> April 17, 2001***Press Release from the Federal Institute of Museum and
> Library Services (IMLS)***(IMLS)Press Contacts: 202-606-8339, Eileen
> Maxwell [log in to unmask] or Mamie Bittner [log in to unmask]
>
> $6 Million for Critical Conservation Work at Nation's Museums
> Over $2 Million from Federal Institute of Museum and Library Services
>
> Washington, DC-Beverly Sheppard, on behalf of the federal Institute of
> Museum and Library Services (IMLS), announced today the 73 recipients of
> the 2001 Conservation Project Support grants.  The grants totaled
> $2,226,817 with recipients matching the awards with an additional
> $4,692,106.  IMLS received 169 applications for a wide range of critical
> conservation projects, including treatment, training, research, and
> surveys.  Museums nationwide, large and small, of all types from art to
> zoo, were funded.  (List of recipients in your state follows at end of
> press release.
>
> A diversity of projects, from the preservation of sculptures by
> African-American folk artist Felix "Fox" Harris at the Art Museum of
> Southeast Texas in Beaumont, to the conservation of Gilbert Stuart's
> 1805-07 portrait paintings of Thomas Jefferson and James Madison at
> Bowdoin College Museum of Art in Brunswick, Maine, to behavioral
> observation of silverback gorillas at Zoo Atlanta in Georgia, will be
> funded.
>
> "We are fortunate to live in a country which strives to preserve its
> resources, cultural and natural," said Sheppard.  "We must continue this
> race against time so that the story of our heritage can be told in all it
> richness and future generations will not experience the sorrow of lost
> artifacts, vanished places, and extinct species. For these precious
> cultural, aesthetic, and natural resources sustain us spiritually and
> physically, and give continuity and meaning to our communities."
>
> A recent survey of conservation professionals found that IMLS support,
> leadership, and advocacy has improved the quality of conservation.  IMLS
> is dedicated to the advancement of preventative conservation by funding
> the application and dissemination of museums' conservation work.  Seven of
> today's recipients will receive additional awards to develop public
> education programs and/or to disseminate professional practices associated
> with their conservation project.  Among them are the Riverside Municipal
> Museum in California for general public workshops and exhibits on the
> conservation of cultural and geological objects in their collection and
> Manitoga in Garrison, NY to document and publish innovative conservation
> techniques of Russell Wright's studio, the seminal 20th century American
> industrial designer.
>
> Conservation Project Support grants are awarded through competitive peer
> review and require, at least, a one-to-one match by the recipient.
> Sixty-two conservation professionals evaluated the grant applications;
> three panels of 19 professionals made the final funding recommendations.
> The next deadline for Conservation Project Support grant applications is
> October 15, 2001.  To learn how to apply, click on
> http://www.imls.gov/grants/museum/mus_cps.asp or telephone IMLS at
> 202-606-8540
>
> About the Institute of Museum and Library Service (IMLS) - IMLS is an
> independent Federal agency that fosters leadership, innovation, and a
> lifetime of learning by supporting the nation's 15,000 museums and 122,000
> libraries.  Created by the Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, P.L.
> 104-208, IMLS has an annual budget of $230 million.  The Institute
> receives policy advice from two Presidentially appointed, Senate confirmed
> entities:  the National Commission for Libraries and Information Science
> and the National Museum Services Board.  For more information, including
> grant applications, contact IMLS at 1100 Pennsylvania Ave., NW,
> Washington, D.C. 202-606-8536, www.imls.gov.
>
> Alabama, Montgomery Museum of Fine Arts, Montgomery $2,443
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of forty-five important oil
> paintings from the Museum's permanent collection, including works by
> Frederick Warren Freer, Frank Duveneck, J. Frank Currier, J. Kelly
> Fitzpatrick, and Anne Goldthwaite.  Applicant Match: 3,815
>
> Alaska, heldon Museum and Cultural Center
> Haines                                        32,743
> To purchase compacting storage units to rehouse the Museum's library,
> photograph, and audiovisual collections.
