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GRANTS
Fiscal Year Grant Highlights
From July 1, 2020 to June 30, 2021, the Museum of New Mexico Foundation received 15 grants totaling just over $1 million. In an increasingly competitive environment, every Museum of New Mexico division received at least one award. For example:
A structural assessment of the Edgar Lee Hewett House
supported by a grant from the National Trust for Historic Preservation will allow the New Mexico Museum of Art to determine the building’s structural integrity and create a prioritized list of improvements. The long-term goal is to repurpose this historic building for office space.
The living room inside the Hacienda at Los Luceros Historic Site. Photo © Gene Peach.
Over 200 unique recordings from northern New Mexico
made by John Candelario will be digitized by the New Mexico History Museum’s Fray Angélico Chávez Library. One of only 17 of 100 submitted proposals funded by the Council on Library and Information Resources (a grant program made possible by funding from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation), these unique recordings will be made accessible to researchers and others with an interest in our state’s rich history.
Preserving and stabilizing key structures at Los Luceros
Historic Site. This three-year National Park Service Save America’s Treasures grant will increase public access to the Hacienda, a Greek Revival-style, American plantation-type house and adjacent Storehouse; improve climactic conditions so that objects currently in storage in collections can be displayed; and expand interpretation and exploration of under-represented narratives of diverse cultures represented at Los Luceros.
Bringing education programs to communities across
New Mexico through Project Archaeology, a program of the Office of Archaeological Studies supported by a grant from the Bureau of Land Management. This program links participants to engaging hands-on curriculum centered on human adaptation in our culturally and geographically diverse state. Designed to incorporate standards-based learning goals without restricting teachers’ independent approaches to place-based content, it provides students and teachers with an appreciation for the places they live and tools for further curiosity and exploration.
Thanks to all Foundation institutional funding partners for their generous support of these and all the other projects they help make possible throughout the Museum of New Mexico system.
