Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

7/1/1981 - 9/30/1983

Funding Totals

$35,000.00 (approved)
$34,325.00 (awarded)


An Interpretive Guide to the Arnold Arboretum to Reveal a Plant Collection as a Human Cultural Endeavor.

FAIN: GM-*1687-81

President and Fellows of Harvard College (Cambridge, MA 02138-3800)
Richard E. Weaver (Project Director: January 1981 to October 1990)

To support planning and research for an interpretive guide to the Arboretum and its living collections, stressing the social and intellectual considera- tions which were the basis for its founding and development and placing the cultural significance of the Arboretum into the context of modern society.