> Applicant Match: 68,328
>
> Valdez Museum and Historical Archive
> Valdez                                        4,764
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of important local objects
> including the Pinzon Bar, ca. 1912, installed in a bar in Old Valdez which
> was a very popular gathering place; two stagecoaches from the early
> 1900's; a lifeboat used to rescue passengers after the cruise ship
> Prinsendam caught fire in Prince William Sound in 1980; the Perry, a
> fishing boat built on Perry Island in 1939; and a snow removal machine
> brought to Alaska in 1926 for the Wilkins Polar Expedition.
> Applicant Match: 4,800.
>
> Arkansas
> University Museum, University of Arkansas
> Fayetteville                          22,696
> To purchase closed metal cabinets, acid-free specimen trays and label
> sleeves to rehouse the Museum's rock and mineral collection of
> approximately 12,000 specimens.
> Applicant Match: 22,904.
>
> California
> Mendocino Coast Botanical Gardens
> Fort Bragg                            30,899
> To map the Gardens' woody plant collections with BG-Map, an AutoCAD-based
> mapping system that will enable creation of a computerized field
> inventory, giving the Gardens the ability to sort and layer maps based on
> any criteria in the database as well as a very powerful collections
> documentation, management and interpretation tool.
> Applicant Match: 42,323.
>
> Mendocino County Museum
> Willits                                       10,671
> To produce full format duplicate negatives from 411 large format nitrate
> and diacetate photographic negatives in the Bavo Collection, recorded by
> professional photographer H.H. Wonacott between 1917 and 1947.  These
> negatives capture a quarter-century of local history on the Mendocino
> Coast.
> Applicant Match: 10,839.
>
> Oakland Museum of California
> Oakland                               50,000
> To treat five, large-scale, outdoor sculptures by noted California artists
> of the 1970's and 1980's including: Mark Di Suvero, Jim Huntington, Peter
> Forakis, Jan Evans, and Henry Rollins.
> Applicant Match: 67,568.
>
> Phoebe Hearst Museum of Anthropology
> Berkeley                              24,444
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's audio, still and
> moving image collections.  Represented in the collection are American
> subjects by Curtis, Watkins, Jackson, O'Sullivan, Hillers, Monson, and
> Sharp, Californian ethnographic field photographs during fieldwork by
> Kroeber, Waterman, and Gifford, and 451,534 running feet of film, the bulk
> produced by the American Indian Film Project directed at the Museum by
> anthropologist Samuel Barrett between 1957 and 1965.  Applicant Match:
> 39,365.
> Riverside Municipal Museum
> Riverside                             39,005
> $34,570 to conduct detailed condition surveys of the Museum's collections
> of ethnographic material, paintings, and diorama murals.  An education
> component to fund $4,435 for five workshops targeted at the general public
> on the conservation of cultural and geological objects, and five temporary
> exhibits that include museum objects illustrating principal agents of
> deterioration.  Applicant Match: 63,954.
>
> San Diego Natural History Museum
> San Diego                             50,000
> To purchase new steel cases to rehouse the Museum's entomology collection
> that includes 980,000 pinned and labeled insects and 20,000 insects
> preserved in ethanol.
> Applicant Match: 60,193.
>
> Zoological Society of San Diego
> San Diego                             31,575
> To examine the ecology and reproductive biology of the Komodo monitor
> lizard, establishing a database for the managers of the North American
> captive population.  This database will also help in the management of the
> Komodo monitor in its natural setting.
> Applicant Match: 151,858.
>
> Colorado
> Colorado Historical Society
> Denver                                        49,702
> To rehouse 14,000 artifacts illustrating Colorado's history and peoples,
> including clothing accessories, toys, recreational items and personal
> effects from temporary storage to permanent quarters, relocate and rehouse
> 120 artifacts including tools, household furnishings, and three
> horse-drawn vehicles from the Museum's satellite facilities, and improve
> the individual housing of select paper items from the Books and
> Manuscripts collection.
> Applicant Match: 86,206.
>
> Denver Art Museum
> Denver                                        38,120
> To survey, document, and rehouse the Museum's important collection of 160
> ecclesiastical vestments and textiles including a late 15th century
> Spanish panel composed of six scenes representing events from the passion
> of Christ, and an altar frontal composed of sumptuous pile-on-pile
> brocaded velvet with pomegranate pattern.  Applicant Match: 58,700.
