Funded Projects Query Form
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Improvements to the Ioway Farm site, programs on Ioway culture, a pilot class, activities exploring the immigrant experiences, and Juneteenth event planning.

The proposed project rebuilds staff capacity at two critical museum sites, so Living History Farms can resume providing hands-on experiences for Iowa schoolchildren and visitors from around the world to engage in exploration of Iowa's rural history and the contributions of agriculture to our nation's development. These sites tie directly to NEH's A More Perfect Union priority, one addressing the experience of Native Americans and the other, America's place in the world as a refuge for immigrants. The project also supports the acquisition of materials, the hiring of a consultant and development of interpretive manuals to help tell those stories. Many of these activities are focused on the 40th anniversary of LHF’s Ioway Farm site. The project also includes reinstatement of Program Registrar and Collections Curator positions, along with materials and consultant assistance to support the work of these positions.

Project fields:
Immigration History; Native American Studies; U.S. History

Program:
ARP-Organizations (Public-related)

Division:
Agency-wide Projects

Totals:
$193,402 (approved)
$193,402 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/2021 – 9/30/2022

The purchase and installation of ultraviolet light filters for three buildings and environmental monitoring equipment for 20 buildings at Living History Farms, a 500-acre outdoor history museum that includes three farm sites, a country homestead, and the 1876-era town of Walnut Hill.

The proposed project involves introduction of window film to filter out ultraviolet rays that can damage collections artifacts in the three buildings that house the most valuable and difficult-to-replace Living History Farms (LHF) collections. The project also involves introduction of monitoring equipment to assist LHF staff in keeping track of environmental conditions in the 20 buildings spread across 500 acres where collections are displayed and/or stored, in order to prevent deterioration of artifacts caused by conditions such as excessive or inadequate humidity.

Project fields:
Cultural History; Public History

Program:
Preservation Assistance Grants

Division:
Preservation and Access

Totals:
$10,000 (approved)
$10,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
9/1/2022 – 8/31/2023

The museum requests a $1,000 grant to help support the cost of public programming when it hosts the traveling exhibition.

Project fields:

Program:
NEH on the Road

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$1,000 (approved)
$1,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2015 – 9/30/2015

The museum requests a $1,000 grant to help support the cost of public humanities programming when hosts the traveling exhibition.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
NEH on the Road

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$1,000 (approved)
$1,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/2014 – 9/30/2014

Ancillary public humanities programs to accompany the NEH on the Road: Farm Life traveling exhibition.

Request is for funds to support humanities programs that will supplement the exhibition.

Project fields:
Rural Studies

Program:
NEH on the Road

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$1,000 (approved)
$1,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
6/1/2011 – 8/31/2011

To plan an agricultural exposition dealing with the future of farming and rural life in the Midwest.

Project fields:
History, General

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$15,844 (approved)
$15,844 (awarded)

Grant period:
7/1/1979 – 6/30/1980

To determine the feasibility of establishing a teenage docent program and expanding youth informal education programs.

Project fields:
History, General

Program:
Younger Scholars, 2/76 - 2/85

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$2,500 (approved)
$2,500 (awarded)

Grant period:
5/1/1978 – 9/30/1979

No project description available

Project fields:

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$119,891 (approved)
$119,891 (awarded)

Grant period:
3/1/1978 – 5/31/1980

To implement an interpretive program that's historically authentic and attractively designed for people of different ages and backgrounds around three operating farms, a county seat year circa 1870, and an outdoor crop museum. To engage consultants to aid in historical research on farming and farm life (cultural, social and religious), in the Midwest from 1840 to the present, including the variability that existed.

Project fields:
History, General

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$33,010 (approved)
$33,010 (awarded)

Grant period:
3/1/1977 – 2/28/1978

No project description available

Project fields:

Program:
Museum Challenge Grants

Division:
Challenge Programs

Totals (matching):
$125,000 (approved)
$125,000 (offered)
$125,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
10/1/1976 – 6/30/1980

To plan a humanistic interpretation guide for the Living History farms.

Project fields:
Interdisciplinary Studies, General

Program:
Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Division:
Public Programs

Totals:
$10,000 (approved)
$10,000 (awarded)

Grant period:
12/1/1975 – 6/30/1976