Completion and Furnishing of the BAM Hamm Archives

FAIN: CHA-284395-23

Brooklyn Academy of Music, Inc. (Brooklyn, NY 11217-1430)
Jonathan Jones (Project Director: May 2021 to December 2024)
Clemente Luna (Project Director: December 2024 to present)

The purchase and installation of furnishings, fixtures, and equipment and costs associated with the relocation of archival materials to the new Hamm Archives of the Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) in New York.

Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM) requests a National Endowment for the Humanities Infrastructure and Capacity Building Challenge Grant (Capital) to purchase equipment and furnishings for the first permanent and public-facing home for the BAM Hamm Archives. Situated within the BAM Karen—BAM’s new cultural venue complex to be completed at 10 Lafayette Ave. in Downtown Brooklyn in 2023—this new facility will include 3,500 square feet of state-of-the-art collections storage, administrative and conservation infrastructure, a dedicated research room, and the Shelby White & Leon Levy Reading Room, which will provide open access to BAM’s historical and cultural holdings for the first time in the institution’s history. The project will also facilitate the relocation of the collections from off site to the BAM campus in Downtown Brooklyn, physically situating the Archives in a visible, public research and storage center at BAM.