>
> Denver Botanic Gardens
> Denver                                        10,320
> To conduct a general conservation survey of the Garden's living and
> non-living systematics plant collections.  Applicant Match: 12,815.
>
> Connecticut
> Fairfield Historical Society
> Fairfield                             10,880
> To purchase new storage cabinets and archival supplies to rehouse the
> Society's collection of costume accessories, including a man's embroidered
> pocketbook from 1769, militia chapeau produced in a local hatter's shop,
> 18th century silk calashes, early 19th century straw bonnets, painted
> leather slippers from 1800, silk damask and brocade shoes from the 1750's,
> and early 19th century stamped and embroidered silk aprons.  Applicant
> Match: 41,292.
>
> Delaware
> Winterthur
> Winterthur                            45,856
> To rehouse and provide conservation treatment for the Maxine Waldron
> Collection of paper dolls, toys, games, and children's books in the
> Winterthur Library.
> Applicant Match: 54,432.
>
> Florida
> Mel Fisher Martime Heritage Society
> Key West                              21,680
> To conduct a comprehensive environmental monitoring program and purchase
> new metal shelving units to rehouse the Society's Faunal Collection.
> Applicant Match: 34,183.
>
> Museum of Discovery and Science
> Fort Lauderdale                       50,000
> To design and install a state-of-the-art electronic monitoring system for
> twelve aquariums and pools in the Museum's flagship exhibition "Florida
> Ecoscapes," a 9,000 square foot immersive experience presenting Florida's
> unique ecosystems and biological diversity.
> Applicant Match: 74,474.
>
> Georgia
> Zoo Atlanta
> Atlanta                                       52,638
> $42,670 to study the behavior of male silverback gorillas currently living
> in all-male groups at the Zoo to increase basic understanding of their
> behavior and address applied issues surrounding their successful long-term
> management.  An education component to fund $9,968 to develop
> a state-of-the-art video presentation to educate
> the public about gorillas, develop video
> interactives that allow the public to act as
> scientists studying gorillas, and develop
> general educational materials on all-male
> groups for distribution with the interactive to
> zoos participating in the study for use at their
> institutions.  Applicant Match: 58,047.
>
> Illinois
> Morton Arboretum
> Lisle                                 12,125
> To improve root growth and promote long-term health of the Arboretum's Oak
> Collection by repairing a declining subsurface drainage system to allow
> for drainage of excess water from the soil.  Applicant Match: 16,975.
>
> Chicago Zoological Society
> Brookfield                            49,914
> To improve the efficacy of bird care for two avian taxa: tanagers and
> Hawaiian honeycreepers, by testing the impact of artificial ultraviolet
> light exposure on breeding success. Applicant Match: 74,755.
>
> Glessner House Museum
> Chicago                               8,280
> To conduct an environmental survey to plan for improvements to the
> Museum's environment.  The House is the former home of industrialists John
> and Frances Glessner, and designed in 1886 by American architect Henry
> Hobson Richardson.  Applicant Match: 8,291.
>
> Illinois State Museum
> Springfield                           46,016
> To purchase new museum storage cabinets and supplies to rehouse the
> Museum's collection of about 30,000 freshwater bivalves.
> Applicant Match: 87,855.
>
> Oriental Institute Museum
> Chicago                               50,000
> To purchase storage cabinets and archival packing materials to rehouse a
> portion of the Museum's ancient Egyptian pottery collection.  Applicant
> Match: 53,636.
>
> Kentucky
> Locust Grove Historic Home
> Louisville                            4,148
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of 30 high priority objects
> including a 1761 Clark family teapot by silversmith Samuel Wheat, a pair
> of early 19th century leather globes, a circa. 1820 surveyor's brass
> circumferentor by Richard Patten, a primitive bee box, and a commemorative
> sword presented to General George Rogers Clark in 1812.  Also, a training
> workshop on the care of three-dimensional objects will be presented to all
> museum staff.
> Applicant Match: 4,148.
