Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

12/1/1982 - 3/31/1986

Funding Totals

$150,000.00 (approved)
$150,000.00 (awarded)


The Origins of Writing and the Alphabet

FAIN: GM-20958-83

University of Wisconsin, Madison (Madison, WI 53715-1218)
Keith N. Schoville (Project Director: June 1982 to October 1990)

To support implementation of an exhibition on the origins and history of writing from primitive communications to the alphabet by presentation of more than one hundred original artifacts representing and describing graphic communications for ca. 6000 B.C. to the 4th century A.D.