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Program

Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations

Period of Performance

8/1/2001 - 8/31/2002

Funding Totals (outright + matching)

$250,000.00 (approved)
$250,000.00 (awarded)

Bringing the Heavens to Earth: Cultural Astronomies Around the World

FAIN: GM-26254-01

Adler Planetarium & Astronomy Museum (Chicago, IL 60605-2403)
Marvin Paul Bolt (Project Director: February 2001 to November 2007)

Implementation of a permanent exhibition and programs on the differing cultural perceptions and interpretations of celestial events and objects around the world, both in the past and the present.