Wage and Supplies Support for Pandemic-Adjusted Gallery Tours and Activities

FAIN: PB-274159-20

Arkansas State University (State University, AR 72467-2760)
Marti L. Allen (Project Director: May 2020 to October 2022)

Arkansas State University Museum requests $51,921 to develop and deliver culture- and history-based tours and gallery activities adjusted to pandemic standards of hygiene and social distancing during the period July 1 to December 31, 2020. The request includes $35,258 of part-time wages and fringe benefits, $1,900 for supplies to support the new standards, and $14,763 of University-required indirect costs. By increasing the number of personnel in our corps of gallery aides, these funds will enable the Museum to safely sustain a solid level of informal humanities-focused experiences that thrill children, promote intergenerational learning, and encourage learning as a family value. This work is critical to our mission-driven endeavors to connect audiences with their history, engage them in progressive thinking, and enable them to feel, once again, the sense of community they have been missing due to the pandemic.