| CP-30181-95 | Challenge Programs: Public Challenge Grants | Currier Museum of Art | Renovation and Expansion of Severely Limited Educational Facilities and Installation of Climate-Control | 12/1/1992 - 7/31/1998 | $500,000.00 | Susan | E. | Strickler | | | | Currier Museum of Art | Manchester | NH | 03104-4380 | USA | 1995 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Public Challenge Grants | Challenge Programs | 0 | 500000 | 0 | 500000 | To support fundraising expenses as well as renovation and expansion of existingspace to develop an education center and to provide climate control for the European collections. |
| GA-274565-20 | Public Programs: Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs) | Currier Museum of Art | Understanding Frank Lloyd Wright’s Usonian Automatic House | 6/15/2020 - 6/30/2021 | $170,404.00 | Andrew | | Spahr | | | | Currier Museum of Art | Manchester | NH | 03104-4380 | USA | 2020 | American Studies | Cooperative Agreements and Special Projects (Public Programs) | Public Programs | 170404 | 0 | 170404 | 0 | The retention of four employees to create digital assets around two Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian Houses in the collection.
This project develops the research, interpretation, and programming of a Usonian Automatic home by Frank Lloyd Wright recently acquired by the Currier Museum. It will be programmed together with another Wright house owned by the museum. This project intends to build a new understanding of the social context of the house, and present this in tours, web content, classes, and publications. The Usonian Automatic house (1957) was purchased in Nov. 2019 with donated funds. A research and interpretative plan was developed and was just commencing when the covid-19 crisis suspended it. The museum intends to refocus more of this work to digital platforms, while preparing for on-site programs. Without support, this important new initiative will be suspended indefinitely as the museum faces annual deficits of $700,000 or more. This important monument of modern American domestic architecture is now inaccessible. It would be Wright’s only Usonian Automatic house open to the public. |
| GM-*1097-78 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations | Currier Museum of Art | NEW ENGLAND MEETING HOUSE AND CHURCH: 1630-1850 | 8/15/1978 - 7/15/1979 | $30,262.00 | Peter | | Benes | | | | Currier Museum of Art | Manchester | NH | 03104-4380 | USA | 1978 | Interdisciplinary Studies, General | Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations | Public Programs | 30262 | 0 | 30262 | 0 | No project description available |
| GM-24538-91 | Public Programs: Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations | Currier Museum of Art | Zimmerman House Interpretive Plan | 7/1/1991 - 6/30/1993 | $40,000.00 | Barbara | | Pitsch | | | | Currier Museum of Art | Manchester | NH | 03104-4380 | USA | 1991 | Architecture | Humanities Projects in Museums and Historical Organizations | Public Programs | 40000 | 0 | 39071.86 | 0 | To support planning of interpretive programs for the Zimmerman House, designed in 1950 by Frank Lloyd Wright. |
| PH-20506-92 | Preservation and Access: National Heritage Preservation Projects | Currier Museum of Art | Installation of Climate Control for American Material Culture Collections | 7/1/1992 - 9/30/1996 | $647,650.00 | Susan | E. | Strickler | | | | Currier Museum of Art | Manchester | NH | 03104-4380 | USA | 1992 | American Studies | National Heritage Preservation Projects | Preservation and Access | 647650 | 0 | 647650 | 0 | To support the installation of a climate control system that will preserve the museum's collection of American decorative arts. |