>
> Speed Art Museum
> Louisville                            29,139
> $19,139 to conduct a technical paint analysis on a richly detailed plaster
> mantel from an important 17th century English paneled room.  Also, related
> architectural and documentary research will be conducted.  An education
> component to fund $10,000 to publish a booklet for public distribution
> that documents the findings of the technical analysis and research.
> Applicant Match: 35,182.
>
> Maine
> Bowdoin College Museum of Art
> Brunswick                             6,662
> To treat two icons of American history and portraiture, Gilbert Stuart's
> Portrait of Thomas Jefferson (1805-07) and Portrait of James Madison
> (1805-07).  Applicant Match: 6,662.
>
> Portland Museum of Art
> Portland                              18,581
> To treat six important paintings by Charles Codman (1800-1842), together
> with four of the paintings' period frames.
> Applicant Match: 18,581.
>
> Maryland
> Thrasher Carriage Museum
> Cumberland                            12,689
> To improve environmental conditions within the Museum building, a 7,000
> foot square two-story late 19th century structure, by caulking windows and
> doors and inserting foam backer rods to prevent unconditioned air and dirt
> from entering; designing and implementing an integrated pest management
> plan, installing UV-absorbing filtration on all windows, and monitoring
> climatic conditions to identify needed HVAC system improvements.
> Applicant Match: 12,689.
>
> Massachusetts
> Arnold Arboretum
> Jamaica Plain                         48,975
> To enter label information of 26,974 existing voucher specimens into
> BG-Base, the Arboretum's computerized living collections database.  Also,
> to conduct voucher specimen identification, preparation and data entry.
> This will allow the Arboretum to integrate the living collections database
> with the voucher specimen database.  This integration will facilitate the
> rapid retrieval of information from the herbarium and the efficient
> collection of voucher specimens from the grounds.
> Applicant Match: 75,968.
>
> Ipswich Historical Society
> Ipswich                               3,065
> To purchase environmental monitoring equipment to assess the temperature
> and relative humidity within the 19th century Heard House, former home of
> merchant John Heard.  Also, to purchase 54 light-blocking window shades
> and implement a monitoring program.
> Applicant Match: 5,719.
>
> Mount Holyoke College Art Museum
> South Hadley                          50,000
> To purchase new storage cabinets and screens to rehouse the Museum's
> collection of small-scale three-dimensional objects including Egyptian,
> Greek and Roman ceramics; Asian netsuke, snuff bottles, ceramics, bronzes,
> and lacquer wares; Pre-Columbian ceramics and sculpture; ancient,
> Renaissance and modern coins and medals, and European and American
> decorative arts.  Applicant Match: 82,957.
>
> Museum of Fine Arts
> Boston                                        33,305
> To conduct a storage assessment of approximately 3,200 three-dimensional
> costume accessories in the Museum's collection of Textiles and Fashion
> Arts, and to design prototype storage mounts for their rehousing.
> Applicant Match: 93,144.
> Michigan
> Detroit Institute of Arts
> Detroit                                       48,648
> To purchase new powder-coated roll storage cabinets to rehouse the
> Museum's collection of important Coptic, Seljuk, Safavid, Islamic,
> Hispano-Moresque, European, Indian, Native American, Japanese, Chinese and
> African textiles.  Applicant Match: 83,943.
>
> Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village
> Dearborn                              50,000
> To assess and rehouse 28,000 of the 54,000 fire-damaged nitrate-and
> acetate-film-based photonegatives in the Ford Motor Company archival
> collections in the Museum's archives.
> Photographed and collected between 1903 and 1950, the negatives in this
> collection are the central photographic records of the company and a vital
> resource for historians and museum programs.  Applicant Match: 70,061.
>
> Kresge Art Museum
> East Lansing                          42,465
> To install a new compact rack system that will provide additional space
> for painting storage for the Museum's collection of 380 paintings from the
> 14th through the 21st centuries.
> Applicant Match: 42,465.
>
> Minnesota
> Science Museum of Minnesota
> St. Paul                              53,915
> $43,940 to purchase two Elecompack compactor bases and 16 Delta Design
> herbarium cabinets to house more than 5,000 herbarium sheets and the
> duplicate materials.  An education component to fund $9,975 for the
> production of two-to-three small table-top exhibits, supporting videos and
> a web page that will show what causes the deterioration of the new moss
> collection.  Applicant Match: 73,709.
