Preservation and Access Education and Training
Support for education and training is an essential component of the preservation of humanities resources. Grants are made for regional preservation field services to help ensure that smaller cultural institutions across the country receive the kind of advice and knowledge required to preserve their collections, as well as for graduate education in conservation for library and museum professionals and for the training of mid-career professionals in collections care and conservation. Grants are also made for projects that focus on the skills and knowledge required to provide or enhance intellectual access to humanities collections.
Guidelines URL: www.neh.gov/grants/guidelines/pet.html

PE-50004, University of Chicago:
Accelerated Archaeological Conservation Training (AACT).
A grant to the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago in 2007 supported an accelerated archaeological conservation training program conducted in the United States for four conservators from Afghanistan. This program also facilitated NEH support of the traveling exhibition, “Afghanistan: Hidden Treasures from the National Museum, Kabul” which visited the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., from May 25 to September 7, 2008.
Project URL: oi.uchicago.edu/

PE-50021, University of Delaware:
Material Culture Conservation Education and Training
A grant to the University of Delaware in 2008 provided support for five graduate fellowships for students specializing in the preservation of objects, textiles, painted and decorative surfaces, and furniture.
Project URL: www.artcons.udel.edu/