Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
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Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting preventive conservation measures that mitigate deterioration and prolong the useful life of collections. Libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country are responsible for collections of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art, and historical objects that facilitate research, strengthen teaching, and provide opportunities for life-long learning in the humanities. To preserve and ensure continued access to such collections, institutions must implement preventive conservation measures, which encompass managing relative humidity, temperature, light, and pollutants in collection spaces, providing protective storage enclosures and systems for collections, and safeguarding collections from theft and from natural and man-made disasters. As they strive to be effective stewards of humanities collections, cultural repositories are increasingly interested in sustainable preservation strategies. NEH therefore invites proposals that explore and implement energy-efficient and cost-effective preventive conservation measures designed to mitigate the greatest risks to collections. To help institutions develop sound preventive conservation projects, NEH encourages collaborative and interdisciplinary planning, which may be especially helpful for identifying sustainable strategies. Such planning would include consideration of the following factors: the nature of the materials in a collection; the performance of the building, its envelope, and its systems in moderating internal environmental conditions; the capabilities of the institution; the nature of the local climate and the effects of climate change; the cost-effectiveness and energy efficiency of various approaches to preventive conservation; and the project's impact on the environment.
Federal Grant Title: | Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections |
Federal Agency Name: | National Endowment for the Humanities |
Grant Categories: | Humanities |
Type of Opportunity: | Discretionary |
Funding Opportunity Number: | 20091208-PF |
Type of Funding: | Grant |
CFDA Numbers: | 45.149 |
CFDA Descriptions: | Promotion of the Humanities_Division of Preservation and Access |
Current Application Deadline: | Dec 08, 2009 |
Original Application Deadline: | Dec 08, 2009 |
Posted Date: | Aug 20, 2009 |
Creation Date: | Aug 20, 2009 |
Archive Date: | Jan 07, 2010 |
Total Program Funding: | |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $400,000 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $0 |
Expected Number of Awards: | 20 |
Cost Sharing or Matching: | No |
- Applicants Eligible for this Grant
- State governments - County governments - City or township governments - Special district governments - Public and State controlled institutions of higher education - Native American tribal governments (Federally recognized) - Nonprofits having a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Nonprofits that do not have a 501(c)(3) status with the IRS, other than institutions of higher education - Private institutions of higher education
- Link to Full Grant Announcement
- Information not provided
- Grant Announcement Contact
- Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Division of Preservation and Access Room 411 National Endowment for the Humanities 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20506 202-606-8570
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