Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections

Sustaining Cultural Heritage Collections (SCHC) helps cultural institutions meet the complex challenge of preserving large and diverse holdings of humanities materials for future generations by supporting sustainable conservation measures that mitigate deterioration, prolong the useful life of collections,

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and support institutional resilience:
the ability to anticipate and respond to natural and man-made disasters.

Libraries, archives, museums, and historical organizations across the country face an enormous challenge:
to preserve collections that facilitate research, strengthen teaching, and provide opportunities for life-long learning in the humanities.

Ensuring the preservation of books and manuscripts, photographs, sound recordings and moving images, archaeological and ethnographic artifacts, art, and historical objects requires institutions to implement measures that slow deterioration and prevent catastrophic loss from natural or man-made emergencies.

This work is best accomplished through preventive conservation, which encompasses managing relative humidity, temperature, light, and pollutants in collection spaces; providing protective storage enclosures and systems for collections; and safeguarding collections from theft, fire, floods, and other disasters.

As museums, libraries, archives, and other collecting institutions strive to be effective stewards of humanities collections, they must find ways to implement preventive conservation measures that are sustainable.

This program therefore helps cultural repositories plan and implement preservation strategies that pragmatically balance effectiveness, cost, and environmental impact.

Sustainable approaches to preservation can contribute to an institution’s financial health, reduce its use of fossil fuels, and benefit its green initiatives, while ensuring that collections are well cared for and available for use in humanities programming, education, and research.

Sustainable preventive conservation measures may also aim to prepare and plan for, absorb, respond to, recover from, and more successfully protect collections in the event of natural or man-made disasters.

All applicants, whether applying for planning or implementation projects, must clearly address sustainable preventive conservation strategies in their application narratives.

Sustainable preservation strategies can take many forms, depending on the nature of an institution and its collections, its building, and the local climate.

However, interdisciplinary collaboration during planning and implementation of these strategies is essential.

In SCHC projects, such teams typically consist of consultants and members of the institution’s staff and can include architects, building engineers, conservation scientists, conservators, curators, archivists, and facilities managers, among others.

Related Programs

Promotion of the Humanities_Division of Preservation and Access

National Endowment For The Humanities


Agency: National Endowment for the Humanities

Office: None

Estimated Funding: Not Available


Who's Eligible


Relevant Nonprofit Program Categories





Obtain Full Opportunity Text:
https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/sustaining-cultural-heritage-collections

Additional Information of Eligibility:
Not Available

Full Opportunity Web Address:
https://www.neh.gov/grants/preservation/sustaining-cultural-heritage-collections

Contact:
Sustaining Cultural Heritage CollectionsDivision of Preservation and AccessNational Endowment for the Humanities400 Seventh Street, SW Washington, DC 20506202-606-8570 or preservation@neh.govpreservation@neh.gov

Agency Email Description:
preservation@neh.gov

Agency Email:
preservation@neh.gov

Date Posted:
2016-10-13

Application Due Date:
2016-12-13

Archive Date:
2017-04-19


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