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August 27, 1999 Eileen Maxwell
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Institute of Museum and Library Services Awards
More than $2 Million to Museums for Critical Conservation
Washington, DC-Beverly Sheppard, Acting Director of the Institute of Museum
and Library Services (IMLS), announced today the 70 recipients of the 1999
Conservation Project Support (CP) matching grants totaling $2,310,000. (See
attached list.) This year IMLS received 228 applications for a wide range
of projects, including conservation training, surveys and treatment.
Museums nationwide, of all disciplines, from art to zoo, are eligible for
funding.
A diversity of projects, from the conservation of the Belles Heures Medieval
manuscript at the Metropolitan Museum in New York, to the protection of rare
seed specimens at the Fairchild Tropical Garden in Florida, to the
preservation of extinct species' bones at the Denver Museum of Natural
History, will be funded. Ms. Sheppard noted, "I am proud of the role IMLS
plays in helping museums across the country care for their collections.
These awards help museums preserve their collections so that future
generations may share the treasures that are our artistic, historic and
scientific heritage. These awards promote long-range planning and
commitment to sound practices in collections care."
In honor of the Millennium, IMLS added an educational component to the
Conservation Project Support program to heighten public understanding of
conservation issues. Among the first ever recipients of this award include
the Chicago Zoological Society for a program to teach high school students
about aquatic ecosystems, and the Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village for
an exhibit that will interpret conservation work to be done on R.
Buckminster Fuller's prototype of the Dymaxion House.
Conservation Project Support grants help museums undertake their most
critical conservation activities. They are awarded through competitive peer
review and require a 100 percent match by the applicant. The next deadline
for Conservation Project Support applications is October 15, 1999.
About the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) -- Created by the
Museum and Library Services Act of 1996, P.L. 104-208. IMLS is an
independent Federal grantmaking agency serving the public by strengthening
museums and libraries. IMLS consists of an Office of the Director, Office
of Museum Services, Office of Library Services, and Office of Research and
Technology. For more information about IMLS contact: Institute of Museum
and Library Services, 1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, N.W., Washington, DC 20506,
(202) 606-8536, or http://www.imls.gov
INSTITUTE OF MUSEUM AND LIBRARY SERVICES
1999 Conservation Project Support Awards
Alaska
Alaska State Museum, Juneau $47,408
To protect a valuable collection of Alaskan Native objects made of ivory,
animal hides, basketry, wood, and stone by purchasing and installing new
steel cabinets in the Museum's collections storage room.
Arkansas
University Museum, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville $22,526
To better protect the Museum's collection of comparative skeletal materials
in its zoology collection by purchasing and installing museum cabinets and
specimen boxes.
California
San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego $20,235
$16,005 to treat the painting, David with the Sword of Goliath, oil on
canvas, by Massimo Stanzione (Neapolitan, 1585-1656). $4,230 for an
education component to develop educational didactic panels describing the
project for the gallery installation, and to write an article for the
Museum's member publication.
San Diego Natural History Museum, San Diego $49,990
To improve the storage environment for the Museum's mammal study skin
collection by purchasing and installing steel cases and archival supplies,
and to hire a collection assistant to implement the transfer of objects to
the new cases.
Colorado
Colorado Historical Society, Denver
$49,972
To better protect the Society's book and manuscript collections by
purchasing and installing new storage units in a newly developed off-site
storage facility.
Denver Museum of Natural History, Denver
$47,645
To improve storage conditions for 570 oversized mammal skulls and skeletons
in the Museum's osteological collection, by purchasing and installing new
storage cabinets, dust covers, environmental monitoring equipment, and
conservation supplies.
Historic Costume and Textile Collection, Fort Collins $31,305
To protect the Museum's collections of garments, flat textiles, and related
accessories by purchasing and installing new storage cabinets.
Connecticut
Connecticut Historical Society, Hartford
$49,946
To treat 21 pre-1850 portraits, including works by Joseph Steward, Henry
Cheever Pratt, Jared B. Flagg, Henry Inman, Henry Bryant, and J.H. Shegogue.
Cheney Homestead, Manchester $5,000
To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Homestead's collection of
works of art on paper and paintings.
Peabody Museum of Natural History, Yale University, New Haven $49,955
To provide a better environment for the Museum's significant collection of
marine gastropods, echinoderms and soft corals, including starfish, sea
urchins, and sea fans, by purchasing and installing new storage cabinets and
acid-free trays.