>
> Missouri
> Museum of Art and Archaeology
> Columbia                              20,860
> To purchase materials and equipment for environmental improvements;
> rehouse the Museum's collection of ancient metal objects and
> archaeological shards and lamps from the ancient Mediterranean in new
> metal cabinets; and rehouse the non-ceramic archaeological objects from
> Israel in appropriate padded bags, boxes, and trays.  Applicant Match:
> 20,969.
>
> Nebraska
> Nebraska State Historical Society
> Lincoln                               39,375
> $35,006 to purchase new storage equipment and materials to rehouse the
> Society's archaeological records collection, consisting of archaeological
> site files and oversized maps.  An education component to fund $4,369 for
> the development and public distribution of a booklet highlighting the
> importance and care of archaeological records collections. The booklet
> will provide the basic information necessary for proper archaeological
> document handling and storage.  Applicant Match: 52,330.
>
> New Hampshire
> Belknap Mill Society
> Laconia                               50,000
> To conserve the exterior masonry of the 1823 Mill by conducting selective
> repointing.  Much of the original mortar will be retained, new mortar will
> match historic mortar joints, and missing and damaged bricks along the
> lower courses will be replaced with replica bricks.
> Applicant Match: 141,745.
>
> Canterbury Shaker Village
> Canterbury                            31,734
> To treat the original woodwork in the Village's 1793 Dwelling House, one
> of the most significant of its twenty-five original Shaker buildings.
> Applicant Match: 33,957.
>
> New Jersey
> Newark Museum Association
> Newark                                22,425
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of selected African wood
> sculptures, utilitarian objects, bead ornaments, musical instruments, and
> ritual and entertainment masks.
> Applicant Match: 32,966.
>
> Noyes Museum of Art
> Oceanville                            7,579
> To purchase environmental monitoring equipment and conservation supplies
> necessary to assess the light, humidity and temperature conditions in the
> Museum's storage vaults and galleries.  Applicant Match: 7,579.
>
> New Mexico
> Millicent Rogers Museum
> Taos                                  41,582
> To purchase new powder-coated steel cabinets and compact, rolling art
> screens to rehouse two at-risk collections: Hispanic religious wood
> carvings (bultos) and Hispanic religious paintings on wood (retablos); and
>
> two-dimensional art works (paintings in all media).  Applicant Match:
> $55,075.
>
> New York
> American Museum of Natural History
> New York                              49,999
> To treat and rehouse 660 African barkcloth objects from the Museum's
> ethnology collections.  Applicant Match: 53,332.
>
> Brooklyn Museum of Art
> Brooklyn                              50,000
> To purchase and install compact and custom shelving to improve housing for
> the Museum's two distinguished research libraries, the Art Reference
> Library and Wilbour Library of Egyptology.   Applicant Match: 304,450.
>
> Genesee Country Village and Museum
> Mumford                               34,074
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's collection of
> paintings that include many portraits of local residents, a premier
> collection of sporting and wildlife art, and art of the American Southwest
> dating from the 1600's through the 1990's.  Applicant Match: 37,146.
>
> Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art
> Ithaca                                        29,560
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's collection of 620
> East Asian paintings and calligraphy, and a Chinese album of paintings
> held by the Rare and Manuscript Collections of Cornell's Carl A. Kroch
> Library for Asian Studies.  Applicant Match: 30,541.
>
> Manitoga
> Garrison                              53,373
> $48,769 to repair the roof and deteriorated elements of the studio of
> Russel Wright (1904-1976), one of the most influential American industrial
> designers of the 20th century.  An education component to fund $4,604 for
> a seminar on "Restoring Russel Wright's mid-20th century modernist studio
> roof and related deterioration in the context of conserving 20th century
> modernist structures."  Up to $10,000 in addition to document and
> disseminate information on the innovative conservation techniques and
> methodology used.
> Applicant Match: 53,375.
>
> Olana State Historic Site
> Hudson                                22,445
> To hire a half-time conservation technician for one year to rehouse 1,800
> works of art on paper, including 400 graphite drawings by Frederic Edwin
> Church, 300 drawings by Camille Pissarro and Fritz Melbye, and 250 oil
> sketches by all three artists.  Applicant Match: 40,412.
