Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections
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Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) 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 museums, libraries, archives, and other collecting institutions strive to be effective stewards of humanities collections, they must find ways to implement preventive conservation measures that are scientifically sound and sustainable. This program therefore helps cultural repositories plan and implement preservation strategies that pragmatically balance effectiveness, cost, and environmental impact. Projects should be designed to be as cost effective, energy efficient, and environmentally sensitive as possible, and they should aim to mitigate the greatest risks to collections rather than to meet prescriptive targets.
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: | 20121204-PF |
Type of Funding: | Grant |
CFDA Numbers: | 45.149 |
CFDA Descriptions: | Promotion of the Humanities_Division of Preservation and Access |
Current Application Deadline: | Dec 04, 2012 |
Original Application Deadline: | Dec 04, 2012 |
Posted Date: | Aug 27, 2012 |
Creation Date: | Aug 27, 2012 |
Archive Date: | Jan 03, 2013 |
Total Program Funding: | |
Maximum Federal Grant Award: | $350,000 |
Minimum Federal Grant Award: | $0 |
Expected Number of Awards: | |
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
- 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 or [email protected]
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