathan Brooks
Executive Director
252-291-5113; jbrooks@imaginescience.org

Project Title: "Exhibitions Master Plan: Putting Science into Context"
Imagination Station Science Museum will develop a new exhibitions master plan and complete the first phase of exhibition fabrication. This project will redefine the museum by transforming the nature of its educational services and experiences. It will emphasize the demonstration of scientific principles in the context of applied sciences by focusing on how scientific research in the region affects people in eastern North Carolina and around the globe.

Ohio

Franklin Park Conservatory - Columbus, OH
Award Amount: $147,516; Matching Amount: $179,786
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Michael Heglaw
Director of Education and Interpretation
614-645-8744; mheglaw@fpconservatory.org

Project Title: "Franklin Park Conservatory Community Gardener Training Program"
The Franklin Park Conservatory Community Gardener Training Program will be a five-track educational program designed to help community gardeners and teachers start, strengthen, and sustain community and school garden projects in their neighborhoods that will positively affect the residents, communities, and students. The five tracks in the program will be horticulture, green practices and sustainability, community and garden leadership, health and nutrition, and school gardens. . During this project, 20 courses will be developed. Project evaluation and assessment conducted during the project will help inform the subsequent development of other courses and allow for ongoing assessment of the courses and the program.

Ohio Historical Society - Columbus, OH
Award Amount: $149,997; Matching Amount: $201,385
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Elizabeth Nelson
Curator
614-297-2512; enelson@ohiohistory.org

Project Title: "Connecting Ohio's History Phase 2"
The Ohio Historical Society will improve physical and intellectual control of its history collections by producing 7,500 new or revised records in the society’s online collections catalog, completing an inventory of the collections storage warehouses, and researching the feasibility of bar codes use or radio frequency identification tags for their museum collections.

Dayton Society of Natural History - Dayton, OH
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $150,000
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Cheryl Adams
Director of Astronomy
937-275-7431 ext. 122; cadams@boonshoftmuseum.org

Project Title: "Hall of the Universe: Sun Room"
The Dayton Society of Natural History, which operates the Boonshoft Museum of Discovery, will develop and install five interactive components in the Sun Room portion of the Hall of the Universe exhibition. The Sun Room will be part of the “What Is Our Place in Space?” section of the exhibition, which focuses on the solar system. The interactive components will be a 32-inch Sun Sphere, a Heliostat (solar telescope), a Cloud Chamber, a Star Cube, and a Dynamic Sun Kiosk.

Massillon Museum - Massillon, OH
Award Amount: $39,930; Matching Amount: $88,735
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Alexandra Nicholis
Curator
330-833-4061; anicholis@massillonmuseum.org

Project Title: "Massillon Museum's face from Rural America Project"
The Massillon Museum will conduct a research project focused on two important American photographers, Belle Johnson and Henry Clay Fleming, whose works represent more than 1,500 images in the Museum’s permanent collection. These photographers operated their studios in the early 20th century in Monroe City, Missouri, and Ravenswood, West Virginia. Museum staff will visit the towns in which these photographers practiced their craft in order to collect oral histories. The Museum will work in collaboration with libraries and historical societies in these towns to facilitate the project, which will result in scholarly articles, exhibits and corresponding catalogs, and online educational components.

Oregon

Museum of Natural and Cultural History, University of Oregon - Eugene, OR
Award Amount: $148,476; Matching Amount: $200,665
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Dr. Jon Erlandson
Director, MNCH
541-346-5115; jerland@uoregon.edu

Project Title: "UO Museum of Natural and Cultural History Renovation and Reorganization"
The University of Oregon’s Museum of Natural and Cultural History will use their IMLS award to reorganize the Museum’s facilities and collections in its collections center. The reorganization will improve long-term care, management, and access.

