Register to attend a FREE webinar and Q&A session for the Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections program on November 8, 2024, at 2:00pm ET.  

Register using this link: Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Webinar. The webinar will be recorded and available online afterward.  

Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Program Information Cultural institutions, including libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations, face a complex challenge: to preserve humanities collections for future generations through environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies to reduce energy consumption and costs as well as to strengthen institutional resiliency in the face of a changing climate.  Cultural institutions can accomplish this work most effectively through managing collections’ environment, including aspects such as temperature, relative humidity, pollutants, and light; providing protective storage enclosures and systems for collections; and safeguarding collections from theft, fire, floods, and other disasters. By using environmentally sustainable methods, institutions reduce reliance on fossil fuels and ensure collections are better protected from current and future disasters.  

There are three levels of funding. Planning (up to $50,000) provides funding for institutions to develop and assess environmentally sustainable preventive care strategies in collection spaces. Implementation Level I (up to $100,000) provides funding for institutions to implement environmentally sustainable preventive care projects that address specific, discrete preservation challenges that have been identified through an assessment. Implementation Level II (up to $350,000) provides funding for institutions to implement environmentally sustainable preventive care projects that address large or multifaceted preservation challenges that have been identified through assessments and planning conducted by a multidisciplinary collaborative professional team appropriate to the goals of the project. 

Applications due: January 10, 2025  

Maximum award amount: 

Planning: $50,000 Implementation Level I: $100,000 Implementation Level II: $350,000 

Organizations located in a non-contiguous state or jurisdiction, including AK, HI, PR, GU, AS, VI, and NMI may request up to an additional $10,000 for Planning, $20,000 for Implementation Level I, and $70,000 for Implementation Level II to cover increased consultants’ travel costs as well as shipping and material costs.

For more information about the Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections Grant: https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/sustaining-cultural-heritage-collections 

Questions? preservation@neh.gov