The Division of Preservation and Access at the National Endowment for
the Humanities announces a new preventive conservation grant program,
Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections, with a deadline of December 8,
2009. The program offers U.S. nonprofit museums, libraries, and
archives, as well as state and local governmental agencies and tribal
governments with humanities collections two kinds of awards:
*Planning and evaluation grants, with awards up to $40,000
These grants can help institutions assess risks to collections and
identify realistic approaches for mitigating them; examine passive and
low-energy alternatives to conventional energy-intensive systems for
managing environmental conditions; analyze existing climate control
systems and the performance characteristics of buildings and building
envelopes to develop a plan for improved operation, effectiveness, and
energy efficiency; and, evaluate the effectiveness of preventive
conservation strategies previously implemented, including performance
upgrades to systems and building envelopes. Planning and evaluation
projects should involve an interdisciplinary team appropriate to the
goals of the project. The team may consist of consultants and members of
the institution's staff and might include architects, building
engineers, conservation scientists, conservators, curators, and
facilities managers, among others.
*Implementation grants, with awards up to $400,000
These grants can support managing interior relative humidity and
temperature by passive methods such as creating buffered spaces and
housing, controlling moisture at its sources, or improving the thermal
and moisture performance of a building envelope; installing or
re-commissioning heating, ventilating, and air conditioning systems;
installing storage systems and rehousing collections; improving security
and the protection of collections from fire, flood, and other disasters;
and upgrading lighting systems and controls to achieve levels suitable
for collections that are energy efficient.
Guidelines will be posted on the NEH Web site in early September.
Please contact the division for more information by emailing
[log in to unmask] or calling 202-606-8570.
Laura J. Word
Senior Program Officer
Division of Preservation and Access
National Endowment for the Humanities
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W. Room 411
Washington, D.C. 20506
202/606-8570
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