[MCN] HISTORICAL MUSEUM AT FORT MISSOULA RECEIVES HUMANITIES MONTANA CARES ACT RELIEF FUNDS

[Jessie Rogers]

THE HISTORICAL MUSEUM AT FORT MISSOULA RECEIVES HUMANITIES MONTANA CARES ACT RELIEF FUNDS

The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula has received $4,000 through Humanities Montana's CARES grant program. This rapid-response funding provides general operating support to cultural organizations in the state that have been affected by the COVID-19 health crisis. These funds are crucial to the Historical Museum so we can continue providing programming and preserving our states cultural treasures. We are very grateful to have received this emergency funding.
"As our nation continues to grapple with a pandemic, many of our local museum's and cultural institutions have struggled with lost revenue, cancelled events, and been forced to create new practices and discover new ways to operate in the COVID-19 world.  Humanities Montana, through the 2020 CARES Grants, is providing much needed assistance to these organizations so they can make changes needed to operate safely, and survive to continue to enrich the lives of all Montanans through art, culture, history, and the humanities." - Matt Lautzenheiser, Director of the Historical Museum at Fort Missoula.
The funds are part of the CARES Act passed by Congress in March. The $2 trillion aid package included $75 million for the National Endowment for the Humanities, approximately $30 million of which was sent to fifty-six state and territorial humanities councils to redistribute to humanities nonprofit organizations in need.
The state humanities councils were chosen to distribute these funds because of their well-established relationships with museums, historical societies, libraries, and cultural institutions that are the cornerstones of some of the most vulnerable and hardest to reach communities.
Humanities Montana is Montana's state humanities council with a mission to serve communities through stories and conversation. They offer experiences that nurture imagination and ideas by speaking to Montanans' diverse history, literature, and philosophy. Established in 1972, they are one of fifty-six councils across the nation that the National Endowment for the Humanities created in order to better infuse the humanities directly and effectively into public life. They produce, fund, create, and support humanities-based projects and programs, eye-opening cultural experiences, and meaningful conversations.
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If you have any questions or for more information, please contact Matt Lautzenheiser, Executive Director Ph# 406 -258-3471 or mlautzenheiser at missoulacounty.us<mailto:mlautzenheiser at missoulacounty.us>.


Jessie Rogers
Development & Communications Director
The Historical Museum at Fort Missoula

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