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Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (2023)

Agency: Institute of Museum and Library Services

Assistance Listings
  • 45.301 -- Museums for America

Closed opportunityLast Updated: May 13, 2026

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Inspire! Grants for Small Museums is a special initiative of the Museums for America program. It is designed to support small museums of all disciplines in project-based efforts to serve the public through exhibitions, educational/interpretive programs, digital learning resources, policy development and institutional planning, technology enhancements, professional development, community outreach, audience development, and/or collections management, curation, care, and conservation. Inspire! has three project categories:

• Lifelong Learning

• Institutional Capacity

• Collections Stewardship and Access

Eligibility

Eligible applicants

Miscellaneous

  • Other

Additional information

See the Notice of Funding Opportunity for program eligibility criteria.

Grantor contact information

Description

Lifelong Learning: Reagan Moore Senior Museum Program Officer rmoore@imls.gov Laura Zamarripa Museum Program Specialist lzamarripa@imls.gov Institutional Capacity: Reagan Moore Senior Museum Program Officer rmoore@imls.gov Jennifer Anstadt Museum Program Specialist janstadt@imls.gov Collections Stewardship and Access: Mark Feitl Senior Museum Program Officer mfeitl@imls.gov Lola Clairmont Museum Program Specialist lclairmont@imls.gov

Email

IMLS-MuseumGrants@imls.gov

IMLS-MuseumGrants@imls.gov

Documents

File nameDescriptionLast updated
fy23-oms-igsm-nofo.pdf
FY23 Inspire! Grants for Small Museums Notice of Funding Opportunity
Aug 15, 2022 05:10 PM UTC

Link to additional information

https://www.imls.gov/grants/available/inspire-grants-small-museums

Closed: November 15, 2022

Application process

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Award

$2,600,000

Program Funding

60

Expected awards

$5,000

Award Minimum

$50,000

Award Maximum

Funding opportunity number:

IGSM-FY23

Cost sharing or matching requirement:

No

Funding instrument type:

Grant

Opportunity Category:

Discretionary

Opportunity Category Explanation:

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Category of Funding Activity:

Humanities

Arts

Category Explanation:

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History

Version:

2

Posted date:

August 15, 2022

Archive date:

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