Portland Children's Museum - Portland, OR
Award Amount: $98,000; Matching Amount: $187,274
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Ingrid Anderson
Director of Education
503-471-9915; ianderson@portlandcm.org

Project Title: "Arts in Focus Expansion to Provide Access for Low-Income Families"
The Portland Children’s Museum will expand its Arts in Focus program to provide arts education for Title I schools, Head Start, and other underserved education institutions in the Portland Tri-County area. The project will enable museum educators to train more than 100 teachers a year to integrate arts into the classroom curriculum. Museum educators will hold classroom residencies for over 2,100 pre-K through sixth-grade children each year to ensure they receive the arts education necessary for healthy cognitive, social, emotional, and physical development. Museum educators will also provide teachers and classes with Traveling Trunks of art supplies to ensure that art is integrated into the classroom throughout the year.

Pennsylvania

Historic Bethlehem Partnership - Bethlehem, PA
Award Amount: $57,650; Matching Amount: $78,175
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Bonnie Stacy
Curator of Collections and Exhibitions
610-882-0450 ext. 27; bstacy@historicbethlehem.org

Project Title: "Kemerer Museum pre-construction inventory and packing project"
The Historic Bethlehem Partnership will inventory, pack, and move the collections of the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Art to a new Collections Resource Center. This will result in a substantial increase in the ability of the Partnership to ensure the long-term preservation of the collections belonging to them and its four affiliates: Burnside Plantation Inc., Historic Bethlehem Inc., the Kemerer Museum of Decorative Art, and the Moravian Museum of Bethlehem. The enlarged and improved facility will allow increased public access to collections and archives that have been underused because of inadequate space.

Pennsbury Society - Morrisville, PA
Award Amount: $149,797; Matching Amount: $263,904
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Mary Ellyn Kunz
Museum Educator
215-946-0400; mkunz@state.pa.us

Project Title: "Be Our Guest!"
The Be Our Guest! project will enable Pennsbury Manor to offer customized, audience-centered programming. This phase of the project will include prototyping and initial implementation and is the first phase of a multiyear change in site interpretation recommended in Pennsbury’s IMLS-funded Comprehensive Site Interpretive Plan. Through training and ongoing evaluation, it will focus on creating a welcoming environment that encourages visitors to tailor their experience at Pennsbury to their own needs and interests.

National Constitution Center - Philadelphia, PA
Award Amount: $139,329; Matching Amount: $139,329
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. Stephen Frank
Vice President of Education and Exhibits
215-409-6633; sfrank@constitutioncenter.org

Project Title: "Civil War Exhibition"
The National Constitution Center will take the lead role in producing a signature Civil War exhibition that is being coordinated by a statewide coalition. The exhibition is scheduled to open in the spring of 2011 and then travel for four years in conjunction with the Civil War Sesquicentennial. The exhibition will be hosted by the center’s two formal partners—the State Museum of Pennsylvania in Harrisburg and the Senator John Heinz Center in Pittsburgh—before embarking on a tour across the nation and, perhaps, abroad. The Center will identify and acquire appropriate artifacts for the exhibition, create content outlines and research briefs, and arrange loan agreements.

Mattress Factory - Pittsburgh, PA
Award Amount: $145,881; Matching Amount: $146,970
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Anna Mikolay
Education Director
412-231-3169; anna@mattress.org

Project Title: "Mattress Factory Learning Resource Program"
The Mattress Factory will collaborate with educators, digital design specialists, and artists to create the Learning Resource Program, a multimedia educational resource for loan to K–12 classroom teachers and educational and service institutions. The Learning Resource Program will enable classroom teachers and other educators to facilitate classroom experiences that explore the concepts and issues of installation art, providing opportunities for students and educators to think critically about the spaces we live in, and the ways we absorb information about those spaces.

Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania - Pittsburgh, PA
Award Amount: $90,859; Matching Amount: $91,277
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Dr. Alexis Macklin
Director, Library and Archives
412-454-6305; asmacklin@hswp.org

Project Title: "Life in Western Pennsylvania: A Digital History Resource"
Life in Western Pennsylvania: A Digital History Resource will address the critical need for assessment tools for planning digital history sites and measuring the impact of online resources to increase the use of archival collections. Using a digital repository of more than 800 images of western Pennsylvania from 1840 to 1970, and 12 films that include stock footage from the 1940s through the 1990s, this project will create a model for incorporating digital history content into the K–12 curriculum.

