Inspire! Grants for Small Museums (2025)

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

See the Notice of Funding Opportunity for eligibility information. IMLS is extending the deadline for Inspire! Grants for Small Museums from November 15, 2024, to December 13, 2024, for institutions located in Federally declared emergency and/or major disaster areas who have not been able to meet the current November 15, 2024, deadline because they have been adversely impacted by such emergencies and/or disasters. An affected organization must, by December 13 at 11:59pm EST, submit its completed application with a written statement from its Authorizing Official that: • Specifies the applicable Emergency Declaration and/or Major Disaster Declaration for the area in which the applicant organization is located (see FEMA’s listing of Declared Disasters https://www.fema.gov/disaster/declarations) and • Confirms that the applicant organization was unable to meet the original application deadline of November 15, 2024, due to the emergency or disaster. This statement should be prepared as a Supporting Document and uploaded as part of the application submitted through Grants.gov. For those applicants who have not been adversely affected by such emergencies and/or disasters, the deadline remains November 15, 2024, at 11:59pm EST.

Lifelong Learning: Reagan Moore Senior Museum Program Officer rmoore@imls.gov Institutional Capacity: Reagan Moore Senior Museum Program Officer rmoore@imls.gov Collections Stewardship and Access: Mark Isaksen Supervisory Grants Management Specialist misaksen@imls.gov imls-museumgrants@imls.gov