The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS), a federal government grant-making agency, has awarded Cornell's Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art a two-year general operating grant. This is the eighth year that the museum will receive the competitive, hard-to-get grant, which provides $112,500 in funding over two years.
"General Operating Support grants are only given to museums that have the highest approval rating of their peers," said Robert S. Martin, director of IMLS.
Operating support grants are unrestricted; the money may be used for any purpose. Because of that flexibility, many museums seek them. This year more than 800 museums applied for the awards, which were given to about 21 percent (179), only a handful of them university museums.
"We could not be more delighted that IMLS has again recognized the Johnson Museum with this grant," said Frank Robinson, the Richard J. Schwarz Director of the museum. "Receiving this award is like a getting a stamp of approval from our peers. They recognize that we work hard on collecting, presenting and teaching about visual art, to Cornell, to area schools and to the broader community."
Also this year, the National Endowment for the Humanities awarded the Johnson Museum a grant of $250,000, for enhanced cataloging of its Asian collection.
The grant will allow museum staff, working with the Cornell Institute for Digital Collections in the University Library, to provide additional contextual material about individual works of art on the museum's digital database, which is used by faculty, students and visitors to the digital database.
For more information on the Johnson Museum, call 255-6464 or visit its web site at www.museum.cornell.edu.
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