“In March, the Institute of Museum and Library Services announced more than $670,000 in grants to help seven museums recover their collections and reopen to the public,” said Mrs. Bush. “And today, I’m happy to announce that the institute is reserving $1.5 million of the grant money it will award over the next year for projects related to the Gulf Coast and other areas that have suffered major disasters.”
The announcement came during Mrs. Bush’s keynote address at a three-day conference at Tulane University examining the role of New Orleans’ cultural legacy in the city’s recovery from Hurricane Katrina.
Following the speech, Mrs. Bush visited the Historic New Orleans Collection, a private museum and archive located in the French Quarter.
In March, Mrs. Bush announced that the Laura Bush Foundation for America’s Libraries had set up a special fund to award grants to restock school libraries that lost their collections in the disaster.
Posted June 2, 2006.