The PA Historical and Museum Commission (PHMC) has awarded more than $1.9 million in grants to 120 eligible museums and official county historical societies in the Commonwealth. This is the third year that PHMC has provided funding for museums through the grant program.
The goal of this program is to strengthen PA’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. Award amounts are determined using an equation based on a percentage of the eligible museum’s previous year’s operating budget. The maximum any museum could receive was $65,000 and for historical societies the maxi-mum was $4,000.
“PHMC is pleased to award these gen-eral operating support grants to muse-ums and historical societies, PHMC Executive Director James Vaughan said. “The need for this type of funding is something we’ve heard from Penn-sylvania’s museum community. It’s great that we have a program to meet that need.”
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