| July 2007 Museums for America
Grant Announcement
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Alabama
Birmingham Civil Rights Institute - Birmingham,
AL
Award Amount: $148,224; Matching Amount:$151,403
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Priscilla Cooper
Vice President of Institutional Programs
(205) 328-9696 ext. 233; pcooper@bcri.org
Project Title: "Youth Leadership Initiatives"
The Birmingham Civil Rights Institute will use its grant
to support two youth development initiatives that will
encourage lifelong learning by involving young people
and their families in positive learning experiences with
cultural resources. The grant will support (1) continuation
of the nationally recognized Birmingham Cultural Alliance
Partnership after-school program at Banks Middle School
and (2) expansion of the Multicultural Youth Career Advancement
Program summer leadership initiative into the year-round
Legacy Leadership Program.

Alaska
Alaska SeaLife Center - Seward, AK
Award Amount: $149,900; Matching Amount:$150,081
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Ms. Dana Sitzler
Education Director
(907) 224-6890; dana_sitzler@alaskasealife.org
Project Title: "The Sea Train: Connecting
Families to Alaska's Unique Educational Resources"
Award funding will support the Sea Train, a partnership
between the Alaska SeaLife Center, a marine research facility
an public aquarium in Seward, AK, the Anchorage School
District, which serves roughly half the state’s population,
and the Alaska Railroad Corporation, which connects Anchorage
and Seward with 125 miles of historic and senic railroad
tracks. The Sea Train will transport over 4,400 fifth
grade students, parents, and teachers to the Alaska SeaLife
Center for educational visits. During the trip, Alaska
Railroad cars will serve as unique learning classrooms
during a day of science-based field learning. This program
has been successfully tested and will expand to build
and measure sustainability.

Arizona
Lake Havasu City Historical Society &
Museum of History - Lake Havasu City, AZ
Award Amount: $14,228; Matching Amount:$16,054
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ruth Brydon
Curator
(928) 854-4938; lhmuseum@redrivernet.com
Project Title: "Environmental Awareness
Through Understanding Natural History"
The Lake Havasu City Historical Society/Museum will use
its grant to design, fabricate and install an exhibit
of the natural history of the area as part of an effort
to promote lifelong learning for the members of the community
and its visitors.
Heard Museum - Phoenix, AZ
Award Amount: $149,018; Matching Amount:$348,698
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Mr. Frank Goodyear
Director
(602) 252-8840; fgoodyear@heard.org
Project Title: "Heard Museum Interactive
Web Site"
The Heard Museum will use its grant to develop an interactive
Web site to offer the general public unprecedented access
to the treasures of American Indian arts and cultures.
The Web site will feature state-of-the-art technology
to allow the visitor a virtual experience of the many
galleries, events, and educational programs for which
the Heard Museum is internationally famous. The components
of the interactive Web site will include (1) a virtual
education center; (2) a virtual library and archives;
(3), virtual exhibitions and tours; and (4) the Indigenous
Center for Creative Research, which will support and promote
the works of progressive and experimental indigenous art.
Tucson Children's Museum - Tucson, AZ
Award Amount: $73,675; Matching Amount:$80,615
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Mr. Tad Beckwith
Director of Exhibits and Programs
(520) 792-9985; tbeckwith@tucsonchildrensmuseum.org
Project Title: "Wellness Education Programming"
The Tucson Children's Museum will use its grant to develop
interactive, engaging, and culturally appropriate wellness
programming based on its new "Wellness World" exhibit
and designed to reach targeted audiences of children and
families at high risk of health programs related to obesity
through community outreach and collaboration.
Arizona State Museum at the University
of Arizona - Tucson, AZ
Award Amount: $87,869; Matching Amount:$87,870
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Ms. Lisa Falk
Director of Education
(520) 626-2973; falk@email.arizona.edu
Project Title: "Culture Craft Saturday -
Serving At-Risk Populations"
Arizona State Museum will work with Tucson Pima Public
Library to develop eight Culture Craft Saturday and one
Summer Solstice Celebration interactive cultural arts
family programs. These programs feature Native American
and Mexican tradition bearers and cultural educators as
well as museum curators. Additional specialized programs
will be offered for three "social service" units and one
charter school serving largely low-income Hispanic and
Native American troubled youth, some seniors, and their
families, who will also attend the programs. Audience
research will be conducted about the affect of these programs
on assumptions and attitudes about museums and libraries.
Grant funds will be used to hire a program coordinator
and cover programming costs.
Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum - Tucson,
AZ
Award Amount: $149,999; Matching Amount:$321,397
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Dr. Mark Dimmitt
Director of Natural History
(520) 883-3008; mdimmitt@desertmuseum.org
Project Title: "Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum
Digital Library"
The Arizona-Sonora Desert Museum (ASDM) will add the newly
acquired Kerstitch Collection of Sea of Cortez marine
life images to its digital collection and expand the terrestrial
collection produced in an earlier phase of this project.
Working in parthership with the University of Arizona
Library, the museum will add species narratives and descriptions
of species attributes, and will enhance the user interface
and search functionalities for audiences at various levels.
This grant will help the museum implement a metadata harvesting
protocol and high-resolution image downloading mechanisms.

Arkansas
Rogers Historical Museum - Rogers, AR
Award Amount: $18,178; Matching Amount:$26,298
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Dr. Gaye Bland
Museum Director
(479) 621-1154; gbland@rogersark.org
Project Title: "The Life Atomic"
The Rogers Historical Museum will create an exhibition
and related programs on growing up during the early years
of the atomic age. The exhibition will be designed so
that the panels and “fallout shelter” props can be used
as a traveling loan exhibit after its debut at the Rogers
Historical Museum.

