The Museum Program provides Technical Assistance support to all eligible New York State museums and museum service organizations through the Upstate History Alliance, which manages Grants for Museum Advancement: Get Ready, Get Set, Go! Support is available for a range of services.

Get Ready! Covers costs of a consultant experienced in museum planning to prepare an organization for the development of a strategic or long-range plan.

Get Set! grants may be used to develop a strategic or long-range plan, or work with a consultant on project or program advisement or evaluation. Support is available up to $3000.

Go! grants support museum staff, board and/or volunteers to travel to other museums within New York State or attend professional conferences or workshops, both in and out-of-state.   Support is available up to $750.

Any museum, whether or not it has been previously funded by the Program, may receive support through this program. Please note that requests to this program should not duplicate a request to the Museum Program.

For further details, including guidelines and an application, please contact:

Upstate History Alliance
Grants for Museum Advancement: Get Ready, Get Set, Go!
11 Ford Avenue
Oneonta, NY 13820
1-800 895-1648
e-mail: info@upstatehistory.org
www.upstatehistory.org

Conservation Treatment

Grants for conservation treatment are available through a program administered by the Lower Hudson Conference. The Conservation Treatment Grant Program offers support for treatment procedures to aid in stabilizing and preserving objects in museum collections. Support may be provided for treatment of paintings, works on paper (i.e. maps, prints, posters), textiles, furniture, sculpture, and ethnographic, historical, and decorative objects. The work must be performed under the direction of a professional conservator. Support is available up to $7500.

Any non-profit museum or cultural organization is eligible to apply, provided the organization does not have in-house conservation staff with expertise in the area for which support is requested. Objects to be treated must be owned by the applicant institution.

For further details, including guidelines and an application, please contact:

Conservation Treatment Grant Program
Greater Hudson Heritage Network
2199 Saw Mill River Road
Elmsford, NY 10523
(914) 592-6726
E-mail: info@greaterhudson.org
www.greaterhudson.org

Support for the conservation and preservation of library materials (including the reformatting of photographs) is available through the New York State Program for the Conservation and Preservation of Library Research Materials.
www.nysl.nysed.gov/libdev/cp