Puerto Rico

Dr. Pio Lopez Martinez Museum of Art at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey - Cayey,
Award Amount: $138,102; Matching Amount: $169,811
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. Humberto Figueroa
Director
787-738-2161 ext. 2669; humberto.figueroa@upr.edu

Project Title: "Registry and Digitization Project of the Dr. Pio Lopez Martinez Museum of Art's Frade Legacy Collection"
The Dr. Pio Lopez Martinez Museum of Art at the University of Puerto Rico at Cayey will catalog and digitize its permanent Frade Legacy collection, consisting of more than 4,000 prints, photographs, drawings, paintings, books, documents, printed matter, memorabilia, furniture, tools, and other objects from the estate of Ramon Frade (1875–1954), a prolific Puerto Rican artist. The project will give the Museum’s audiences greater access to the collection, enabling further study, research, and dissemination, and will expand opportunities for the appreciation and recognition of Frade and his works, and their importance within the social, historical, cultural, and artistic heritage of Cayey, Puerto Rico, and the Caribbean.

Rhode Island

Rhode Island Historical Society - Providence, RI
Award Amount: $99,450; Matching Amount: $103,977
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Karen Eberhart
Library Director/Manuscripts Curator
401-273-8107 ext. 20; keberhart@rihs.org

Project Title: "Graphics Division Inventory"
The Rhode Island Historical Society will inventory, survey, and create collection-level cataloging records for the audiovisual materials in the Society’s Graphics Division.

South Carolina

Culture and Heritage Commission of York County - Rock Hill, SC
Award Amount: $148,875; Matching Amount: $379,090
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Owen Glendening
Deputy Director for Interpretation
803-329-2121 ext. 139; oglendening@chmuseums.org

Project Title: "Cultural & Heritage Museums Naturalist Center"
The Cultural and Heritage Commission of York County will transform the Museum’s static natural history dioramas and exhibits into active, inquiry-based learning experiences by using real specimens and scientific investigation. CHM will create new activities for families and children and enriched elementary school field trip curricula. The Museum will also collaborate with middle school teachers to create a curriculum-based program for middle school students that meets state curriculum standards.

South Dakota

Sioux Falls Zoo - Sioux Falls, SD
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $160,120
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Dan Simon
Vice President - Operations
605-367-7003; dsimon@gpzoo.org

Project Title: "Eastern Black Rhino Interpretive Program"
The Sioux Falls Zoo will research and develop a curriculum as part of their Eastern Black Rhino Interpretive Program, to be used in a variety of interpretive displays and materials, both at the zoo and online to teachers and students. This initiative will tie directly to the Zoo’s Eastern Black Rhinoceros exhibit. The Zoo will produce displays, touchscreen kiosks, take-home materials, and a 90-page multidisciplinary curriculum package aligned with national education standards. This project will educate people onsite and virtually each year about rhinos, captive breeding programs, habitat loss, endangered species, and human cultural impacts on wild animal populations.

Tennessee

Children's Museum Corporation of Rutherford County's Discovery Center -
Award Amount: $18,154; Matching Amount: $18,163
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Mrs. Billie Little
Executive Director
615-890-2300; blittledisccenter@comcast.net

Project Title: "Technology & Staff Training to Enhance Visitor Experience"
The Discovery Center will use its IMLS award to purchase new visitor and membership technology and for staff training to strengthen and upgrade its ability to serve the community. The technology upgrade will improve the Center’s efficiency, increase its cost-effectiveness, create an easier, faster check-in system for members, and enable the Center to collect critical demographic and statistical information about its visitors.