California
Chico Creek Nature Center - Chico, CA
Award Amount: $98,814; Matching Amount:$98,814
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Mr. Tom Haithcock
Executive Director
(530) 891-4671; naturecenter@chico.com
Project Title: "Bidwell Park Interpretive
Exhibit"
Chico Creek Nature Center will create a permanent exhibit
integrating the natural and cultural history of the park
where the nature center is located.
Children's Museum at La Habra - La Habra,
CA
Award Amount: $148,021; Matching Amount:$148,021
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Ms. Charlotte Fausett
Arts Education Coordinator
(562) 905-9793; charolttef@lahabracity.com
Project Title: "Young at Art"
Young at Art is a standards-based arts education program
for kindergarten through second grade students and teachers
that features visual arts, music, and drama activities
in classrooms and at the museum. The Children's Museum
and the La Habra City School District will partner to
provide instruction integrated into the school and professional
arts development workshops for the teachers. Through opportunities
for doing, viewing, and thinking and talking about music,
theater/performing arts, and visual arts, Young at Art
reaches students who currently receive no formal arts
instruction at all four elementary schools in the City
of La Habra. The project anticipates reaching 2,983 students,
101 teachers, 5,000 parents, and 10,000 community members
over two years.
Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust -
Los Angeles, CA
Award Amount: $86,983; Matching Amount:$104,423
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Rachel Lithgow
Executive Director
(323) 651-3704; rachel@lamoth.org
Project Title: "Archive Project"
The Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust will hire an archivist
to thoroughly assess its achive and complete the first
inventory of thousands of artifacts and documents overing
the period of 1933-1945. The archives will be searchable
by all record groups, titles, collection titles, personal
and georgraphic names and publications.
Monterey Bay Aquarium - Monterey, CA
Award Amount: $149,947; Matching Amount:$199,477
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Rita Bell
Education Programs Manager
(831) 648-4845; rbell@mbayaq.org
Project Title: "Watsonville Area Teens Conserving
Habitats (WATCH)"
The Monterey Bay Aquarium, in partnership with Pajaro
Valley High School (PVHS) and Pajaro Valley Unified District,
conducts the Watsonville Area Teen Conserving Habitats
(WATCH) program. Working closely with more than 40 PVHS
teachers and administrators, aquarium staff offer a community-based
service-learning program that includes experimental out-of-school
activities for Watsonville/Pajaro Valley high school students
to complement their school curriculum, build leadership
and job skills, and provide opportunities for conservation
action. The project will expand on this pilot program
to involve the entire high school, strengthening the impact
of the program.
Computer History Museum - Mountain View,
CA
Award Amount: $144,359; Matching Amount:$161,646
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Allison Akbay
Registrar
(650) 810-1022; akbay@computerhistory.org
Project Title: "Collections Cataloging and
Reconciliation Project"
The goal of the Computer History Museum Collection Cataloging
and Reconciliation Project is to inventory, catalog, and
photograph 20,000 pieces of computer hardware and ephemera.
The catalog information will be used to develop new object-based
exhibitions and plan collections growth.
Peralta Hacienda Historical Park - Oakland,
CA
Award Amount: $149,249; Matching Amount:$149,380
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Holly Alonso
Executive Director
(510) 532-9142; hollyalonso@earthlink.net
Project Title: "Landscape of Stories Coordinated
Program Plan Implementation"
The six-acre Peralta Hacienda Historical Park is on the
site of the former headquarters of the 45,000-acre Peralta
rancho in Fruitvale, on the east side of the San Francisco
Bay. Its history spans the mission, rancho, and Gold Rush
periods, making it an ideal learning environment. The
Coordinated Program Plan includes the Fourth Grade School
Field Trips Program for classes studying the state-mandated
California history curriculum; the Community Docent Program,
in which elders—many from Asia, Latin America, or the
American South—tell their stories as tour guides; and
the Community Leaders Stewardship Program, in which youth
who live near the park learn about history and other cultures
as they grow, cook, and share produce.
Oakland Museum of California - Oakland,
CA
Award Amount: $149,343; Matching Amount:$721,265
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Barbara Henry
Chief Curator of Education
(510) 238-3820; bhenry@museumca.org
Project Title: "Family Art Explorations"
The Oakland Museum will greatly expand interpretive resources
for families and community audiences in the Gallery of
California Art, including development of an Art Discovery
Center, interactive exhibits, print materials, and family
programs to (1) foster skills for diverse audiences to
interpret art in a variety of ways, (2) increase observation
skills for experiencing art from multiple perspectives,
(3) enhance awareness of how art is made and the creative
impulse in California, and (4) develop an understanding
of how art reflects the human experience in our state's
diverse social history and natural environment. The project
is part of a $9.2 million expansion, renovation, reinstallation,
and reinterpretation that will provide new experiences
for broad public audiences.
Museum of History and Art, Ontario -
Ontario, CA
Award Amount: $90,730; Matching Amount:$90,904
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Theresa Hanley
Museum Director
(909) 983-3198; thanley@ci.ontario.ca.us
Project Title: "Improving Management and
Intellectual Control of the collectsions at the Museum
of History and Art, Ontario"
The Museum of History and Art, Ontario, has begun to implement
improvements to the care and management of its collections
of artifacts, archives, and art related to the history
of Ontario and the surrounding communities in inland Southern
California. This project will complete the registration
of the museum’s collection of 25,000 objects, improving
intellectual control and enabling the museum to make better
use of the collection for exhibitions and other public
programs, as well as to identify future care, management,
and conservation projects.
Armory Center for the Arts - Pasadena,
CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$527,974
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Mr. Scott Ward
Executive Director
(626) 792-5101 ext. 114; sward@armoryarts.org
Project Title: "Art High"
The Art High Initiative will use its grant to expand the
armory's programs for teens (ages 13 to 18) in Pasadena
and the San Gabriel Valley, creating an Arts Hub for young
people in the community; increasing the number of classes
for teens; providing mentoring and independent study opportunities;
mounting public exhibitions of student work throughout
the year; creating a student Open Studio area for free-form
discussions, collaboration, and brainstorming; assisting
teens in creating a quality portfolio of their work for
entrance into college and professional art programs; and
offering paid apprenticeships for teens at the Armory
Center for the Arts.
City of Roseville - Roseville, CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$225,969
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Paula Finley
Development Manager
(916) 774-5248; pfinley@roseville.ca.us
Project Title: "Sustaining Maidu Cultural
Heritage"
In response to changing demographics and community requests
for augmentation of cultural learning opportunities in
Placer County, the City of Roseville will use its grant
to provide museum exhibits at its Maidu Interpretive Center
that will stimulate lifelong learning in visitors of all
ages. The exhibits will teach new skills, offer new perspectives,
and encourage involvement in family and traditional cultural
heritage of the area.
Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco -
San Francisco, CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$990,425
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Ms. Renee Baldocchi
Manager of Public Programs
(415) 750-7634; rbaldocchi@famsf.org
Project Title: "Cultural Encounters"
This grant will support Cultural Encounters, a year-round
series of public programs designed to reinforce the museums'
role as a community cultural resource. Through an electric
mix of daytime and evening programs, Cultural Encounters
aims to attract new and diverse audiences to the museums.
National Japanese American Historical
Society - San Francisco, CA
Award Amount: $24,999; Matching Amount:$25,001
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Ms. Rosalyn Tonai
Executive Director
(415) 921-5007 ext. 000; rosalyn@njahs.org
Project Title: "Pacific War and Peace"
The National Japanese America Historical Society will
use award funding to support the planning of a special
exhibition and a series of public programs telling the
story of Japanese Americans in the Military Intelligence
Service in World War II and the Allied occupation of Japan.
San Francisco Museum of Modern Art -
San Fransisco, CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$161,693
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Dana Mitroff
Senior Web Manager
(415) 357-2871; dmitroff@SFMOMA.org
Project Title: ""Explore Modern Art""
The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art (SFMOMA) will develop,
disseminate, and evaluate Explore Modern Art, an online
learning environment that seamlessly integrates and expands
the institution’s multimedia interpretive, content, online
collections database and calendar of public programs.
The goal is to create an interactive educational space
designed to encourage chance discovery, which in turn
will stimulate greater engagement with modern and contemporary
art and with SFMOMA. Explore Modern Art will be the centerpiece
of a completely new sfmoma.org Web site, and will be fully
integrated within a four-phase Web redesign project mandated
by the museum’s strategic plan to take place in advance
of SFMOMA’s 75th anniversary in 2010.
City of Santa Ana Parks, Recreation &
Community Center - Santa Ana, CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$162,806
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Suzanne Furjanic
Associate Park Planner
(714) 571-4241; sfurjanic@ci.santa-ana.ca.us
Project Title: "Santa Ana Zoo Master Graphics
Program"
The City of Santa Ana Parks, Recreation and Community
Services Agency will use its grant toward the creation
and implementation of a master graphics program at the
Santa Ana Zoo. Grant funding will be used to contract
a design group to evaluate and submit a complete report
of illustrated recommendations and blueprints for bilingual,
educational interpretive signage throughout the zoo, and
to complete fabrication and installation of all signage.
Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological
Restoration, University of California -
Award Amount: $30,633; Matching Amount:$30,633
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Jennifer Thorsch
Director, Cheadle Center for Biodiversity
(805) 893-2401; thorsch@lifesci.ucsb.edu
Project Title: "Cheadle Center Botanical
Archives"
The Cheadle Center for Biodiversity and Ecological Restoration
(CCBER) at the University of California, Santa Barbara
is engaged in graduate and undergraduate education, biodiversity
research, habitat restoration, and public outreach. CCBER
owns and curates regionally focused biological collections,
as well as a library of more than 2,300 volumes. It owns
nine botanical archival collections covering such areas
as plant anatomy, oak systematics, and plant ecology,
as well as two other biological collections. Most of these
collections have yet to be accessioned, housed, or described.
In this project, CCBER will hire a part-time archivist
to process the nine collections and create finding aids
and cataloging records to make the papers, photographs,
artifacts, and memorabilia in these collections more accessible.
University Art Museum of the University
of California, Santa Barbara - Santa Barbara, CA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$163,864
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Kathryn Kanjo-Jurist
Director, University Art Museum
(805) 893-4564; kkanjo@uam.ucsb.edu
Project Title: "Cataloguing and Digitization
of University Art Museum Architectural Collections"
The University Art Museum of the University of California,
Santa Barbara, will use its grant to catalog and digitize
the architectural collections and the Irving J. Gill and
Kem Weber collections.
California Indian Museum and Cultural
Center - Santa Rosa, CA
Award Amount: $124,799; Matching Amount:$125,826
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Ms. Nicole Lim
Executive Director
(707) 579-3004; nikkimyers@aol.com
Project Title: "Ishi: A California Indian
Story of Courage, Dignity, Hope and Survival"
The grant will support a project to galvanize California
Indian participation in the California Indian Museum and
Cultural Center by enabling the community to create an
exhibit with educational resources and interactive activities
on the legendary California Indian, Ishi, for a fourth
grade audience. The exhibit will provide a lens of continuity
for the public to understand the issues that surrounded
Ishi's life and their effects on today’s cultures. Exhibit
themes and messages will trace the trajectory of these
issues, while aligning with the content standards of the
California public school curriculum. The Native perspective
will be highlighted through a series of interconnecting
oral narratives comprising video and audio vignettes.
KidZone Museum - Truckee, CA
Award Amount: $143,085; Matching Amount:$145,506
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Mrs. Carol Meagher
Director
(530) 587-5437; director@kidzonemuseum.org
Project Title: "Building a Multicultural
Audience"
KidZone Museum for Children will be supported by grant
funds to implement Building a Multicultural Audience.
The program’s goal is to reach more families in the rural
areas surrounding their community, Latino families, and
low-income families and welcome them as new visitors and
members of the museum.