Delaware
Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village, Dover $11,831
To conduct an environmental survey of the Museum's main building, housing
the majority of the Museum's collections which reflect agricultural history
and rural life on the Delmarva Peninsula from the 18th to 20th centuries.
Winterthur Museum, Garden and Library, Winterthur $50,000
To treat 898 decorative arts objects at Winterthur's Historic Houses of
Odessa including a John Janvier desk and bookcase, cast iron fire backs, and
a Mary Jane Moore Eastburn pieced starburst quilt (1837).
Florida
Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami
$49,393
To develop palm seed storage methods and seed banks to conserve and
safeguard the Garden's unique and important collection of palms.
Hawaii
Honolulu Zoo, Honolulu $47,241
To investigate disruptive and stress-inducing stimulation in captive
environments for endemic Hawaiian honey-creepers (Apapane, Amakihi, and
I'iwi) that potentially disrupts reproduction and increases disease
susceptibility.
Illinois
Chicago Zoological Society, Chicago
$49,243
$36,121 to develop a practical method for maintaining and conserving healthy
aquatic animals in zoo collections that will result in the development of an
optimized design for a filtration component. $9,993 for an education
component to develop a program for high-school students to learn about
aquatic ecosystems.
Oriental Institute Museum, Chicago
$50,000
To better protect a portion of the Museum's Persian object collection by
purchasing and installing museum-quality storage cabinets, Ethofoam and
archival packing materials.
Iowa
Putnam Museum of History and Natural Science, Davenport $9,000
To conduct an environmental survey of the Museum facility.
Des Moines Art Center, Des Moines
$21,865
To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's 3,000-piece works of
art on paper collection.
Kansas
Kansas Museum of History, Topeka
$28,436
To treat four important Civil War flags from the First and Second Kansas
Colored Infantries.
Kentucky
Locust Grove Historic Home, Louisville $6,885
To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's collections of
furniture and textiles.
Maine
L.C. Bates Museum, Hinckley $12,085
$6,931 to conduct a detailed condition survey of mounted fauna specimens in
the Museum's collection and to survey existing environmental conditions in
cased exhibited objects. $5,154 for an education component that will teach
students and the general public about the safety and conservation issues
involved in handling and preserving mounted animal and bird specimens.
Portland Museum of Art, Portland
$15,951
To treat seven pieces of early American furniture from the Museum's
permanent collection, including an important mahogany secretary (circa 1800)
attributed to the Radford brothers of Boston, and a wall clock (circa
1813-1815) in the style of Boston's Willard Clock Shop.
Maryland
Baltimore Museum of Art, Baltimore
$37,689
To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's collection of 3,490
objects in its Asian, Native American, Pre-Columbian, and Oceanic
collections.
Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore $42,000
To treat and rehouse major sections of two ancient Egyptian papyrus rolls:
six fragments from a work known as The Book of the Fayum (circa 1st century
BC) and one section from an important funerary text (from the Late Period of
ancient Egypt after 600 BC).
Massachusetts
Mead Art Museum, Amherst
$50,000
To protect and store the Museum's 9,000-piece collection of works on paper
by purchasing and installing new archival storage systems.
Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology, Cambridge $50,000
To improve the storage conditions for 400-450 African objects including wood
masks and figurines, ivory carvings, and headdresses and musical
instruments, by purchasing archival quality materials such as containers for
fragile objects. Also, to implement an expanded deinfestation program for
affected wood items by purchasing supplies and equipment.
Pilgrim Monument and Provincetown Museum, Provincetown $10,000
To protect the Museum's hanging art collection, produced by noted
Provincetown artists, including Marcus Waterman, by purchasing and
installing new lateral art storage panels.
Gore Place, Waltham
$11,544
To stabilize the cupola on the 1806 Gore Place mansion house and to halt
deterioration caused by water leaks in connecting parts of the building.
Davis Museum and Cultural Center, Wellesley $50,000
To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's collection of 4,100
works of art on paper representing the 14th through the 20th centuries.
Williams College Museum of Art, Williamstown $7,500
To treat 25 watercolor and ink paintings on paper from the 17th to mid-19th
centuries, representing the Indian Mughal and Rajput period styles.
