Grant Deadline Extended to January 19, 2024

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The Collections Assessment Grant Program (CAG) provides small and mid-sized museums with a free assessment of their museum or archive collections. Successful grant applicants will receive a half-day site visit from a museum curator or archivist who will examines collections on exhibit, in storage, and policies and procedures related to collection care and management and provide a written report. Every assessment report will include a prioritized list of recommendations for improving the care and management of collections. These recommendations are intended to help institutions decide where to invest limited resources, alert board members to collections care concerns, provide documentation that can support development of a long-range collection/preservation plan, and be used to fundraise for collection projects.

Priority will be given to institutions with budgets under $50,000. Institutions with a budget not exceeding $250,000 are eligible to apply.

Before applying, organizations must contact Kathy Craughwell-Varda, Director of Conservation ConneCTion, at CSL.ConservationConnection@ct.gov to discuss your project idea. We are eager to help you submit a strong application and are available to review draft applications received at least two weeks before the grant deadline. 

Brookside Farm - Museum

CT Valley Tobacco Museum - Archives

Eastern CT - Center for History, Art & Performance - Museum 

East Lyme Historical Society – Archives

Ellington Historical Society – Archives

Falls Village/Canaan Historical Society - Archives

Finnish American Heritage Society - Museum

Franklin Historical Society – Museum & Archives

Friends of Valley Falls – Museum

Godfrey Memorial Library, Middletown – Archives

Griswold Historical Society - Museum

Hamden Historical Society – Archives

Hebron Historical Society – Archives

Hicks-Stearns Museum, Tolland – Museum

Housatonic Community College Foundation, Bridgeport – Museum

Jewish Historical Society of Greater New Haven – Archives

Kent Historical Society - Museum

Killingworth Historical Society – Museum

Madison Historical Society – Museum & Archives

Mansfield Historical Society - Archives

Memorial Military Museum - Archives

Meriden Historical Society - Museum

Middle Haddam Public Library - Archives

Middlebury Historical Society – Museum

Middlefield Historical Society – Archives & Museum

Milford Historical Society – Museum

New Britain Industrial Museum – Archives

New Fairfield Historical Society – Museum

Newtown Historical Society – Museum

Noank Historical Society - Museum

Preston Historical Society - Archives

Putnam Elms, Brooklyn – Museum

Roxbury Museum Commission - Museum

Rocky Hill Historical Society – Museum

Sharon Historical Society – Museum

South Windsor Historical Society - Museum

The Greater Middletown Military Museum – Archives & Museum

The Mather Homestead - Museum

The University of Bridgeport – Archives

Tolland Historical Society - Museum

Totoket Historical Society - Museum

Town of Columbia – Archives

Vintage Radio & Communication Museum - Museum

Waterford Historical Society – Museum

Windham Historical Society - Archives

Wintonbury Historical Society - Archives

Nicole Besseghir, Public Records Analyst, CT State Library

Barbara Bradbury-Pape, Museum Consultant

Moira Conlan,  Library Director and School Archivist at The Frederick Gunn School 

Karen DePauw, Executive Director, Sharon Historical Society

Alyse Hennig, Archives Consultant

Diane Lee, Collections Manager, Fairfield Museum & History Center/CTCo Project Coordinator

Rich Malley, Museum Consultant

Martha Smalley, Archives Consultant