Connecticut
Real Art Ways - Hartford, CT
Award Amount: $139,871; Matching Amount:$140,323
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Mr. Will Wilkins
Executive Director
(860) 232-1006 ext. 100; wwilkins@realartways.org
Project Title: "Engaging Community"
Real Art Ways will use this grant to build its senior
citizen audience through daytime programming, and to build
audiences and connections in its neighborhoods through
public art projects.
Litchfield Historical Society - Litchfield,
CT
Award Amount: $74,700; Matching Amount:$80,152
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Catherine Fields
Director
(860) 567-4 ext. 501; cfields@litchfieldhistoricalsociety.org
Project Title: "Collections Documentation
& Move"
The Litchfield Historical Society will prepare and move
museum and library collections into a new collections
storage facility. The new building will double available
storage and work areas, provide safe and secure storage
for museum and library collections, and alleviate overcrowded
conditions in the society’s headquarters building. The
move will provide a unique opportunity to assess the collection
and its documentation and, at the same time, identify
collections for upcoming exhibitions and programs. The
grant will support collections documentation, photography,
condition assessments, and rehousing of artifacts. The
funds will also allow the society to hire a temporary
collections assistant to work on the project with the
curator of collections and the curator of library and
archives.
Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research
Center - Manshantucket, CT
Award Amount: $148,210; Matching Amount:$167,011
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Kimberly Hatcher-White
Executive Director
(860) 396-7073; khatcherwhite@mptn-nsn.gov
Project Title: "The Reservation Period in
Pequot History"
The Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center will
assess issues pertaining to its Reservation Period exhibit
gallery and develop a comprehensive plan to transform
it into a space that truly reflects the Tribal Nation’s
unique heritage and experiences. This grant will underwrite
the costs of bringing together experts from a cross-section
of disciplines to develop a comprehensive, manageable
work plan to restructure all aspects of the Reservation
Period exhibit area. Outside consultants and museum staff
will work closely with members of the Mashantucket Pequot
tribal community, particularly the elders, to learn their
stories, understand their priorities, and listen to their
concerns about the exhibit.
New Britain Museum of American Art -
New Britain, CT
Award Amount: $115,756; Matching Amount:$133,391
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Mr. James Kopp
Collections Manager
(860) 229-0257 ext. 16; koppj@nbmaa.org
Project Title: "Implementation of New Collections
Management System and New Web Site"
The New Britain Museum of American Art will use its grant
to expand the availability of educational art resources
for educators, researchers, students, and the general
public with the installation of a new searchable database
of collection images, explanatory texts, and educational
content available on its newly redesigned Web site.
Peabody Museum of Natural History at
Yale University - New Haven, CT
Award Amount: $144,030; Matching Amount:$144,251
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Jane Pickering
Assistant Director for Public Programs
(203) 432-3798; jane.pickering@yale.edu
Project Title: "Evolutions: Yale Peabody
Museum's After-School Program"
The Peabody Museum of Natural History at Yale University
will expand on Evolutions (EVOking Learning and Understanding
Through Investigations Of the Natural Sciences). An audience
research project, Engaging our Communities, identified
youth out-of-school programs as being extremely important
to a key museum audience—the New Haven community. Evolutions
was developed in 2005 as one response to this need and
will engage students in grades 8 through 12 from groups
that are traditionally underrepresented in the sciences
in comprehensive museum-based curricula that combine hands-on
projects, field trips, college preparation, career awareness,
and transferable skills development. Summer internships
in Yale laboratories will also be available. Participants
will produce a traveling museum exhibit and podcasts.
Stamford Museum and Nature Center - Stamford,
CT
Award Amount: $146,570; Matching Amount:$173,845
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Mr. William Kies
Interim Contact Person
(203) 322-1646 ext. 268; wkies@stamfordmuseum.org
Project Title: "Visitor & Family Orientation
Program"
The Stamford Museum and Nature Center will fund an initiative
with three components: (1) development of the Overbrook
Nature Center as an orientation center; (2) creation of
interpretive signage throughout Heckscher Farm for educational
and engaging family tours; and (3) developing wayfinding
signage to improve the visitor experience and the ease
of use of the 118-acre property.