>
> Strong Museum
> Rochester                             48,202
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of 4,500 toys from the Museum's
> unrivaled collection of  late 19th to early 20th  century American and
> European playthings including wagons and cars, ships, trains, airplanes,
> banks and many early clockwork pieces.  Applicant Match: 48,415.
>
> Whitney Museum of American Art
> New York                              50,000
> To create a climate-controlled cold storage vault to house and preserve
> the Museum's existing photography collection and film and video
> collections, and to create a preparation and viewing room for preparatory
> work for storage and display.  Applicant Match: 579,133.
>
> North Carolina
> Ackland Art Museum
> Chapel Hill                           26,000
> To treat a Japanese painted screen dating from the 15th century.  The
> screen is a painting in ink and color on paper that is attributed to
> Sesshu Toyo (1420-1506), the most celebrated Japanese Zen artist of the
> Ashikaga period (1392-1573).
> Applicant Match: 39,520.
>
> Duke University Museum of Art
> Durham                                15,261
> To conduct a general conservation survey of the Museum's collections and
> establish a long-range conservation plan.
> Applicant Match: 15,998.
>
> Ohio
> Canton Museum of Art
> Canton                                        6,305
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's 237 oil and acrylic
> paintings including works by Beechy, Diaz, Fantin-Latour, Gerome,
> Jordeans, Vanheyden, Beal, Bellows, Brush, Cox, Duveneck, Greene,
> Glackens, Moran, Pearlstein, Stuart, and Zorach.
> Applicant Match: 6,305.
>
> Pennsylvania
> Academy of Natural Sciences
> Philadelphia                          46,896
> To purchase 25 new metal cabinets and associated metal trays to rehouse
> the Museum's ornithology collection that includes 189,400 study skins
> representing nearly 8,000 of the world's known 10,000 species of birds.
> Applicant Match: 69,797.
>
> Carnegie Museum of Art
> Pittsburgh                            50,000
> To re-mat a large and significant collection of Japanese prints that are
> currently adhered to their mats with tapes or dabs of adhesive.  Rehousing
> is necessary to arrest their deterioration from contact with damaging
> materials and to make them safely available for exhibition and study.
> Applicant Match: 131,974.
>
> Chester County Historical Society
> West Chester                          20,891
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Society's collection of
> wooden trade signs, and purchase storage equipment and supplies to
> properly rehouse the collection.
> Applicant Match: 20,891.
>
> Landis Valley Museum
> Lancaster                             49,374
> To rehouse and relocate 40,000 objects to permanent locations in the new
> climate-controlled Landis Collections Gallery.  Objects include: firearms,
> works on paper, tools, implements, early engines and plows, saddlery and
> other leather, textiles, spinning and weaving equipment, transportation
> artifacts, baskets and wooden ware, glass and ceramics, gravestones, toys
> and games, tin and iron, trade signs, folk art, medical and veterinary
> instruments, musical instruments, and furniture.
> Applicant Match: 461,626.
>
> Philadelphia Museum of Art
> Philadelphia                          28,830
> To purchase and install new storage cases and racks for the Museum's
> collection of delicate archaeological stuccoes from sites at Rayy and Chal
> Tarkhan, both near present-day Teheran, Iran, excavated in 1931, and 350
> pieces of Japanese metalwork including Japanese swords, sword fittings,
> helmets and war masks.  Applicant Match: 44,804.
>
> Railroad Museum of Pennsylvania
> Strasburg                             49,150
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's 94-piece collection
> of historic locomotives and railcars including 22 steam engines, six
> electric locomotives, six diesel-electric locomotives, one gasoline
> switcher, six self-propelled passenger cars, 21 passenger cars, 21 freight
> cars and 11 maintenance of way/non-revenue cars.  Applicant Match:
> 107,821.
