Institute of Museum and Library Services Awards Seven Grants to Libraries in the Southeastern Atlantic States for Critical Conservation
Anne-Imelda M. Radice, Ph.D., Director of the U.S. Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), announced the 65 museum recipients of the 2007 Conservation Project Support (CPS) grants totaling $4.9 million. The grant program helps museums identify conservation needs and priorities and perform activities to ensure the safekeeping of its collections. [What is discovered, learned and applied in these projects may well be put to good use in medical libraries, too.] http://www.imls.gov/news/2007/051007_list.shtm#DC
District of Columbia
Woodrow Wilson House, National Trust for Historic Preservation - Washington, DC
Award Amount: $76,022; Matching Amount:$77,760
Grant Category: Survey of collections
Contact: Mr. Frank Aucella
(202)387-4062×011; faucella@woodrowwilsonhouse.org
1785 Massachusetts Avenue, NW.
Washington, DC 20036-2117
Project Title: “Woodrow Wilson House Comprehensive Conservation Planning”
The National Trust will use its grant to conduct an environmental survey of the Woodrow Wilson House’s building and existing mechanical systems to develop priorities for collections improvements and a strategy for mechanical upgrades. The Woodrow Wilson House is a national historic landmark and house museum that focuses on President Woodrow Wilson’s Washington Years (1912-1924).
Florida
Henry B. Plant Museum - Tampa, FL
Award Amount: $43,494; Matching Amount:$48,844
Grant Category: Survey of collections
Contact: Mrs. Susan Carter
Curator / Registrar
(813)258-7303; scarter@ut.edu
401 West Kennedy Boulevard
Tampa, FL 33606-1450
Project Title: “Detailed Survey”
The Henry B. Plant Museum will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of nearly 2,000 pieces in its permanent collections, including archives, furniture, and decorative arts. The museum is housed in a former late Victorian-era railroad resort hotel, the Tampa Bay Hotel, and interprets the lifestyle of the hotel and the beginnings of Florida’s tourist industry.
Georgia
Center for Puppetry Arts - Atlanta, GA
Award Amount: $17,250; Matching Amount:$17,827
Grant Category: Survey of collections
Contact: Mr. Alan Louis
Director of Museum and Education Programs
(404)881-5144; alanlouis@puppet.org
1404 Spring Street NW
Atlanta, GA 30309-2820
Project Title: “Detailed Condition Survey of the Center for Puppetry Arts’ Asian Puppet Collection”
The Center for Puppetry Arts will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of the Center’s Asian collection of 650 puppets and related performing objects of historical, cultural, religious, sociopolitical, and artistic significance. The puppets in this collection represent China, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Myanmar, Sri Lanka, Thailand, and Vietnam, as well as the Asia Minor countries of Turkey and Israel.
Maryland
B & O Railroad Museum - Baltimore, MD
Award Amount: $26,979; Matching Amount:$27,493
Grant Category: Survey of collections
Contact: Mr. David Shackelford
Chief Curator
(410)752-2490; chiefcurator@borail.org
901 West Pratt Street
Baltimore, MD 21223-2644
Project Title: “Assessing the Small-Object Collections of the B&O Railroad Museum”
The Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Museum will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of the museum’s vast historic paper-based and audiovisual collections, which include motion picture film, videos, sound recordings, photographic prints, slides, transparencies, and glass plate/film negatives related to early American railroading. The paper holdings include periodicals and trade publications, documents of early B&O Railroad presidents, corporate records from 1827, old payroll files, manuscripts, maps, engineering drawings, and lithographs.
North Carolina
North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation, Inc. - Raleigh, NC
Award Amount: $17,047; Matching Amount:$18,636
Grant Category: Survey of collections
Contact: Mr. William Brown
Chief Conservator
(919)664-6812; wbrown@ncmamail.dcr.state.nc.us
4630 Mail Service Center
Raleigh, NC 27699
Project Title: “NCMA Detailed Condition Survey - Objects and Textiles”
The North Carolina Museum of Art Foundation will use its grant to conduct a detailed condition survey of ancient art and ethnographic materials, decorative arts, contemporary sculpture, and African textiles.
Virginia
Chrysler Museum of Art - Norfolk, VA
Award Amount: $96,382; Matching Amount:$96,382
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment
Contact: Mrs. Catherine Wass
Deputy Director of Operations
(757)965-2037; cjordan@chrysler.org
245 West Olney Road
Norfolk, VA 23510-1587
Project Title: “Collection Storage Renovation”
The Chrysler Museum of Art will use its grant to purchase and install new storage equipment in which to properly house the museum’s reserve collection of small and medium size paintings.
Colonial Williamsburg Foundation - Williamsburg, VA
Award Amount: $150,000; Matching Amount:$253,173
Grant Category: Provision of optimum environment
Contact: Dr. Marley Brown
Director of Archaeological Research
(757)220-7331; mbrown2@cwf.org
P.O. Box 1776
Williamsburg, VA 23187-1776
Project Title: “Improving Environmental Storage for Archaeological Collections”
Colonial Williamsburg will use its grant to purchase and install new storage furniture and supplies with which to properly house the museum’s archaeological and architectural collections. These collections represent an important resource for the study of colonial life and the early history of the United States.