District of Columbia
National Museum of Women in the Arts
- Washington, DC
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$254,933
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Sharon Wasserman
Director of the Library and Research Center
(202) 266-2806; swasserman@nmwa.org
Project Title: "Clara: Database of Women
Artists: Phase II"
The National Museum of Women in the Arts will continue
its support of Clara: Database of Women Artists. Created,
housed, and maintained in the museum’s Library and Research
Center, this unique database contains authoritative biographic
information on 18,000 women artists of all periods and
nationalities. In Phase II, the museum will develop Clara
Interactive, an educational Web site targeted at educators
and students in grades 4–12, to introduce them to the
work of women artists. Clara Interactive will feature
a selection of digitized archival materials from the museum’s
collections of artists’ papers and from its Archives on
Women Artists, a collection of research files on the 18,000
artists in the database.
Phillips Collection - Washington, DC
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$243,111
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Darci Vanderhoff
(202) 387-2151 ext. 237; dvanderhoff@phillipscollection.org
Project Title: "The Phillips Collection
Library Automation Project"
The Phillips Collection will convert its paper-based library
catalog to an integrated library automation system to
provide greater public access to its unique holdings of
printed resources documenting the museum’s permanent collection,
the evolution of The Phillips Collection as the first
museum of modern art in America, and the history of art
collecting in America in the first half of the 20th century.
This project is part of a larger initiative to make all
the museum’s primary resources, the permanent collection,
and the library’s holdings accessible and searchable to
the public via The Phillips Collection Web site.

Florida
Florida Museum of Natural History at
the University of Florida - Gainesville, FL
Award Amount: $133,054; Matching Amount:$134,105
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Jamie Creola
Education Director
(352) 846-2000 ext. 263; jcreola@flmnh.ufl.edu
Project Title: "Florida Museum of Natural
History - Teacher Enrichment Program"
The Florida Museum of Natural History at the University
of Florida will be used for a teacher enrichment program
that provides teachers with the scientific knowledge and
techniques, classroom materials, and online resources
to supplement and enhance student learning in the classroom,
as well as in gallery experiences that tie museum exhibits
to the curriculum and enhance school field trips.
Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society
- Key West, FL
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$856,068
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Dr. Madeleine Burnside
Executive Director
(305) 294-2633 ext. 11; mburnside@melfisher.org
Project Title: "Sunken Empire: Galleons
of Spain's Golden Age"
The Mel Fisher Maritime Heritage Society will design and
implement a new exhibition, “Sunken Empire: Galleons of
Spain’s Golden Age.” “Sunken Empire” sustains the heritage
of a largely forgotten period in the history of the United
States, the period between 1492 and 1776. The exhibition
examines the Spanish colonial empire that rose and fell
in the same period to reveal the direct effects on American
culture, including populations, languages, and laws. The
exhibition will tour nine major cities in the United States,
opening in 2008 at the Historical Association of Southern
Florida in Miami. The exhibition is artifact-based and
features unique objects from the 1622 Tierre Firme Fleet,
which sank in the waters surrounding Key West in September
1622.
Brevard Zoo - Melbourne, FL
Award Amount: $147,910; Matching Amount:$616,345
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Mr. Christopher DeLorey
Director of Education
(321) 254-9453 ext. 214; cdelorey@brevardzoo.org
Project Title: "Indian River Lagoon Adventure"
The Brevard Zoo will renovate its children’s zoo exhibit,
“Paws-On: the Animal Exploration Zone” to be more accessible
to families and address the developmental needs of children
ages two to ten. The exhibit will provide an engaging,
comfortable, safe space for families to interact and be
active throughout the year, learn about Florida habitats
and the natural world through hands-on play; provide opportunities
for inquiry-based learning at the zoo and on the web site
and facilitate family experiences in natural settings
beyond the zoo.
Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science
- Tallahassee, FL
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$159,875
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Cynthia Hollis
(850) 513-0700 ext. 241; chollis@thebrogan.org
Project Title: "OPEN COLLECTIONS: A Lifelong
Learning Project"
Through formal evaluations of resident needs, the State
of Florida Department of Cultural Affairs has defined
eight of the nine counties served by the Mary Brogan Museum
as among "the most culturally underserved" in the state.
The purpose of OPEN COLLECTIONS: A Lifelong Learning Project
is to make the museum accessible to these underserved
communities by providing online access to our collections
and corresponding educational materials, thereby allowing
educators, students, academic researchers, scholars, senior
citizens, and communities in rural counties to interact
with the museum's collections on an unprecedented level.
This project will also serve as a replicable model for
digitizing current and future museum collections.
Norton Museum of Art - West Palm Beach,
FL
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$317,814
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Mr. Larry Rosensweig
Director
(561) 832-5196 ext. 1138; rosensweigl@norton.org
Project Title: "Welcoming Initiative"
The Norton Museum of Art's Welcoming Initiative will expand
its programs to serve a larger portion of their community.
The initiative will be accomplished through technology
and programming. Project activities include (1) upgrading
the theater equipment to provide more opportunities for
programming and community partnerships; (2) enhancing
the Norton's Web site to provide more information and
greater interactive capabilities; and (3) providing bilingual
materials, staff diversity training, extended hours, and
increased community input. To strengthen its connections
with various segments of its community, the museum will
engage in focus groups, surveys, and other evaluations,
creating a framework for continuing dialogue between the
museum and its broader communities.