Michigan
Henry Ford Museum & Greenfield Village, Dearborn $60,000
$50,000 to treat about 2,000 individual parts of R. Buckminster Fuller's
prototype for the Dymaxion House. $10,000 for an education component that
will include a temporary exhibition and continuing website that will
interpret the conservation work done on the building.
Detroit Institute of Arts, Detroit
$50,000
To improve storage for the Museum's collection of European sculpture and
decorative arts objects ranging in date from the early Christian period to
circa 1910, by purchasing powder-coated, climate controlled storage
cabinets.
Michigan State University Museum, East Lansing $8,888
To assist with the storage and protection of the Museum's 1,974 mostly 19th
century ornithology specimens, by purchasing archival materials, supplies,
and cabinets.
Public Museum of Grand Rapids, Grand Rapids $49,913
To improve the storage of the Museum's ethnographic and Native American
collections, including approximately 8,000 local and international objects
of historical, archeological and cultural importance, by purchasing and
installing new storage cabinets.
Minnesota
Itasca County Historical Society, Grand Rapids $2,284
To conduct an environmental survey of the Museum's two facilities to record
seasonal and daily temperature and humidity fluctuations.
Minneapolis Institute of Arts, Minneapolis
$50,000
To conduct a detailed condition survey of over 3,500 museum objects
including prints, tapestries, paintings, furniture, ethnographic objects,
and sculptures.
Science Museum of Minnesota, St. Paul $59,933
$50,000 to protect the Museum's collections of bird study skins and
freshwater and marine mollusks which document the biodiversity of endangered
habitats and species, by purchasing and installing new storage cabinets.
$9,993 for an education component that includes purchase of video equipment
for a visible conservation lab to allow visitors to view conservation
activities relating to the Museum's collection of study skins and mollusks.
Nebraska
Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History, Hastings $5,264
To conduct a general conservation survey of the Museum's collections.
New Hampshire
Currier Gallery of Art, Manchester
$20,840
To treat a large Franco-Flemish tapestry entitled Visit of the Gypsies, one
of the finest and best examples of early 16th century genre tapestries in
America.
Manchester Historic Association, Manchester $11,275
To provide a new storage environment for the Museum's 159 framed works of
art, many of which depict the history of Manchester and area commerce, by
purchasing and installing compact storage racks.
New Jersey
Newark Museum, Newark $19,867
To conduct a detailed condition survey of over 11,000 photographs, including
the works of Berenice Abbott, whose Changing New York series captured images
of a diverse New York City in the early 1900's, as well as rare early
Tibetan and Japanese archival photographs.
New York
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn
$50,000
To implement a two-year advanced internship in object conservation, focusing
on stabilizing and conserving 155 Egyptian objects in preparation for their
reinstallation in the Museum's Egyptian Middle Kingdom and Early 18th
Dynasty galleries.
El Museo Del Barrio, New York $4,715
To protect 1,300 fine arts posters in the Museum's collection by prominent
Puerto Rican graphic artists, including Lorenzo Homar and Carlos Raquel
Rivera, by purchasing storage materials and a metal flat file cabinet.
Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York $28,299
To treat a portion of the Belles Heures manuscript, one of the most
extraordinary examples of Medieval art in existence.
Morris-Jumel Mansion, New York $6,411
To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's collections of works
on paper, furniture, and metalwork.
National Academy of Design, New York $43,000
To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Academy's collection of 1,500
20th century paintings.
Shaker Museum and Library, Old Chatham $33,403
To improve the storage environment for 950 articles of Shaker textiles and
costumes and 500 textile-related implements and tools by purchasing and
installing museum-quality storage cabinets.
Memorial Art Gallery of the University of Rochester, Rochester $17,800
To treat a 16th century oil on panel by an anonymous Italian artist; a 17th
century still life by Jan Davidz De Heem; a 1916 oil by Lionel Feininger; a
1921 oil by American artist Fritz Trautman; a circa 1800 Chinese
reverse-glass painting and its frame; and frames for an early 19th century
portrait by Sir Thomas Lawrence and an early 20th century oil by George
Bellows.
Rochester Museum and Science Center, Rochester $49,837
To conduct an environmental survey and building feasibility study of the
primary collections storage facility.
Lyndhurst, Tarrytown
$50,000
To stabilize overall environmental conditions by installing 52 pairs of
operable and 12 fixed shutters and related hardware, which will block solar
heat and harmful ultra-violet light exposure to the exterior façade at
Lyndhurst, and to implement an environmental monitoring program.
