Promotion of the Humanities Public Programs

National Endowment For The Humanities

This program supports projects that engage general audiences with ideas from humanities scholarship through in-person exhibitions and historic site interpretations.

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Helps organizations create exhibitions and public programs about history and culture. Projects can include long-term displays, guided tours, and living history events.

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Funding
$454,999 - $4,215,796
Deadline
Rolling
Status
Rolling Intake
Category
Arts, Culture & Creative Industries
Organization
National Endowment For The Humanities

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What Is This Program?

Projects may create permanent exhibitions (on view for at least three years), single-site temporary exhibitions (open to the public for a minimum of two months), or traveling exhibitions that will be available to public audiences in at least two venues in the United States. Projects may also develop long-term interpretive programs for historic sites, houses, neighborhoods, and regions that are intended to be presented to the public for at least three years. Such projects might include living history presentations, guided tours, exhibitions, and public programs.

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This program offers funding up to $4,215,796 (minimum $454,999).

This program accepts applications on a rolling basis.

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