HSL Awarded IMLS Inspire! Grant

We are thrilled to announce that we have been awarded an Inspire! Grant for Small Museums from the Institute of Museum and Library Services! The $48,300 award will support our work to catalog and rehouse a portion of our image collections. The project will enable us to gain intellectual and physical control over our collection in preparation for a major expansion into the historic Trudeau Building adjacent to the museum. Over two years, we will create catalog records for photographs, postcards, and photo albums, and implement long-term archival storage. The project tackles a major next step identified in the museum's recently completed Collections Preservation Plan, also funded by a grant from IMLS.

Read the IMLS announcement and see a list of all of the awardees here.

Read our press release here.

Image: HSL Museum Administrator, Chessie Monks-Kelly, examines a recent donation to our collections.