General Announcement

• NEH Adds Second Humanities Infrastructure Grant Program for 2018

  WASHINGTON, D.C. (May 8, 2018) — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) will offer a second round of its new Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grants, with an application deadline of August 1. NEH announced the new grant program, designed… Read More

• Scholarships Available for the 2018 MPMA Conference

  The Scholarship Program, sponsored by the Mountain-Plains Museums Association (MPMA), state associations, industry partners, private donors, and annual auction proceeds, provides financial assistance to those studying and/or working in MPMA's ten-state region so they may attend the annual conference. MPMA… Read More

• New summer program in collections care

  Dear colleague, Knowledge and practice of preventive care are paramount to the preservation of and access to cultural heritage collections. The Center for Collections Care (C3) is poised to meet this training need by providing unparalleled opportunities for hands-on learning and practice… Read More

• AAMG seeks recommendations as we plan for a National Survey

  Hi AAMG Community! AAMG is making plans to conduct a comprehensive survey of the nearly 2,000 academic museums and galleries in the United States. This will be the first time such a survey has been done for the academic museum… Read More

• PRESERVATION ASSISTANCE GRANTS FOR SMALLER INSTITUTIONS: GUIDELINES NOW AVAILABLE!

  The National Endowment for the Humanities’ Division of Preservation and Access has offered Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions since 2000. These grants help smaller and mid-sized cultural heritage institutions such as libraries, museums, historical societies, archival repositories, town and… Read More

• AAMD Announces Fourth Fellowship to Support Provenance Research

  Funded by Samuel H. Kress Foundation 2018 - 2019 The Association of Art Museum Directors (AAMD) is pleased to announce the fourth one- year Samuel H. Kress Foundation Provenance Research Fellowship (AAMD/Kress Fellowship). The Fellowship provides essential funding for a… Read More

• The Project Mars Competition is Open!

  Join NASA’s Orion and Space Launch Systems teams and SciArt Exchange in visualizing humans venturing into deep space, to the Moon and beyond to Mars.  Interested college students and early career professionals worldwide are invited to submit short films and… Read More

• NEH Increases Award Amount for NEH Fellowships

  FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NEH Increases Award Amount for NEH Fellowships Revisions to existing guidelines to accommodate smaller museums and historical societies WASHINGTON, D.C. (February 21, 2018) — The National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) has increased the monthly stipend awarded through its… Read More

• Art Bridges is excited to announce our first open call for applications!

  Art Bridges is a new non-profit foundation focused on sharing outstanding works of American art with those that have limited access to our country’s most meaningful works. We organize exhibitions of American art for display at public and academic art… Read More

• Scholarships and Presenter Grants Available for AAMG-UMAC Annual Conference

  AAMG Students Thanks to a generous grant from the Kress Foundation and conference sponsors, AAMG is pleased to provide ten (10) $500 student scholarships to attend the AAMG Annual Conference in Miami, FL. Interested undergraduate or graduate students should submit… Read More

• At-A-Glance: 2018 AAMG UMAC Annual Conference

  We live in a dangerous, often unstable, and environmentally compromised world. What can academic museums, galleries, and collections do to remedy this situation? If we are dedicated to teaching and training new generations of students, to serving increasingly diverse communities,… Read More

• 2018 AAMC Travel Grant Fellowships

  The AAMC Foundation is pleased to offer Travel Grant Fellowships to its Annual Conference & Meeting. Please note that each Fellowship has a separate application, and applicants may only apply for one Fellowship. Applications for 2018 Travel Grant Fellowships are now open. Applications are due February… Read More