Revitalizing Community Connections in the Native Peoples of the Colorado Plateau Gallery

FAIN: CH-51286-15

Museum of Northern Arizona, Inc. (Flagstaff, AZ 86001-8348)
Robert Breunig (Project Director: May 2014 to August 2016)
Anne Elizabeth Franke (Project Director: August 2016 to September 2016)
Carrie Heinonen (Project Director: September 2016 to June 2019)

Renovation of space in the Ethnology section of MNA’s Native Peoples of the Colorado Plateau exhibition.

MNA requests an NEH Challenge Grant of $122,524 to renovate the Ethnology section of our Native Peoples of the Colorado Plateau exhibit, which will strengthen humanities programming and serve as a model for planned renovations of the entire museum’s exhibit program. NEH support will make possible critical capital improvements: new flooring, new lighting, new HVAC, purchase of cases for collections display. Our recently completed roof promotes these upgrades to our top priorities. These key infrastructure improvements will enable us to implement plans for refreshed exhibit content delivered via new graphic panels, additional object displays, and a technology overlay with dynamic media components. We will proceed to planning and implementation phases for a complete renovation of the archaeology and ethnology galleries to create a vibrant, multimedia exhibit that will form the core of our humanities programming at MNA and and serve as a model for renovation of the entire museum.