Deadline: 27-Dec-2024
The Ambassadors Fund for Cultural Preservation Grants Program supports the preservation of archaeological sites, historic buildings and monuments, museum collections, and forms of traditional cultural expression, such as indigenous languages and crafts.
Funding Information
- Award Amounts: Awards may range from a minimum of $10,000 to a maximum of $50,000
Duration
- Length of Performance Period: 12 to 60 months
Project Activities
- Appropriate project activities may include the following:
- Anastylosis: Reassembling a site using its original parts.
- Conservation: Addressing damage or deterioration to an object or site.
- Consolidation: Connecting or reconnecting elements of an object or site.
- Documentation: Recording the condition and important features of an object, site, or tradition in analog or digital format.
- Inventory: Listing objects, sites, or traditions by location, feature, age, or other unifying characteristics.
- Preventive Conservation: Addressing conditions that threaten or damage a site, object, collection, or tradition.
- Restoration: Replacing missing elements to recreate the original appearance of an object or site, usually appropriate for fine arts, decorative arts, and historic buildings.
- Stabilization: Reducing the physical disturbance of an object or site.
Eligibility Criteria
- The following entities are eligible to apply:
- Government ministries of culture or similar institutions
- Non-governmental organizations
- Museums
- Educational institutions
- The AFCP will not award grants to individuals, commercial entities, or past award recipients that have not fulfilled the objectives or reporting requirements of previous awards.
Ineligibility Criteria
- AFCP does not support the following activities:
- Preservation or purchase of privately or commercially owned cultural objects, collections, or real property, including those whose transfer from private or commercial to public ownership is envisioned, planned, or in process but not complete at the time of application.
- Preservation of natural heritage (physical, biological, and geological formations, paleontological collections, habitats of threatened species of animals and plants, fossils, etc.) unless the natural heritage has a cultural heritage connection or dimension.
- Preservation of hominid or human remains.
- Preservation of news media (newspapers, newsreels, radio and TV programs, etc.).
- Preservation of published materials available elsewhere (books, periodicals, etc.).
- Development of curricula or educational materials for classroom use.
- Archaeological excavations or exploratory surveys for research purposes.
- Historical research, except in cases where the research is justifiable and integral to the success of the proposed project.
- Acquisition or creation of new exhibits, objects, or collections for new or existing museums.
- Construction of new buildings, building additions, or permanent coverings (over archaeological sites, for example).
- Commissions of new works of art or architecture for commemorative or economic development purposes.
For more information, visit Grants.gov.