Texas

Dallas Museum of Art - Dallas, TX
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $153,540
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Nicole Stutzman
Director of Learning Partnerships
214-922-1313; nstutzman@dallasmuseumofart.org

Project Title: "Connect: Teachers, Technology, and Art"
The Dallas Museum of Art will use its award to serve teachers in the Dallas and greater North Texas community by developing, in collaboration with teachers, a model for converting, producing, and delivering dynamic web-based teaching units for classroom use. This content will incorporate newly published research on the African and South Asian collections and results from a 2007 study on how teachers learn and teach with works of art.

Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum of the University of North Texas - Denton, TX
Award Amount: $140,000; Matching Amount: $140,124
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Professor James Kennedy
Professor
940-565-2981; kennedy@unt.edu

Project Title: "Digitization of the Freshwater Mussels of Texas"
The Elm Fork Natural Heritage Museum of the University of North Texas will use its IMLS award to digitize a regionally important collection of freshwater mussels. Freshwater mussels are keystone species in aquatic ecosystems, and many species are either threatened or endangered.

Museum of Fine Arts, Houston - Houston, TX
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $164,610
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Mr. David Aylsworth
Collections Registrar
713-639-7824; daylsworth@mfah.org

Project Title: "MFAH Data Standards Project"
The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston will use its IMLS award to strengthen the museum’s collection management system through the establishment, implementation, and evaluation of metadata and data content, value, and entry standards. The Data Standards Project will enhance the museum’s institutional capacity to better serve the community and further its public service mission by maintaining and improving the management of the museum’s permanent collection.

Utah

Utah State University's Museum of Anthropology - Logan, UT
Award Amount: $57,679; Matching Amount: $57,696
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. Bonnie Pitblado
Director
435-797-1496; bpitblado@hass.usu.edu

Project Title: "Saturdays at the Museum"
Utah State University’s Museum of Anthropology will continue its Saturdays at the Museum program, which gives visitors the opportunity to visit the exhibits and participate in exhibit-related story hours, craft activities, special presentations, and other programming. This program has been embraced by the community, and has provided an excellent learning opportunity for Certificate in Museum Studies students, who plan and implement the activities.

Treehouse Children's Museum - Ogden, UT
Award Amount: $70,761; Matching Amount: $102,693
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Spencer Cobabe
Early Childhood Education Coordinator
801-394-9663; scobabe@treehousemuseum.org

Project Title: "A Knight at the Museum"
The Treehouse Children’s Museum’s project, A Knight at the Museum, will provide opportunities for families of children enrolled in area Head Start programs and in local public schools to participate in a learning quest centered around the museum’s resources. A series of Treehouse programs that model activities and provide information to motivate reading and learning together at home will be complemented by a new exhibit area that will tie in with the theme of the project. Family literacy activities involve both the young child and the parent as learners in ways that support the acquisition and development of pre-reading and early reading skills.

Brigham Young University Museum of Art - Provo, UT
Award Amount: $136,396; Matching Amount: $136,400
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. Campbell Gray
Director
801-422-8257; campbell_gray@byu.edu

Project Title: "Planning and Development Grant fro Islamic Exhibition"
Grant funds will be used for planning an Islamic art exhibition. Activities include research, travel and consultation to refine the exhibition thesis and to identify and procure the loan of works from collections in fourteen countries. Grant funding will also be used to support an initial baseline survey focusing on audience perceptions of Islamic culture to aid the exhibition plan¬ning effort.

Utah Museum of Natural History - Salt Lake City, UT
Award Amount: $141,763; Matching Amount: $142,088
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Janet Frasier
Marketing Director
801-541-3122; jfrasier@umnh.utah.edu

Project Title: "The Trailhead to Utah"
The Utah Museum of Natural History will develop an integrated Web interface system called Trailhead to Utah. Using emerging Web technologies, the Museum will provide new and easy access to all of its key programs, including exhibitions, public programming, school curricula, research, and digitized collections. Through a statewide partnership program, users will be able to connect the museum’s resources with those of other museums, libraries, and partners, such as national and state parks in the region. This system will enable visitors to personalize their museum experience, explore additional resources, access the museum from anywhere in the world, and participate in an online community supporting the museum.