>
> Tennessee
> Clarksville-Montgomery County Museum
> Clarksville                           21,311
> To purchase eight storage cabinets to rehouse the Museum's 5,000 small
> three-dimensional object collection including chemistry, medical, and
> dental equipment; toys and games; kitchen implements; photography
> equipment; china; weapons and military objects; film, sound, and print
> equipment; containers; personal items; and geological and archaeological
> specimens.  Also, to purchase two hygrothermographs to assist in
> monitoring and regulating the storage environment.  Applicant Match:
> 51,646.
>
> James K. Polk Ancestral Home
> Columbia                              1,960
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Home's 63 object textile
> collection including material culture, costumes and costume accessories,
> and political material culture that belonged to either President and Mrs.
> Polk or helps tell the story of the 11th President.
> Applicant Match: 1,960.
>
> Texas
> Art Museum of Southeast Texas
> Beaumont                              8,911
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of 120 visionary folk art
> sculptures created by African-American artist, Felix "Fox" Harris.
> Applicant Match: 12,475.
>
> Fulton Mansion State Historical Park
> Fulton                                        3,000
> To purchase and install a rolled textile storage system to properly and
> effectively store the Mansion's textile collection including doilies,
> tablecloths, bedding, original Fulton lace, towels, quilts, mantle
> lambrequins, and chair covers.  Also, to purchase three hygrothermographs
> to record and measure temperature and relative humidity to identify
> problems with the Mansion's environment.  Applicant Match: 3,000.
>
> Scurry County Museum
> Snyder                                        10,460
> To purchase new metal shelving to properly rehouse 1,767 objects from the
> Museum's collection, including apparel, housekeeping and household
> accessories, bedding, packages and containers, recreation, and books and
> papers.  Also, to conduct a workshop on rehousing museum artifacts for
> in-house staff and museum staff from other area museums.
> Applicant Match: 11,961.
>
> Vermont
> Shelburne Museum
> Shelburne                             33,900
> To create a one-year Advanced Conservation Internship in objects
> conservation of the Museum's doll collection.  Also, to treat selected
> dolls from the Museum's collection in preparation for their reinstallation
> in the renovated Variety Unit, one of the Museum's oldest buildings, in
> early 2003.
> Applicant Match: 44,616.
>
> Virginia
> Art Museum of Western Virginia
> Roanoke                               9,727
> To conduct a detailed condition survey of about 250 items in the Museum's
> Japanese print collection.  Applicant Match: 22,542.
>
> Mariner's Museum
> Newport News                  6,428
> To purchase new powder-coated steel cabinets and conservation supplies to
> rehouse the Museum's collection of 1290 maps (pre-1900).  The maps are
> important primary resource materials for the study of 16th-19th centuries,
> providing graphic documentation of the era's tremendous growth in
> knowledge of the world and political struggles to dominate the known
> world.  Applicant Match: 7,806.
>
> Wisconsin
> Chippewa Valley Museum
> Eau Claire                            50,000
> To purchase new storage cabinets to rehouse a substantial portion of the
> Museum's artifact collection including over 1,000 objects relating to
> farming and farm life; the Gillette/Uniroyal Collection of tires, horse
> collars, ice cream shippers, manufacturing tools and equipment, work
> clothing and union materials; and the Schlegelmilch Collection of four
> generations of German immigrant material.  Also, to build 102 custom
> mounts for large artifacts and oddly shaped tools and oxygen-free
> containers for 26 rubber artifacts.   Applicant Match: 240,749.
>
> Elvejhem Museum of Art
> Madison                               33,915
> To treat ten Old Master paintings from the Museum's permanent collection
> including works by Giorgio Vasari, Gaspard Dughet, Hubert Robert,
> Claude-Joseph Vernet, and Sir William Beechey.  Applicant Match: 34,025.
>
> Milwaukee Public Museum
> Milwaukee                             32,112
> To conduct an environmental survey of the entire Museum in which are
> housed over 6.1 million specimens relating to human and natural history.
> Applicant Match: 32,669.
>
> Oshkosh Public Museum
> Oshkosh                               24,815
> $21,485 to conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's 300 piece
> furniture collection as well as its 19th century firefighting vehicles.
> An education component to fund $3,330 for the design of a full color
> publication for the general public to improve their awareness of the
> importance of conservation and preservation activities.  Applicant Match:
> 35,660.
>
>

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