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Foundation Receives NEA
Grant to Restore WTC Model Seven-foot-tall replica is one of 80 grants recipients nationwide |
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The National Endowment for the Arts announced September 25 that it is awarding Save America's Treasures grants to 80 projects in 36 states, the District of Columbia, and Puerto Rico, including one to the Octagon Museum/American Architectural Foundation Collection for restoration of a seven-foot-tall model of the World Trade Center. The $62,000 from the NEA will go toward restoration of a model of the first six buildings of New York's World Trade Center fabricated in the model shop of Minoru Yamasaki Associates, the center's architect. Part of a traveling exhibition, the model has been damaged over time. Depicting the entire World Trade Center site, the model was built for final presentation to the New York New Jersey Port Authority. It is the only remaining model of the buildings in existence. Once restored, it will reside for two years at the new home of the Skyscraper Museum in Battery Park City. Each award presented by the NEA requires a dollar-for-dollar non-federal matchsupplied by states, municipalities, businesses, foundations, and individuals who pledge to support the projects with financial contributions, donations, and in-kind services. The World Trade Center model restoration grant will be administered by the NEA. Other grants within the Save America's Treasures program are administered by the NEA, National Park Service (NPS), National Endowment for the Humanities, or the Institute of Museum and Library Services, all through the congressionally-appropriated Historic Preservation Fund. "Preserving historic place and museum collections helps us all understand better what it is to be an American," stated NPS Director Fran P. Mainella in a press release announcing the awards. "The 80 Save America's Treasures projects we award today ensure that more of our irreplaceable tangible heritage will survive to educate, inspire, and enrich the lives of this and generations of Americans yet unborn." A panel of experts in conservation and presentation selected the 80 grants-winning
projects from a field of 389 entries and will award a total of $15.6 million.
Projects were selected for their: Other projects funded through the Save America's Treasures grants program
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