Research Spotlight: Museum Awarded NEH Grant             

Cleveland Museum of Natural History 

This month, the Cleveland Museum of Natural History was awarded a $350,000 grant from the National Endowment for Humanities (NEH) to support the sustainable preservation of the Museum’s critical humanities collection, including anthropology, fine arts, rare books collections, and archives. The project, titled “Ensuring the Sustainable Preservation of the Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s Humanities Collection,” will result in more stable climate control while increasing energy efficiency and ultimately advancing the Museum's environmental sustainability goals. This is the largest NEH grant the Museum has ever received, and the first in nearly 40 years since receiving the previous in 1986.  

Spearheading the project is Dr. Meghan Strong, Director of Collections, who manages the Museum's collections and collections specialists and has worked on international cultural heritage focusing on collections care, curation, and materials science. “The goal of this project is to care for our humanities collection to the highest professional standards, while at the same time ensuring that our environmental systems have as minimal impact as possible on the planet,” said Dr. Strong. 

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