Hawaii
Iolani Palace - Honolulu, HI
Award Amount: $18,640; Matching Amount:$18,642
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Mr. Stuart Ching
Curator
(808) 522-0834; curator@iolanipalace.org
Project Title: "Iolani Palace Furniture
Cataloging and Evaluation Project"
The Iolani Palace will use its sustaining cultural heritage
grant to support the cataloging and evaluation of the
museum’s furniture collections. The overall project goals
are to increase data available in the collections database
to meet future research, education, and interpretation
needs; and to evaluate furniture pieces for appropriateness
to the mission of the institution.

Idaho
Boise Art Museum - Boise, ID
Award Amount: $82,379; Matching Amount:$90,101
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Melanie Fales
Curator of Education
(208) 345-8 ext. 330x18; Melanie@boiseartmuseum.org
Project Title: "ArtReach"
Boise Art Museum will expand ArtReach, its educational
outreach program targeting rural students who have limited
access to art education and the art museum. Six museum
educators will travel to classrooms outside of urban Ada
County to conduct a 90-minute art lesson using digital
images of artworks from the museum’s permanent collection
and provide supplies for a hands-on art project. ArtReach,
including all supplies, is provided free of charge. Grant
funding will support the expansion of ArtReach to serve
7,800 rural Idaho students and 260 educators. Funds will
assist with the cost of supplies, instructor stipends,
evaluation, and marketing for the ArtReach program.

Illinois
Museum of Contemporary Photography at
Columbia College Chicago - Chicago, IL
Award Amount: $111,791; Matching Amount:$112,028
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Natasha Egan
Associate Director
(312) 344-7107; negan@colum.edu
Project Title: "Museum of Contemporary Photography
Online Collections Database"
The Museum of Contemporary Photography at Columbia College
Chicago will create an online database of the museum’s
collection of more than 8,500 images for access by the
general public, the faculty and students of Columbia College
Chicago, and other art professionals. The project will
also include the conversion of the museum’s limited collection
database program to an upgraded version containing publishing
software to assist in placing the collection online.
National Museum of Mexican Art - Chicago,
IL
Award Amount: $74,000; Matching Amount:$505,766
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Mr. Carlos Tortolero
President
(312) 738-1503 ext. 102; carlost@mfacmchicago.org
Project Title: "Modern Master North and
South of the Border"
The Mexican Fine Arts Center Museum will prepare and present
“Modern Masters North and South of the Border” (January
9–May 18, 2009). The exhibition will track the exchanges
between masters of the Mexican School—such as Diego Rivera,
José Clemente Orozco, and David Alfaro Siqueiros—and modern
U.S. masters such as Thomas Hart Benton and Jackson Pollock.
The exhibition will also investigate the influences of
Mexican art movements, collectives, and workshops on their
corollaries in the United States, especially the exchanges
between Mexican muralists and the muralists of the WPA,
and between the Taller de Gráfica Popular (Popular Graphic
Art Workshop) and African-American muralists of the Harlem
Renaissance and Chicago Renaissance.
Jane Addams Hull-House Museum - Chicago,
IL
Award Amount: $55,286; Matching Amount:$55,978
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Ms. Lisa Lee
Director, Jane Addams Hull-House
(312) 413-5358; lisalee@uic.edu
Project Title: "Reinvigorating the Hull-House
as a center for community engagement"
The grant will support three series of public programs
that inspire civic discourse and civic engagement. These
programs will reinvigorate and restore the Hull-House
Museum as a center for community engagement.
Lincoln Park Zoological Gardens - Chicago,
IL
Award Amount: $129,967; Matching Amount:$166,287
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Elizabeth Lonsdorf
Director, The Lester E. Fisher Center
(312) 742-7354; elonsdorf@lpzoo.org
Project Title: "Using Quantitative Studies
of Animal Behavior To Teach The Value of Science and the
Scientific Method"
As part of its award-winning Regenstein Center for African
Apes (RCAA) and the Lester E. Fisher Center for the Study
and Conservation of Apes, Lincoln Park Zoo has developed
a participatory "citizen science" program in which participants
ages 12 and up can work with zoo researchers to collect
quantitative behavioral data on chimpanzees in the auxiliary
holding area. Participants will learn directly from zoo
researchers how the zoo bases many critical aspects of
animal care and management on rigorous scientific research.
Participants will learn about the science of animal behavior
and how quantitative data collection can produce different
results than "just watching," and after collecting their
data compare it to the data collected by the researcher.
Chicago Academy of Sciences - Chicago,
IL
Award Amount: $103,046; Matching Amount:$143,936
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Mr. Steven Sullivan
Collections Manager
(773) 755-5100 ext. 2042; ssullivan@naturemuseum.org
Project Title: "Inventorying and Databasing
of Natural History Collections"
The Chicago Academy of Sciences and its Peggy Notebaert
Nature Museum will use this grant to undertake databasing
and inventory activities for eight of its natural history
collections.
Lake County Discovery Museum - Libertyville,
IL
Award Amount: $45,000; Matching Amount:$46,234
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Mr. Andrew Osborne
Visitor Services Manager
(847) 968-3383; aosborne@co.lake.il.us
Project Title: "Bonner Heritage Farm Phase
III Exhibits"
Lake County Forest Preserves will use its grant to support
schematic designs for interior renovation and interpretation
of the “Great Barn” at the Bonner Heritage Farm, which
will provide visitors with a fuller picture and understanding
of the entire farm property, a unique historic site that
was operated as a family dairy farm for over 150 years..
Burpee Museum of Natural History - Rockford,
IL
Award Amount: $52,340; Matching Amount:$97,290
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Mr. Lewis Crampton
President
(815) 965-3433 ext. 1009; lew.crampton@burpee.org
Project Title: "PALEO-CSI"
Paleo-CSI is a museum educational program to share the
science and stories behind Homer, a high-impact dinosaur
specimen discovered by a recent Burpee Museum expedition
to the Montana Badlands. Paleo-CSI will foster lifetime
learning, make the museum’s collections more accessible,
and build interest in the museum.

Indiana
Virgil “Gus” Grissom Memorial Center
- Indianapolis, IN
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$150,000
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Chris Baas
Landscape Architect
(317) 232-4157; cbaas@dnr.in.gov
Project Title: "Grissom Memorial"
The Virgil “Gus” Grissom Memorial Center will use grant
funds to design and install new exhibits, enhancing its’
ability to interpret and communicate Grissom’s life story
and contributions to science and space flight, and to
preserve and protect its collection.
Children's Museum of Indianapolis - Indianapolis,
IN
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$1,597,910
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Jennifer Pace-Robinson
Vice President of Experience Development
(317) 334-3834; Jennifer@ChildrensMuseum.org
Project Title: "Global Perspectives"
The Children’s Museum of Indianapolis (TCM) will create
an immersive exhibit experience, “Global Perspectives.”
Anticipated to open in 2008, “Global Perspectives” will
help children and families discover needs and concerns
that are shared by people and cultures around the world.
The 10,000-square-foot exhibit will include six primary
areas: a cultural immersion experience that will feature
a new culture every two or three years, and five surrounding
exhibit areas—Language and Communications, Living Spaces,
Celebrations, Market Place, and Environment. The exhibit
will feature objects from TCM’s 50,000-piece Caplan Collection
of Folk, Fantasy, and Play and from its world collection.
“Global Perspectives” will reach up to 20 million children
and their families over the next 20 years.

