Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

4/1/1980 - 12/31/1980

Funding Totals

$187,793.00 (approved)
$187,793.00 (awarded)


Dawn of a New Day: The 1939/40 New York World's Fair

FAIN: GM-*0440-80

Queens Museum of Art (Corona, NY 11368-1038)
Helen A. Harrison (Project Director: November 1979 to October 1990)

To support a temporary, interpretive exhibit and catalogue on the social, cultural, and historical significance of the 1939 World's Fair. The exhibit will be organized by the thematic divisions of the Fair itself. Supplementary public programs will stress the humanistic concerns of the Fair's planners.