PA Historical & Museum Commission Awards Nearly $4 Million in Grants Including 7 in Berks

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The Pennsylvania Historical & Museum Commission (PHMC) has awarded nearly $4 million in Cultural and Historical Support Grants to 173 eligible museums and official county historical societies from 59 Pennsylvania counties. This is an increase over previous years by $2 million to better benefit Pennsylvania’s historical resources.

The goal of the Cultural and Historical Support Grant program is to strengthen Pennsylvania’s museum community by supporting the general operations of eligible museums and official county historical societies that are not supported by other state agency funding programs. An eligible museum must have an annual operating budget exceeding $100,000 (excluding capital and in-kind services) and at least one full-time professional staff person (or approved equivalent).

Grants are awarded on a formula based on a percentage of the organization’s annual operating budget with a maximum grant of $62,000 and a minimum grant of $4,000. Allocated funding for the program remained level with $3,800,000 in grant awards.

The following is a list of Cultural and Historical Support Grant awards by county:

Adams

• Adams County Historical Society – $20,200
• Gettysburg Foundation – $36,200

Allegheny

• Carnegie Science Center – $62,000
• Carnegie Museum of Natural History – $62,000
• Children’s Museum of Pittsburgh – $62,000
• Frick Art & Historical Center – $62,000
• Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh – $13,500
• Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania (DBA Senator John Heinz History Center) – $62,000
• Rivers of Steel Heritage Corporation – $62,000
• Soldiers & Sailors Memorial Hall & Museum – $58,500
• Holocaust Center of Pittsburgh – $13,500

Armstrong

• Armstrong County Historical Museum & Genealogical Society – $8,000

Beaver

• Beaver County Historical Research & Landmarks Foundation – $8,000

Bedford

• Old Bedford Village Inc. – $8,700

Berks

• Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles – $23,400
• Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust – $32,500
• Foundation for the Reading Public Museum – $62,000
• General Carl Spaatz Regional USAAC Museum – $4,000
• Hawk Mountain Sanctuary – $62,000
• Historical Society of Berks County – $12,600
• Mid Atlantic Air Museum – $14,200

Blair

• Blair County Historical Society – $8,000
• Railroaders Memorial Museum – $19,600

Bradford

• Bradford County Historical Society – $8,000

Bucks

• Bucks County Children’s Museum – $10,800
• Bucks County Historical Society (Mercer Museum) – $62,000
• New Hope Historical Society – $5,200
• Pearl S. Buck International – $33,400
• The TileWorks of Bucks County – $20,000
• Trustees of the Mercer Fonthill Museum – $10,000

Butler

• Butler County Historical Society – $8,000
• Historic Harmony Inc. – $5,100

Cambria

• Cambria County Historical Society – $8,000
• Johnstown Area Heritage Association – $22,800

Cameron

• Cameron County Historical Society – $8,000

Centre

• Centre County Historical Society – $8,000
• Discovery Space of Central PA – $28,800

Chester

• American Helicopter Museum & Education Center – $10,000
• Chester County History Center – $28,400
• Graystone Society Inc. – $13,100
• Historic Sugartown Inc – $7,500
• Historic Yellow Springs – $27,000
• Oxford Area Historical Association – $4,000
• Wharton Esherick Museum – $14,000

Clearfield

• Clearfield County Historical Society – $8,000

Clinton

• Clinton County Historical Society – $8,000

Columbia

• Berwick Historical Society – $8,000
• The Children’s Museum Inc. – $4,500

Crawford

• Crawford County Historical Society – $8,000

Cumberland

• Cumberland County Historical Society and Hamilton Library Association – $20,000
• Shippensburg Historical Society, Inc – $4,000

Dauphin

• AACA Museum Inc. – $37,000
• Hershey History Center – $5,200
• Historical Society of Dauphin County – $8,000
• The Hershey Story Museum – $53,600
• The National Civil War Museum – $26,500
• Whitaker Center for Science and the Arts – $62,000

Delaware

• Central Pennsylvania Farmstead – $8,000
• Delaware County Historical Society – $8,000
• Nicholas Newlin Foundation – $22,000

Elk

• Elk County Historical Society – $8,000

Erie

• Erie County Historical Society dba Hagen History Center – $32,000
• expERIEnce Children’s Museum – $25,000
• Presque Isle Light Station – $5,100

Fayette

• Fallingwater/WPC – $62,000
• Fayette County Historical Society – $8,000

Franklin

• Franklin County Historical Society – Kittochtinny – $8,000
• Renfrew Museum and Park – $8,000
• The Conococheague Institute for the Study of Cultural Heritage – $5,500

Fulton

• Fulton County Historical Society – $8,000

Greene

• Greene County Historical Society – $8,000 

Huntingdon

• Huntingdon County Historical Society – $8,000
• Isett Acres Museum Foundation – $7,500
• Willam E. Swigart Jr. Automobile Museum – $4,000

Indiana

• Historical & Genealogical Society of Indiana County – $8,000

Jefferson

• Jefferson County Historical Society – $8,000
• Punxsutawney Weather Discovery Center – $4,000