Iowa
Family Museum of Arts and Science - Bettendorf,
IA
Award Amount: $35,469; Matching Amount:$119,983
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Mr. Tom Stanger
Exhibits Manager
(563) 344-4154; tstanger@bettendorf.org
Project Title: "The Garden - a bi-lingual
setting in which to play... and learn... together"
The Family Museum of Art and Science in the City of Bettendorf
will use its grant for the physical and content redesign
of an existing exhibition catering to learners age four
and younger. The new design will include the introduction
and use of bilingual (English-Spanish) labels, family
learning guides, and preschool educator guides.
Hartman Reserve Nature Center - Cedar
Falls, IA
Award Amount: $23,937; Matching Amount:$23,937
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Mr. Edward Gruenwald
Nature Center Director
(319) 277-2187; egruenwald@gmail.com
Project Title: "Threatened Species Restoration"
The Hartman Reserve Nature Center will conduct a project
to reintroduce and protect threatened native species,
one amphibian, and three plant species, within the nature
center. The project will use volunteer labor, and integrate
educational and interpretive opportunites into the process.
African American Historical Museum and
Cultural Center of Iowa - Cedar Rapids, IA
Award Amount: $67,520; Matching Amount:$68,115
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Joseph Nolte
Director of Statewide Operations
(319) 862-2101; joenolte@blackiowa.org
Project Title: "Adult Voices, Children's
Eyes: Iowa African American Oral History Project"
The African American Heritage Foundation will train youth
groups across Iowa to conduct oral histories in their
communities. These histories will record important history
at risk and spark a passion for heritage among African
American youth. The histories will be transcribed, and
both the original format and transcriptions will be preserved
in the museum collection. The museum will use the information
gleaned from the project in traveling exhibits and changing
exhibits in its gallery; for a searchable Web database;
and for educational programming. The project goals include
collecting at least 240 oral histories and promoting an
understanding and appreciation of African American history
among African American children and children in general.

Kentucky
Louisville Science Center - Louisville,
KY
Award Amount: $149,775; Matching Amount:$150,000
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Theresa Mattei
Director of Exhibits and Program Planning
(502) 560-7155; theresa.mattei@louisvilleky.gov
Project Title: "Just Add Water"
The Louisville Science Center (LSC) will reinvent and
fabricate “Splash!”—a science-based play exhibit in KidZone,
the LSC’s special hands-on exhibit space for young children.
As a lifelong learning center at the heart of the LSC’s
new comprehensive educational project called “Just Add
Water,” the new “Splash!” will allow visitors of all ages
to participate in a dynamic, engaging science experience
that piques interest in the many properties of water and
empowers parents, grandparents, and other caregivers to
become involved in the education of young children.
Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead
State University - Morehead, KY
Award Amount: $18,710; Matching Amount:$35,584
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Mr. Matt Collinsworth
Director
(606) 783-2204; m.collinsworth@moreheadstate.edu
Project Title: "Kentucky Folk Art Center
Museum Education Program"
The Kentucky Folk Art Center at Morehead State University
will use its grant to expand education outreach for its
exhibit “Kentucky Folk Art and Traditional Music” by purchasing
Apple iPods and creating traveling exhibits for schools
to include images, video and sound files from the museums
collection. There will be training for teachers to use
the technology and printed curriculum guides that tie
the exhibit to statewide learning standards.

Maine
Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum - Brunswick,
ME
Award Amount: $109,238; Matching Amount:$120,120
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Susan Kaplan
Director, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum
(207) 725-3289; skaplan@bowdoin.edu
Project Title: "Northward Over the Great
Ice: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Endeavors"
The Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum on the campus of Bowdoin
College will create an exhibit to commemorate hundredth
anniversary of the day that the American explorer Robert
E. Peary became the first person to reach the North Pole.
“Northward Over the Great Ice” is an artifact-based interpretive
exhibit placeing Peary’s lifelong efforts, and those of
his Western and Inughuit crews, in environmental, technological,
social, and cultural context. The exhibit will provide
the public increased access to the museum’s collections
and new, groundbreaking research, appealing to a broad
audience. The grant funds will help develop some of the
interpretive and outreach components of the exhibition.
Portland Museum of Art - Portland, ME
Award Amount: $142,720; Matching Amount:$144,518
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Dana Baldwin
Director of Education
(207) 775-6148 ext. 3225; dbaldwin@portlandmuseum.org
Project Title: "Visitor Experience Project
- Phase II"
The Portland Museum of Art will improve visitor access
by making significant improvements to exterior signage,
implementing a wayfinding system, providing seating, and
adding in-gallery interpretive tools that focus on the
permanent collection.
General Henry Knox Museum - Thomaston,
ME
Award Amount: $79,234; Matching Amount:$79,666
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Ellen Dyer
Curator/Education Director
(207) 354-0180; archivist@generalknowmuseum.org
Project Title: "A Place in Time: Teachng
Maine Heritage with Place-Basxed Education"
“A Place in Time: Teaching Maine Heritage through Place-Based
Education” is a multicounty collaboration that builds
on multipartnered place-based education initiatives to
forge connections between educators and community resources,
giving teachers historical knowledge and tools for the
classroom. The museum will establish a Center for the
Study of Early American History for teachers, create and
sustain the Midcoast Maine collaboration among historical
organizations and educators, and collaboratively develop
and assess place-based educational curricula and tools
that meet state learning standards.
Yarmouth Historical Society - Yarmouth,
ME
Award Amount: $34,671; Matching Amount:$34,961
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Ms. Marilyn Hinkley
Director/Curator
(207) 846-6259; yarmouthhistoricalsociety@verizon.net
Project Title: "Building Community in the
Community"
This grant will allow the Yarmouth Historical Society
to hire a professional museum educator to meet with community
and school representatives to discuss educational needs
and interests. Three established presentations will be
researched, revised, reformatted, and documented; a new
volunteer docent program will be created; and plans for
future programming and interactive exhibition activities
will be formulated for use in a new, expanded museum facility
and in the community.

