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The Institute of Museum & Library Services (IMLS) offers a number of grants that public gardens are eligible to apply for. These programs are the most commonly used for GIS projects, and offer full support for the completion of a well planned project.
Conservation Project Support
The Conservation Project Support program awards grants to help museums identify conservation needs and priorities, and perform activities to ensure the safekeeping of their collections.
Conservation Project Support grants help museums develop and implement a logical, institution-wide approach to caring for their living and material collections. Applicants should apply for the project that meets one of the institution’s highest conservation needs. All applications must demonstrate that the primary goal of the project is conservation care, and not collection management or maintenance.
Grants are available for many types of conservation activities, including surveys (general, detailed condition, or environmental); training; treatment; and environmental improvements.
Program Information | Grant Application Guidelines
Museums for America
Museums for America is the Institute’s largest grant program for museums, supporting projects and ongoing activities that build museums’ capacity to serve their communities.
Museums for America grants strengthen a museum’s ability to serve the public more effectively by supporting high-priority activities that advance the institution’s mission and strategic goals. Museums for America grants are designed to be flexible: funds can be used for a wide variety of projects, including ongoing museum activities, research and other behind-the-scenes activities, planning, new programs, purchase of equipment or services, and activities that will support the efforts of museums to upgrade and integrate new technologies.
IMLS also welcomes proposals that promote the skills necessary to develop 21st century communities, citizens, and workers, and that encourage broad community access and participation.
Grants are awarded in the following categories:
- Engaging Communities (Education, Exhibitions, Interpretation, and Inclusive Participation): Support projects that represent a broad range of educational activities through which museums share collections, content, and knowledge to support learning.
- Building Institutional Capacity (Management, Policy, and Training): Support projects that serve to improve the infrastructure of museums to better serve their communities.
- Collections Stewardship: Support projects that museums undertake to maintain and improve the management of museum collections in order to fulfill a museum’s public service mission.
Program Information | Grant Application Guidelines
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