North Carolina
North Carolina Botanical Garden, Chapel Hill $39,250
To conduct a detailed condition survey of the 125-acre William Lanier Hunt
Arboretum, an integral collection of the North Carolina Botanical Garden, to
identify conservation problems and priorities for collection stabilization
and conservation.
Ohio
Cincinnati Zoo and Botanical Garden, Cincinnati $46,131
To study and compare immune cell function among four rhinoceros species in
an effort to identify potential immune system deficiencies in the black
rhinoceros that might help explain its high mortality rate in captivity.
Toledo Zoological Gardens, Toledo
$38,489
To conduct research to identify environmental conditions of temperature and
relative humidity that will increase survivorship of the Federally-
endangered Karner blue butterfly in captivity.
Oregon
Berry Botanic Garden, Portland $14,581
$10,531 to conduct a detailed condition survey of the Garden's native
plants. $4,050 for an education component that will include using temporary
exhibits, handouts and brochures to explain to the public how gardens carry
out conservation assessment activities.
Pennsylvania
Mercer Museum, Doylestown
$50,000
To improve storage conditions for the Museum's textile collection,
representative of 18th, 19th and 20th century textile traditions in
southeastern Pennsylvania and the Delaware Valley, by purchasing and
installing new museum-quality storage furniture.
Pennsbury Manor, Morrisville $15,553
To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Manor's collection of
historical artifacts.
Fabric Workshop and Museum, Philadelphia
$41,792
To improve the storage conditions of the Museum's Photo Archive Collection,
containing 32,200 photographic images, many documenting the museum's
collection including the creative process, by purchasing storage materials
and supplies.
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
$35,000
To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's East Asian artifact
collection.
Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh $50,000
To survey, treat, and rehouse a large and unique collection of original
video and audio tapes made by Andy Warhol.
Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania, Pittsburgh $17,154
To better protect the Museum's collection of textiles, toys, and
archaeological materials, including a broad range of historic artifacts,
from Mr. Rogers' sweater to metallic toy trains from the 1900s, by
purchasing and installing museum cabinets and shelving.
Chester County Historical Society, West Chester $28,392
To conserve 2,391 glass-plate negatives from Gilbert Cope, a founder of the
Society.
Tennessee
Knoxville Zoological Gardens, Knoxville $5,188
To enhance the Zoo's Red Panda SSP Keeper Training Workshop by incorporating
two new learning units (cub care and operant conditioning) that use learning
strategies and tools that will lead to the appropriate application of
techniques.
Utah
Red Butte Garden & Arboretum, Salt Lake City $49,820
To develop a new Plant Records Program to document all plant material at the
Garden, emphasizing taxa in the formal collections. Also, an AutoCAD base
map of the Garden will be created.
Vermont
Shelburne Farms, Shelburne
$50,000
To conduct a general conservation survey of the Museum's non-living and
living historic resources.
Shelburne Museum, Shelburne $50,000
To improve storage conditions for the Museum's collection, including rare
books, textile samplers, and painted American furniture, by purchasing and
installing new storage shelves, textile storage racks, and a steel mezzanine
in a new collections preservation facility.
Wisconsin
Old World Wisconsin, Eagle
$47,211
To conduct an environmental survey of the Museum's historic structures.
Chippewa Valley Museum, Eau Claire $11,060
To conduct a detailed condition survey of the Museum's collections of
historic agricultural machinery artifacts made of or containing natural or
synthetic rubber.
Elvehjem Museum of Art, Madison $16,426
To conduct a detailed condition survey of 198 paintings from the Museum's
permanent collection.
Oshkosh Public Museum, Oshkosh $39,539
To upgrade storage conditions for the Museum's 680-piece military
collection, including uniforms, flags, headgear, ribbons and medals, edged
weapons, equipment, and personal items, by purchasing and installing new
storage cabinets.
Paine Art Center and Arboretum, Oshkosh $58,040
$50,000 to improve the storage environment for the Center's collection,
including paintings, works on paper, textiles, metals, glass, ceramics, and
archival materials, by purchasing storage equipment and supplies for a new
collections storage facility. Also, the project will train staff in
rehousing and basic collections care techniques. $8,040 for an education
component that will include a video and exhibition that will document the
rehousing/training project, and interpret and promote the importance and
universal relevance of museum conservation.
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