Maryland
Museum for Contemporary Arts, Inc. -
Baltimore, MD
Award Amount: $48,221; Matching Amount:$58,221
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Ms. Irene Hofmann
Executive Director
(410) 783-5720; ihofmann@contemporary.org
Project Title: "Community Engaged Artists'
Residencies"
The grant will support two community-engaged artist residencies,
each bringing a nationally significant contemporary artist
to Baltimore to collaborate with members of our community
in the production of new artworks that address issues
of urban history and identity. Los Angeles-based artist
Kiana Ford will engage in a new project that will produce
one of her signature audio walking tours that reveal the
local history and charter of a city, its residents, and
their unique stories. Chicago-based photographer Dawoud
Bey will conduct a summer teen workshop with a group of
at-risk youth, resulting in an exhibition of his portrait
photographs that challenge stereotypical images of African
American and other historically marginalized groups.
Flag House & Star-Spangled Banner Museum
- Baltimore, MD
Award Amount: $101,743; Matching Amount:$101,965
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Stacey Shelnut-Hendrick
Executive Director
(410) 837-1793; director@flaghouse.org
Project Title: "The Flag House Family &
Community Initiative"
Funds will support the Flag House Family and Community
Initiative, which is designed to increase understanding
of current and potential audiences, expand family offerings,
increase activities for neighborhood youth/families, and
raise the museum's visibility with target audiences, in
particular families and African Americans.
Jewish Museum of Maryland - Baltimore,
MD
Award Amount: $148,000; Matching Amount:$230,918
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Karen Falk
Curator
(410) 732-6400; kfalk@jewishmuseummd.org
Project Title: "Lloyd Street Synagogue Speaks:
Reinterpreting a Community Landmark"
Lloyd Street Synagogue (LSS) is the third-oldest synagogue
in the United States. It has been home to three different
immigrant congregations, both Jewish and Christian. Recent
research has uncovered important stories about this landmark.
This project by the Jewish Museum of Maryland will reinterpret
the synagogue in a multicultural perspective.
Baltimore Museum of Industry - Baltimore,
MD
Award Amount: $143,750; Matching Amount:$235,410
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Roland Woodward
Executive Director
(410) 727-4808 ext. 101; rwoodward@thebmi.org
Project Title: "Baltimore Museum of Industry
Visitor Orientation Area and Exhibition"
The Baltimore Museum of Industry will create an orientation
experience to help visitors understand the historical
context and overarching themes that unify the museum’s
exhibit galleries. The space will also be used to assist
visitors in planning how they will explore the museum.

Massachusetts
Discovery Museums - Acton, MA
Award Amount: $64,407; Matching Amount:$64,407
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Denise LeBlanc
Education Director
(978) 264-4200 ext. 20; dleblanc@discoverymuseums.org
Project Title: "Discovery KWEST -- Kids
Who Explore Science Together"
Discovery KWEST is a two-year after-school science enrichment
program for children in grades 4 through 8 at the Boys
and Girls Clubs of MetroWest. It is primarily aimed at
underserved groups. During the school year, the Discovery
Museums hold 24 weekly club meetings, sponsor four museum
fieldtrips, and host a family night.
Historic New England - Boston, MA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$566,075
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Amy Clark
Education Program Coordinator
(617) 227-3957 ext. 272; apeters@historicnewengland.org
Project Title: "Shaping the Future by Defining
the Past"
In 2005, Historic New England marked 20 years of sharing
history with children throughout the Northeast. Hands-on
activities and a wealth of primary sources reinforce and
enrich student learning during in-school and out-of-school
hours. This project will strengthen the organization to
serve the public more effectively, increasing the number
of students served by the program’s existing and planned
activities. Programs at Otis House will be sustained and
made accessible to additional underserved communities
of Chelsea and Comerville. Access to new Pierce House
programs will be offered to additional Dorchester, Roxbury,
and Jamaica Plain groups. New programs will be developed
with partnering teachers at the Quince House in Quincy
for greater Boston schools.
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston - Boston,
MA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$303,762
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Barbara Martin
Associate Director for Public Learning
(617) 369-3307; bmartin@mfa.org
Project Title: "Visitor Research for Learning
Galleries"
The Museum of Fine Arts, Boston (MFA) will use its grant
to support visitor research to prepare for the creation
of four learning galleries in its new Art of the Americas
wing, scheduled to open in 2010. These interactive spaces
will allow visitors to explore a variety of themes related
to the American collection in greater depth, enhancing
their experience in the museum. Visitor research will
help ensure that the galleries are accessible to the widest
possible audience and will meet visitors’ needs. Beginning
in the fall of 2007, the MFA will perform intensive evaluation
of prototypes and draft materials, relying heavily on
hands-on testing, focus groups, staff observations, and
participant feedback.
Boston Children's Museum - Boston, MA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$214,392
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Mr. John Riordan
Vice President, Visitor Services
(617) 426-6500 ext. 469; riordan@bostonchildrensmuseum.org
Project Title: "GoKids in Boston Neighborhoods"
The Boston Children's Museum (BCM) will use its grant
to support GoKids in Boston Neighborhoods, a program that
will focus on children's health and fitness. In collaboration
with public health experts and public housing tenants,
BCM will develop culturally sensitive programs for families
and outreach strategies for the museum's new health and
fitness exhibit and programs. They will design and conduct
programs in four public housing developments and at the
museum that will provide low-income and minority families,
who suffer disproportionately high rates of childhood
obesity and overweight, with information and practical,
culturally sensitive ways to address this epidemic; and
develop and implement strategies for engaging more families
from Boston's public housing developments with the museum.
Harvard University Art Museums - Cambridge,
MA
Award Amount: $137,565; Matching Amount:$137,566
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Susan von Salis
Associate Curator of Archives
(617) 384-7983; susan_vonsalis@harvard.edu
Project Title: "A Prcess of Discovery: Revealing
Treasures in the Harvard University Art Museums' Archive"
The Harvard University Art Museum (HUAM) will identify,
describe, analyze, and catalog its archival collections.
The HUAM archives contain an estimated 1,500,000 documents
and capture historical information, records of significant
events, and the perspectives and opinions of key cultural
figures of the 20th century that pertain to art history,
art collecting, museum theory and practice, and social
history. Under the direction of the associate curator
of archives, this project will support HUAM’s efforts
to expand its services to students and scholars while
fulfilling several strategic goals: (1) improving access
to the art collections; (2) diversifying the museum’s
audience base; (3) informing the functioning and capacities
of HUAM’s study centers; and (4) enriching the curriculum
and the Art Museum Director Training Program.
Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center -
Gloucester, MA
Award Amount: $23,882; Matching Amount:$34,538
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Harriet Webster
Executive Director
(978) 281-0470; hwebster@gloucestermaritimecenter.org
Project Title: "Interpretive Signage and
Companion Interactive Exhibits"
The Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center will design and
fabricate indoor and outdoor interpretive signs and six
interactive exhibits that together will provide insight
into the history of the fishing industry and allied trades,
including shipbuilding and maintenance.
Heritage Plantation of Sandwich - Sandwich,
MA
Award Amount: $72,305; Matching Amount:$100,263
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Jennifer Madden
Director of Collections
(508) 888-3300 ext. 156; jmadden@heritagemuseums.org
Project Title: "Heritage Art Collections
Inventory and Assessment Project"
The Heritage Plantation of Sandwich will process approximately
3,750 objects of the museum's art collections as part
of a comprehensive, long-term collections inventory and
assessment project that will improve collections stewardship
and support the museum's long-range plan including education
and exhibition initiatives.
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley
College - Wellesley, MA
Award Amount: $64,936; Matching Amount:$104,217
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Mr. James Olson
Coordinator of Information Technologies
(781) 283-3234; jolson@wellesley.edu
Project Title: "2007 IMLS Museums for America
Collections Digitization Project"
The Davis Museum and Cultural Center at Wellesley College
is digitizing its collection of approximately 10,000 objects.
The grant will be used over a two-year period for direct
digital capture and metadata creation for 2,500 objects
in the public domain.