Vermont

ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center - Burlington, VT
Award Amount: $149,169; Matching Amount: $165,939
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Tracy Truzansky
Director of Education
802-864-1848 ext. 120; ttruzansky@echovermont.org

Project Title: "Inquiry Science in Schools"
ECHO Lake Aquarium and Science Center’s Inquiry Science in Schools project builds on a two-year environmental science pilot program to significantly expand inquiry-based science lessons in regional third- and fifth-grade classrooms. Programs will be created in partnership with local elementary schools and delivered through a partnership with a college pre-service teacher program.

Shelburne Museum - Shelburne, VT
Award Amount: $148,832; Matching Amount: $187,751
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Karen Petersen
Director of Education and Public Programs
802-985-3346; kpetersen@shelburnemuseum.org

Project Title: "Design, Implementation, and Evaluation of a New Program for K-8 Education at Shelburne Museum"
The Shelburne Museum will design, implement, and evaluate a new program of 12 hands-on, collections-based learning workshops for K–8 school groups visiting the Museum. The goals are to give students deeper and more direct experiences with the collections and to integrate school group visits to the Museum with Vermont state curriculum standards. The project will establish a multifaceted framework for ongoing collaboration between museum staff and teachers to create and evaluate education programs at the Museum. Three primary evaluation tools will be used: focus groups, online surveys, and an independent consultant hired to perform a comprehensive program assessment.

Virginia

National Civil War Life Museum - Fredericksburg, VA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $342,230
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Terry Thomann
Executive Director
540-834-1859; civilwarlife@yahoo.com

Project Title: "National Civil War Life Museum and Research Center"
The National Civil War Life Museum will use its award to support the design, fabrication and installation of two exhibits, Life in Camp and Technology and Armament and War. Life in Camp will focus on recreating camp life with objects used daily by soldiers. Technology, Armament and War will include artifacts and newspapers of the time period highlighting the influence of the industrial revolution, involvement and diversity of civilian factory workers, and innovation and ingenuity of the Civil War era. Both exhibits will become permanent installations in the museum’s Civil War Life Gallery. The project coincides with the 2011 Civil War Sesquicentennial commemoration.

Washington

Port Townsend Marine Science Center - Port Townsend, WA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $152,234
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Anne Murphy
Executive Director
360-385-5582 ext. 102; amurphy@ptmsc.org

Project Title: "ORCA Project"
The Port Townsend Marine Science Center’s Orca Project will engage people on both a scientific and personal level as they learn the story of a stranded female orca. The whale, bearing toxic load that compromised her immune system, was accompanied by a male offspring, who stayed by her side during the entire ordeal. Photographs, videos, and recordings document this event. This orca’s skeleton, restored, articulated, and displayed, will be complemented by educational activities and community events that combine this story with related scientific information. The project will address the direct connections that exist among Puget Sound communities and the global ocean environment.

Seattle Art Museum - Seattle, WA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $732,922
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Sandra Jackson-Dumont
Deputy Director of Education & Public Programs
206-332-1336; sandraj@seattleartmuseum.org

Project Title: "Art Goes to School"
The Seattle Art Museum’s project, “Art Goes to School,” will help the Museum fulfill its mission of connecting art to life for K–12 students and their teachers. The project will create a menu of programs and resources that employ the arts to teach core curriculum, so that students are continually learning in and through the arts. Goals for the project include growing the museum’s capacity to serve more students with art experiences, updating and developing new classroom and online resources, and expanding the number of teachers served and interdisciplinary curriculum applications developed in the museum’s professional development workshops.

