To support the costs of constructing an exhibition facility so that significanthumanities scholarship can reach a broader public audience.

Endowment for the Director of Conservation position at Winterthur to enhance thle museum's extensive programs in conservation.

Winterthur Museum requests a $500,000 NEH Challenge Grant to help establish a $2 million endowment to support the position of Director of Conservation and enhance its mission by creating two vital program expansions: the creation of a new post-graduate fellowship program in conservation and funding for staff development and scientific instrumentation. Winterthur’s decision to endow this position is part of the long-range plan to invest in its intellectual leadership. The position is essential to advancing Winterthur’s role in conservation education and research and to expanding the preservation and interpretation of humanities collections at Winterthur, throughout the United States, and increasingly the world. Endowment of the Director of Conservation will guarantee that Winterthur remains competitive in attracting and maintaining the most highly-qualified leaders in the field while enhancing its fundamental educational and research activities.

To study, in Italy, France, and England, European architecture from the Reniassance to the 19th century in search of the sources American archtitecture.

To continue support of the Winterthur Museum's visiting scholar program enabling 2 research fellowships to be awarded.

To renew support for the fellowship program at the Henry Francis duPont Winterthur Museum for the period 1978-1979. The museum would be able to award two research fellowships for that period.

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The retention of twenty-four employees to work on a website redesign, development of virtual tours, and purchase of hardware and software toward the creation of new digital content.

Winterthur seeks funding from the NEH CARES program to support its website redesign, the development of a virtual tour, and hardware and software to allow staff to create engaging digital content for the public. Over half of the requested funds will support the salaries of staff working on these initiatives.

To plan interpretive programs and exhibits at historic sites in Odessa, Delaware.

To support joint planning by the Winterthur Museum and the Philadelphia Museum of Art for production of a major traveling exhibition of the arts of the Pennsylvania Germans.

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To evaluate arrangement and accessibility of collections as well as visitor mobility, orientation and study opportunities. Two outside experts will report on possibility for rearrangement and change in interpretive emphasis, and an architectural survey will be conducted to assess construction costs for remodeling or adding facilities.

To support production of a publication on Winterthur's collection of early American seating furniture (1630-1730) through an examination of its technology, commerce and culture.

To support planning for the computerized documentation of Winterthur's 70,000 decorative art objects.

To support development of an information retrieval system for the museum's comprehensive collection of decorative and fine arts.

To support the planning of a permanent exhibition that will examine the formal and functional development of American decorative arts from 1640 to 1860.

Consultation for a traveling exhibition and a catalog on the furniture produced in rural southeastern Pennsylvania from about 1720 to 1850 by a variety of cultural societies grouped under the popular but inaccurate term, "Pennsylvania Dutch."

An implementation project to improve the management of environmental conditions for the protection of the museum's collections, which include nearly 90,000 fine and decorative arts objects made or used in America between 1640 and 1860. A new climate control and integrated monitoring system would be installed in the museum, galleries, and research library, improving the collection environments in more energy-efficient ways.

Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library is committed to lifelong learning in the humanities and to the sustainable preservation of the collections that support this mission. To this end, Winterthur requests a $350,000 NEH SCHC implementation grant as part of an $873,338 project to enhance the preservation of the collections and reduce collection-related energy costs. Installation of a new HVAC control system will effectively manage energy and the preservation environment in Winterthur’s three major collection buildings–the Museum, Galleries, and Research Building. These buildings house one of America’s outstanding collections of decorative arts and research material related to material culture as well as extensive programming, exhibitions, conservation and scientific research facilities, and two graduate programs critical to training cultural heritage professionals.

An implementation project to identify, catalog, and photograph 350-500 composite objects containing organic materials, such as bone, horn, ivory, shells, skins, and quill. These objects represent a subset of Winterthur collections, which include nearly 90,000 fine and decorative art objects made or used in America between 1640 and 1860.

The Winterthur Museum, Garden & Library seeks a grant of $268,172 to catalogue its collection of “overlooked organic” objects through physical identification and research. These artifacts, crafted from hard matrices and collagen-based organics like horn, ivories, bone, and skins by artists whose craft traditions are culturally, historically, and artistically important. This project focuses on cataloguing a prioritized group of organic objects with accuracy that meets Winterthur’s high standards, acquiring information through visual analysis, research, scientific analysis, and expert consultation. We will create a position for one full-time cataloguing assistant for two years to help Winterthur’s curatorial and conservation staff identify and continue to make the organics collection publicly accessible online. The cataloguing assistant and staff will research, analyze, and fully record materials and culturally significant information for at least 350 objects, and as many as 500 objects.

To support two fellowships in the humanities.

To support one fellowship each year for two years in the humanities at Winterthur.

The equivalent of one fellowship in the humanities each year for three years.

4 months of stipend support (1 fellowship) per year for three years and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows.

Winterthur is requesting funding for eight months of stipend support per year for three years, and a contribution to defray costs associated with the selection of fellows and publicizing the program.

The equivalent to one fellowship per year for three years.

Winterthur is a center for advanced study in America's artistic, cultural, social, and intellectual history to the early twentieth century. Our ongoing Research Fellowship Program enables scholars to pursue research projects for the duration of one to six months. Past NEH support enabled us to expand this program through the additon of long-term fellowships (six to twelve months) for advanced scholars. Research fellows are drawn to Winterthur by the strength of our research collections, our commitment to scholarly activity, and our facilities for scholars. Former fellows have included leading scholars in American social and cultural history, and publications resulting from their work often have been cited for scholarly excellence. Winterthur now seeks NEH support to continue offering long-term fellowships.

Two four-month fellowships a year for three years at the Winterthur Museum. Grant funds support fellows' stipends and help defray expenses related to the process of selecting fellows.

Winterthur Museum, Garden, & Library is committed to lifelong learning in the humanities, and support from NEH's Fellowship Programs at Independent Research Institutions is a critical component of this endeavor. To this end, Winterthur requests funding for three years of fellowship aid for 2013-16, at eight months of aid per year (two four-month semesters per year). Our research fellows have diverse interests and backgrounds, but are united by their interest in studying American history through material culture. Drawn to Winterthur by the strength of our research collections, our commitment to scholarly activities, and our facilities, former fellows have included leading scholars in American social and cultural history, and publications resulting from their work have been cited for scholarly excellence

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