Juniata

• Juniata County Historical Society – $8,000

Lackawanna

• Everheart Museum of Natural History, Science and Art – $16,700
• Lackawanna Historical Society – $8,000

Lancaster

• Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society dba Mennonite Life – $21,300
• Lancaster Science Factory – $20,000
• LancasterHistory dba LancasterHistory.org – $52,800
• National Watch and Clock Museum – $40,600
• North Museum of Nature and Science – $27,600
• Rock Ford Foundation – $10,000

Lawrence

• Lawrence County Historical Society – $8,000

Lebanon

• Historic Schaefferstown, Inc – $8,000

Lehigh

• Lehigh County Historical Society Inc. – $16,000
• The Da Vinci Discovery Center of Science and Technology, Inc. – $62,000

Luzerne

• Wyoming Historical & Geological Society (DBA Luzerne County Historical Society) – $8,000

Lycoming

• Lycoming County Historical Society – $8,000
• World of Little League Museum – Little League Baseball and Softball – $5,200

McKean

• Eldred World War II Museum – $4,000
• McKean County Historical Society – $8,000

Mercer

• Mercer County Historical Society – $8,000

Mifflin

• Mifflin County Historical Society – $8,000

Monroe

• Monroe County Historical Association – $8,000
• Quiet Valley Living Historical Farm – $5,000

Montgomery

• Historic Trappe – $9,400
• Historical Society of Montgomery County – $8,000
• Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania – $8,500
• Morgan Log House Historical Society – $4,000
• National Audubon Society (Audubon Pennsylvania) – $21,200
• Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center – $14,500

Northampton

• Delaware & Lehigh National Heritage Corridor – $12,300
• Historic Bethlehem Museums & Sites – $45,700
• Moravian Historical Society – $6,100
• National Museum of Industrial History – $20,000
• Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society – $15,700

Northumberland

• Northampton County Historical and Genealogical Society – $15,700
• Northumberland County Historical Society – $8,000

Perry

• Historical Society of Perry County – $8,000

Philadelphia

• American Philosophical Society – $53,100
• American Swedish Historical Museum – $20,400
• Arch Street Meeting House Preservation Trust – $16,300
• Carpenter’s Company of The City and County of Philadelphia – $9,800
• Christ Church Preservation Trust – $14,700
• Cliveden of the National Trust Inc. – $20,400
• Eastern State Penitentiary Historic Site – $53,100
• Ebenezer Maxwell Mansion Inc. – $6,500
• Friends of Laurel Hill & West Laurel Hill Cemeteries – $53,100
• Fund for Girard College – $8,100
• Glen Foerd Conservation Corporation – $53,100
• Historic Fair Hill – $4,000
• Historic Germantown – $6,500
• Historic RittenhouseTown – $20,400
• Historical Society of Pennsylvania – $53,100
• Independence Seaport Museum – $53,100
• Japan America Society of Greater Philadelphia – $37,700
• John Bartman Association – $53,100
• Lutheran Archives Center at Philadelphia – $53,100
• Museum of the American Revolution – $53,100
• Naomi Wood Trust – $9,200
• National Constitution Center – $53,100
• National Liberty Museum – $53,100
• Penn Museum – $53,100
• Philadelphia Fire Department Historical Corporation/Fireman’s Hall Museum – $4,000
• Philadelphia Society for the Preservation of Landmarks – $53,100
• Please Touch Museum – $53,100
• Rosenbach Museum and Library – $53,100
• Science History Institute – $53,100
• Stenton, NSCDA/PA – $12,200
• The Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University – $53,100
• The Athenaeum of Philadelphia – $39,200
• The Carpenters’ Company of the City & County of Philadelphia – $9,800
• The College of Physicians of Philadelphia – $53,100
• The Franklin Institute – $53,100
• The Library Company of Philadelphia – $53,100
• The Weitzman National Museum of American Jewish History – $53,100
• The Woodlands Trust for Historic Preservation – $31,000
• Wagner Free Institute of Science – $40,800
• Wyck Association – $8,100

Pike

• Pike County Historical Society and Museum – $8,000

Schuylkill

• Historical Society of Schuylkill County – $8,000

Somerset

• Somerset Historical Center – $8,000

Susquehanna

• Susquehanna County Historical Society – $8,000

Tioga

• Tioga County Historical Society – $8,000

Union

• Lewisburg Children’s Museum – $6,700
• Union County Historical Society – $8,000

Venango 

• Oil Region Music Preservation Museum – $4,000
• Venango County Historical Society – $8,000

Warren

• Warren County Historical Society – $8,000

Washington

• Historical Society of Western Pennsylvania dba Senator John Heinz History Center – $14,200
• Pennsylvania Trolley Museum – $26,800
• The National Duncan Glass Society – $4,000
• Washington County Historical Society, Inc. – $8,000 

Wayne

• Wayne County Historical Society – $8,000

Westmoreland

• Fort Ligonier Association – $36,000
• Ligonier Valley Historical Society – $7,200
• West Overton Village and Museum – $11,400
• Westmoreland County Historical Society – 8,000

Wyoming

• Wyoming County Historical Society – $8,000

York

• Susquehanna Heritage Corporation – $4,000
• The Spring Grove Area Historical Preservation Society – $4,000

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