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Bruce Cole, (left) head of the National Endowment for the Humanities, presents Annelies Mondi, (center) deputy director of the Georgia Museum of Art, and UGA President Michael F. Adams (right) the commemorative plaque announcing the $750,000 challenge grant the museum received from the NEH. (Photo by Peter Frey)

EXPANDING RESOURCES

NEH helps fund Georgia Museum’s expansion
By Matt Weeks
mweeks@uga.edu
Bruce Cole, chairman of the National Endowment for the Humanities, was on campus Dec. 6 to deliver $750,000 in grant money to the Georgia Museum of Art to expand its building and resources.

Matched by $2.5 million from the museum’s own fundraising, the NEH’s challenge grant will help the museum enhance its collections and further its studies by creating new gallery and research spaces, Cole said.

“A university museum is not a disposable luxury; it’s a vital educational tool as important for learning about the humanities as a laboratory is for the sciences,” he said. “Through its exemplary Study Centers in the Humanities, the Georgia Museum of Art at the University of Georgia is providing an immeasurable educational service to its students, scholars and patrons not only regionally, but nationwide as well.”

The expansion will include a new building to be attached to the existing museum, which will undergo renovations beginning as early as summer 2009.

The new space will add about 28,000 square feet to the GMOA, primarily as gallery space. The current building’s renovation will provide space for research centers that are already in place through the Pierre Daura Center, the Henry D. Green Center for the Study of the Decorative Arts and the Jacob Burns Foundation Center.

A classroom and small conference room also will be added.

“I tell every student to visit the music school, to see the theatre, but especially to visit the Georgia Museum,” said UGA President Michael F. Adams. “The arts and humanities are the very heart and soul of any good liberal arts university.”

In just a little more than one year, the museum raised $2.5 million for the project, which is part of its $20 million phase II renovations.
 


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