Michigan
University of Michigan Art Museum - Ann
Arbor, MI
Award Amount: $149,060; Matching Amount:$149,148
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Dr. James Steward
Director
(734) 764-0395; jsteward@umich.edu
Project Title: "UMMA Interpretive Project"
The University Art Museum at the University of Michigan,
Ann Arbor, will develop layered multimedia interpretive
strategies that offer visitors diverse points of entry
to outstanding original works of art. Grant funding will
support critical research and writing, project management,
and evaluation activities to enable the 2009 reopening
of the facility.
Kingman Museum - Battle Creek, MI
Award Amount: $60,184; Matching Amount:$131,098
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Ms. Sara Briggs
Executive Director
(269) 965-5117; sbriggs@kingmanmuseum.org
Project Title: "MFA 2007 Collections Project"
The Kingman Museum will transfer its collection information
from a card-based format to an electronic format using
PastPerfect collections management software, and will
catalog the collections so they are more accessible for
exhibition, interpretation, and presentation of educational
programs. The museum’s part-time collections manager will
become full time, and the museum will hire an intern and
a part-time data entry person. Volunteers and staff will
peruse old Kingman Museum newsletter and annual reports,
journal entries, and miscellaneous files to gather information
on particular collections and objects. Information on
the collection cards will be checked and packages assembled
for data entry. Accession files will be created.
Ontonagon County Historical Society -
Ontonagon, MI
Award Amount: $50,627; Matching Amount:$68,386
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Mr. Bruce Johanson
Chairman, Board of Directors
(906) 884-6165; johanson@up.net
Project Title: "SHIP and a Scholarship:
Local History for Teens"
The Ontonagon County Historical Society will offer a Summer
History Internship Program (SHIP) for teens to supplement
the history curriculum in the county’s two high schools.
Students will receive a crash course in local history
with professional and amateur historians and then work
as docents at the Historical Society Museum and the historic
lighthouse. The interns will document their activities
for the society’s archives. The society will also establish
an annual history scholarship that recognizes a student
who will major in history or a closely related subject
in college. A consultant will assist the society with
program evaluation.

Minnesota
Walker Art Center - Minneapolis, MN
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$169,000
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Sarah Schultz
Director of Education
(612) 375-7621; sarah.schultz@walkerart.org
Project Title: "Raising Creative Kids Initiative"
The Walker Art Center is consolidating and expanding on
its program for families under the name Raising Creative
Kids project, a multitiered initiative designed to deepen
child, parent, and family engagement with the Walker Art
Center. By engaging children early on as arts learners,
Raising Creative Kids will help to create lifelong learners
who will continue to return to the Walker as teenagers
and adults. Project activities include Free First Saturdays,
classes, guides for families, programs for caregivers,
WAC packs to make the galleries more accessible for families,
and interactive tours and exhibits for more social learning.
Frederick R. Weisman Art Museum, University
of Minnesota - Minneapolis, MN
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$686,844
Grant Category: Sustaining Cultural Heritage
Contact: Dr. Lyndel King
Director
(612) 625-9494; kingx001@umn.edu
Project Title: "Digitization of the Weisman
Art Museum Permanent Collection"
The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at the University
of Minnesota will use the grant to expand the use of and
access to the museum’s collection by making digital images
available online to University faculty and students and
to the general public. The two main components of the
project are (1) to create digital images of the collection
(more than 18,500 objects), and (2) to update the collections
database.MA-01-07-0387
Tamarack Nature Center - White Bear Township,
MN
Award Amount: $118,017; Matching Amount:$120,357
Grant Category: Serving as Centers of Community Engagement
Contact: Ms. Marcie Oltman
Outdoor Education Supervisor
(651) 407-5350; marcie.oltman@co.ramsey.mn.us
Project Title: "Destination of Discovery"
Tamarack Nature Center (TNC) is approaching the middle
stage of a multiyear umbrella project entitled Destination
for Discover. The central purpose of this project is to
redirect TNC away from the passive role of a traditional
center for natural and environmental education toward
becoming an active, vital center of community engagement
that uses the arts, humanities, and sciences to connect
people to nature. TNC will use this grant to fund Destination
for Discovery’s second phase, which includes program design,
schematic/final design, and preparation and design of
a capital campaign.

Mississippi
Lauren Rogers Museum of Art - Laurel,
MS
Award Amount: $58,691; Matching Amount:$58,691
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Mr. Mark Brown
Vice President
(601) 649-6374; mbrown@lrma.org
Project Title: "ArtReach"
The Lauren Rogers Museum of Art is the cultural hub of
a seven-county region in Southeast Mississippi, and the
ArtReach program builds on the museum’s award-winning
education program. ArtReach includes a full-time outreach
coordinator, an artist-in-residence program for schools
and community groups, classes and experiences for underserved
segments of the population, enhancement of the school
tour program to include activities and lesson plans that
correlate with the Mississippi Department of Education
framework, an emerging artist program for secondary school
students, and community participation in the creation
of public murals. By using the museum’s strong collections
and exhibitions to create quality art experiences, ArtReach
opens doors and piques interest in lifelong participation
in the arts.

Missouri
Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art - Kansas
City, MO
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$445,485
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Mr. Kyle Christiansen
Specialist, Applications and Web Systems
(816) 751-1311; kdchristiansen@nelson-atkins.org
Project Title: "Website Enhancement"
The Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art is taking steps to bring
its website up to the same high level as its collections
and programs, by adding more collection information, new
interactive features on art and conservation, education
materials, podcasting of museum programming, and an interactive
museum timeline.

Montana
Yellowstone Art Museum - Billings, MT
Award Amount: $117,825; Matching Amount:$286,022
Grant Category: Supporting Lifelong Learning
Contact: Ms. Linda Ewert
Curator of Education
(406) 256-6804; lewert@artmuseum.org
Project Title: "Art Education Expansion
Effort"
The Yellowstone Art Museum will stabilize its successful
art education program |