Collection Preservation and Study Center

FAIN: CHA-261870-20

University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA 93106-0001)
Bruce Robertson (Project Director: March 2018 to October 2019)
Elyse A. Gonzales (Project Director: October 2019 to March 2020)
Silvia Perea (Project Director: March 2020 to November 2021)
Gabriel R. Ritter (Project Director: November 2021 to present)

Renovation of a university property to house the museum’s collections as well as a research and study center.

The Art, Design & Architecture Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara (AD&AM) has built an international reputation through its Architecture and Design Collection. Encompassing the history of Southern California architecture, landscape design, and urbanism from the late 19th to the early 21st century, this still growing collection is the essential archival resource for the study of Southern California through the prism of the built environment. The AD&AM requests $326,593 as part of a $1,306,371 NEH Challenge grant to enhance the Museum’s infrastructure for collection preservation, access and growth by supporting the renovation of a new Collection Preservation and Study Center. The Center is needed to preserve and enable growth of the collection, and to foster intensive and innovative use of the collection by students and scholars through on-site visits and online access. Funds will be raised from foundations, individual and corporate donors.