Wing Luke Memorial Foundation - Seattle, WA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $204,030
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Cassandra Chinn
Program Director
206-623-5124 ext. 131; cchinn@wingluke.org

Project Title: "Art Beyond Downtown"
The Wing Luke Asian Museum will use its IMLS award to support Art Beyond Downtown, an initiative to engage new visitors, create opportunities for them to learn about art, culture, and history related to Asian Pacific Americans, and to encourage them to return to the museum and its neighborhood. The initiative has three components: (1) the Tateuchi Story Theatre Performing Arts Series, a 15-performance series that will showcase the performing arts traditions of ethnic groups rooted in the museum’s neighborhood; (2) Music After Hours in the Chinatown-International District, an 18-performance series that will expose visitors to the musical arts and traditions of Asian Pacific Americans while simultaneously promoting the neighborhood’s local businesses; and (3) Chinatown-International District Neighborhood Tours, which will help visitors experience the culture, stories, and legacies of the historic neighborhood.

Pacific Science Center - Seattle, WA
Award Amount: $147,474; Matching Amount: $161,771
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Dr. Meena Selvakumar
Portal to the Public Director
206-269-2139; meena_selvakumar@pacsci.org

Project Title: "Science Conversation for Ongoing Public Engagement: Forums and Science Cafes"
The Pacific Science Center will use IMLS its IMLS award to develop a multifaceted model for fostering dialogue among adults in comfortable settings about science, technology, and social issues. Science Conversations for Ongoing Public Engagement will include Science Forums for adults at community centers, Science Forums in partnership with the Seattle Art Museum and CityClub, and Science Cafes, which bring scientists face-to-face with the public in lively, informal settings.

Burke Museum Association - Seattle, WA
Award Amount: $149,998; Matching Amount: $149,998
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. MaryAnn Barron-Wagner
Communications Director
; chilton1@u.washington.edu

Project Title: "Integrating Museums into Student Life: A Model Outreach Program for University Museums"
The Burke Museum Association will implement an outreach program designed to integrate museum experiences into multiple aspects of college students’ campus life. Goals of the project are to (1) develop and test new ways of integrating formal and informal education on a college campus, (2) foster generations of college graduates who value museums as resources for lifelong learning, (3) provide leadership development opportunities for emerging museum professionals, and (4) increase recognition of the museum as a valuable asset of the university. Project findings will be shared with other university museums around the country through presentations at regional museum conferences and submission of articles to professional journals.

Tacoma Art Museum - Tacoma, WA
Award Amount: $94,652; Matching Amount: $125,535
Grant Category: Collections Stewardship

Contact: Ms. Michelle Kinney
Registrar
253-272-4258; mkinney@tacomaartmuseum.org

Project Title: "Stewarding Tacoma Art Museum's Collection: Database Management System Upgrade & Online Access to Collection Information and Images"
The Tacoma Art Museum will use its IMLS award to replace its Argus 2c collection management system with EmbARK and to standardize, update, and increase information related to all 3,500 works of art in its growing collection. Project outcomes will include strengthening the Museum’s collection and exhibition management, and easier use and sharing of information about the collection for staff, visitors, and the public via the Internet.

Point Defiance Zoological Society - Tacoma, WA
Award Amount: $149,500; Matching Amount: $164,051
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Mr. Stanley Chapin
Operations Manager
253-404-3802; stanc@tacomaparks.com

Project Title: "A Vision for the Future: Red Wolf Woods and Cats of the Canopy"
Point Defiance Zoo and Aquarium will develop two new exhibitions: Red Wolf Woods and Cats of the Canopy. Red Wolf Woods will tell the story of the Zoo’s successful 35-year project to increase the nearly extinct red wolf population. Cats of the Canopy will complete the Zoo’s Asian Forest Sanctuary area with an exhibit to house the clouded leopards currently residing behind the scenes. The Zoo will develop interactive graphics and other interpretive materials to tell the story of the red wolf and the clouded leopard and will showcase the Zoo’s leadership role in national and international breeding and conservation efforts.

