New museum opens at site of Woodstock
Museum at Bethel Woods: The Story of the Sixties and Woodstock
The new museum opens a year before the 40th anniversary of Woodstock. Centered on a 6,728-square-foot permanent gallery, this multi-media experience that combines film and interactive displays, text panels, and artifacts to tell the story of the Sixties and Woodstock.
$1 million in Pew heritage awards
(March 26, 2008) The Heritage Philadelphia Program emphasizes projects which make the connection between present-day life and the past, making history come alive for ... Read the full Philadelphia Inquirer article >>
Heritage Philadelphia Program to Award Over $1 Million for History Programs and Historic Preservation
(March 24, 2008) The Heritage Philadelphia Program announces grants totaling $1,010,112—the largest amount awarded since the program’s inception ten years ago—to nine cultural organizations in the Philadelphia area for outstanding projects in interpretive history programming and historic preservation. More >>
Marking where life was lost.
(November 12, 2007) Laurel Hill Cemetery to launch "The Urban Mourning Project." By engaging children in art and studies on mourning across cultures, the project aims to help them cope with losing a loved one to homicide. Read the full Philadelphia Inquirer article.
UNDAUNTED: Five American Explorers, 1760-2007
(June 22, 2007 – December 28, 2008) UNDAUNTED: Five American Explorers, 1760-200, an exhibition of the American Philosophical Museum exhibition. What does it take to be an Explorer? Five intrepid individuals shared a sense of adventure and the courage to explore the unknown: David Rittenhouse in the 18th century, John James Audubon, Titian Ramsay Peale, and Elisha Kent Kane in the 19th century, and Ruth Patrick in the 20th century. Go to the UNDAUNTED press release, reviews, and interviews.
Heritage Philadelphia Program Awards $650,000 to Regional Historic Sites and Museums
Philadelphia (March 5, 2007)
The Heritage Philadelphia Program announces grants totaling $650,550 to seven historic sites and museums in the Philadelphia area, each undertaking outstanding projects in history programming and historic preservation. More >>
Heritage Philadelphia Program Awards Over $500,000 in Grant Funds
March, 2006
The Heritage Philadelphia Program has awarded four grants totaling $549,924 to historic sites and museums in the Greater Philadelphia region. The funds will go toward planning and implementing crucial historic preservation work.
In alphabetical order, the awards are as follows:
Mother Bethel AME Church
To preserve the masonry and mitigate water damage to this historic church building ($150,000).
Pearl S. Buck International
To implement preservation work on the Pearl S. Buck House. The work will eliminate imminent life safety issues, mitigate water damage and increase access to the National Historic Landmark ($150,000).
Please Touch Museum
For restoration of ornamental plasterwork in the Great Hall at Memorial Hall, the museum’s historic “new” home ($150,000).
Wagner Free Institute of Science:
For a condition analysis of the Wagner’s roof structure, in preparation for restoration and repair work ($99,924).
For a complete list of Heritage Philadelphia grants, please see Grants Awarded.
The awards were judged by a national panel of museum professionals, historians and architects. Assisting panel chair Ken Turino, Exhibition Manager for Historic New England were: Catherine Fields, Executive Director of the Litchfield Historical Society; Lynne Spencer, Principal, Menders, Torrey and Spencer Architects; Max vanBalgooy, Director of Education and Interpretation for the National Trust for Historic Preservation; and Jay D. Vogt, Director of the South Dakota State Historical Society and State Historic Preservation Officer.
For a complete list of Heritage Philadelphia Program panelists, please see Heritage Philadelphia Program Panelists.
November, 2005
We are now located at the Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage.
Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage supports creativity and excellence through Dance Advance, Heritage Philadelphia Program, Pew Fellowships in the Arts, Philadelphia Exhibitions Initiative, Philadelphia Music Project, Philadelphia Theatre Initiative and the Philadelphia Cultural Management Initiative. Philadelphia Center for Arts and Heritage is supported by The Pew Charitable Trusts and is administered by The University of the Arts.
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Local Organizations Receive AASLH Awards of Merit
October, 2005
Congratulations to the Mill at Anselma (Chester Springs) and Stenton (Philadelphia), for receiving Awards of Merit from AASLH. Awards of Merit are presented for a performance deemed excellent compared nationally with similar activities.
The Mill’s award was given in recognition of the restoration of c. 1747 mill building. Stenton, in conjunction with Wyck, Johnson House Historic Site and Cliveden of the National Trust, received their award for the development of the History Hunters Youth Reporter Program, a collaborative educational program.
