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Cultural Heritage/Sustainability

Libraries and museums are keystones sustaining communities' sense of place and cultural identity.

Search the Awarded Grants database for grants to programs that strengthen cultural heritage/sustainability (issue areas have only been assigned to grants awarded since FY 2009)

Cultural heritage/sustainability content on the IMLS Web site:
Mark McCormick
Blog Post: AAHC Forum: Former Journalist Reviving Lost History, Culture at The Kansas African American Museum

April 25, 2013 02:27 PM
Journalist turned museum director connects Kansans to their state’s historical DNA. Read More

 
Amistad Research Center
Blog Post: AAHC Forum: Amistad and Haitian Agencies Discuss Exhibition

March 28, 2013 11:51 AM
Haiti’s Presidential Advisory Commission for Economic Growth and Investment are in talks with the Amistad Research Center with hopes to make Amistad’s artwork available for Haitian academic researchers and public exhibition in Haiti. Read More

 
Blog Post: Museums as Dinner Table: Dialogues on Immigration

March 19, 2013 01:30 PM
This spring, participants of the Immigration and Civil Rights Network will discuss immigration issues and work together to bring those dialogues to their museums. Read More

 
AAMP Supremes Exhibit
Blog Post: AAHC Forum: African American Museum in Philadelphia Fellows Prepare Motown Exhibit

February 21, 2013 12:37 PM
Graduate fellows at the African American Museum in Philadelphia crafted a compelling historical account of 20th-century African American culture by using archival materials from Motown legend, The Supremes. Read More

 
Keila Dumas places the finishing touch on a display for Tuskegee Airman, Roy Spencer. Photo courtesy of the Meek-Eaton Black Archives.
Blog Post: AAHC Forum: Gaining Knowledge through Research and Role Models

January 31, 2013 09:53 AM
Undergraduate student, Keila Dumas, felt a sense of connection--to artifacts, faculty, visitors, and other fellows--during her experience as an I AMM fellow at the Carrie Meek-James Eaton Black Archives Research Center and Museum. Read More