Fort Walla Walla Valley Museum - Walla Walla, WA
Award Amount: $52,165; Matching Amount: $53,501
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Laura Schulz
Collections Manager
509-525-7703; laura@fortwallawallamuseum.org

Project Title: "Through War and Peace: American Military and the People of the Homeland Tribes"
Fort Walla Walla Museum will use its IMLS award to support research, design, and production of Through War and Peace: American Military and the People of the Homeland Tribes. Through this exhibit and accompanying guide, interactions among Indian people, the military, and Walla Walla regional communities will be stressed. The project will be conducted in partnership with Tamastslikt Cultural Institute.

Wisconsin

Chippewa Valley Museum - Eau Claire, WI
Award Amount: $93,782; Matching Amount: $94,293
Grant Category: Building Institutional Capacity

Contact: Ms. Carrie Ronnander
Curator
715-834-7871; c.ronnander@cvmuseum.com

Project Title: "Increasing Capacity for Strategic Planning and Collaboration"
The Chippewa Valley Museum will work with community partners to develop a community plan for the greater Eau Claire area. A consultant will train staff in strategic and collaborative planning; which will include a community forum, conversations and interviews that will provide a variety of data the planning group. The resulting community cultural plan will provide a tool for decision making and direction setting for the museum, local government, funders and cultural organizations,

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art - Madison, WI
Award Amount: $55,030; Matching Amount: $76,980
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Stephan Fleischman

608-257-0158; flash@mmoca.org

Project Title: "2010 Wisconsin Triennial"
The Madison Museum of Contemporary Art will use its IMLS award to organize and present the 2010 Wisconsin Triennial, a juried statewide survey of contemporary artwork in Wisconsin. The project will focus on reaching a larger statewide audience and creating a richer experience for both onsite and offsite visitors. To achieve these goals, the Museum will create a comprehensive Web site; present lectures across the state; develop cell-phone-guided audio tours; provide opportunities for audiences to interact with Triennial content using Web 2.0–based platforms; establish an online application process with a greater capacity to reach potential artists beyond Madison, and create a strong, integrated communications strategy employing traditional and digital media.

Madison Children's Museum - Madison, WI
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $323,456
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Brenda Baker
Director of Exhibits
608-268-1231 ext. 25; bbaker@madisonchildrensmuseum.org

Project Title: "Rooftop Ramble"
The Madison Children’s Museum will use its IMLS award to fabricate and install Rooftop Ramble, a permanent, year-round exhibition on the rooftop of the Museum’s newly renovated five-story building in the heart of downtown Madison. This project responds to a community need for the Museum and its community to provide expanded natural and physical science programming for children up to age 12. Secondary goals are to create a natural model for the design and use of year-round outdoor urban spaces, to advance the museum’s sustainability practices with a green rooftop with an alternative energy demonstration site, and to contribute to community development and urban revitalization.

Betty Brinn Children's Museum - Milwaukee, WI
Award Amount: $50,000; Matching Amount: $105,321
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Fern Shupeck
Executive Director
414-291-0888 ext. 214; fshup@bbcmkids.org

Project Title: "Under Construction - Go Green!"
The Betty Brinn Children’s Museum will create Under Construction—Go Green! an exhibit with related programming for children ages 4–10 that will expand the museum’s ability to promote the importance of science, technology, engineering, and math education.

Wyoming

Tate Geological Museum - Casper, WY
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount: $188,272
Grant Category: Engaging Communities

Contact: Ms. Melissa Connely
Director
307-268-2017; mconnely@caspercollege.edu

Project Title: "Stones and Bones: The Ice Age"
Stones and Bones: The Ice Age will serve as a keystone for four major exhibits to be developed at the Tate Geological Museum. These exhibits will enable the museum to enhance the educational experiences and outreach and better serve the community as research center, and tourist destination. As part of this first exhibit, a Columbian mammoth found near Casper, Wyoming, will be reconstructed and surrounded by eight learning stations. A curriculum and teaching materials for K–12 and postsecondary students will also be developed.