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IMS Museum Awarded $10,000 Grant From NEH
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The Indianapolis Motor Speedway Museum is now among the preservation, education, research and public programming entities receiving more than $29 million in grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH).
The NEH announced last month that IMS Museum has been awarded $10,000 to improve the Museum’s high-polish metal trophy storage environment, allowing the IMS Museum staff to better preserve the nearly 400 trophies in the Museum’s collection. The funding originates from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants program.
Some of these trophies will be part of the IMS Museum’s newest exhibit, which will be announced soon. 
The Museum curatorial staff will utilize the funding to purchase storage cabinets and shelving, and preservation supplies to properly store and care for trophies dating from 1903 to 2017, including Indianapolis 500 trophies predating the famed Borg-Warner Trophy, to the complete collection of pre-World War II trophies won by Grand Prix racing legend Rudolf Caracciola.
The NEH is an independent federal agency, established in 1965, which supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from across the United States. Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, was the other Indiana entity to receive NEH funding in this round of grants.
For more information on the National Endowment for the Humanities, visit neh.gov. For more on the IMS Museum, visit indyracingmuseum.org.
The NEH announced last month that IMS Museum has been awarded $10,000 to improve the Museum’s high-polish metal trophy storage environment, allowing the IMS Museum staff to better preserve the nearly 400 trophies in the Museum’s collection. The funding originates from the National Endowment for the Humanities Preservation Assistance Grants program.
Some of these trophies will be part of the IMS Museum’s newest exhibit, which will be announced soon. 
The Museum curatorial staff will utilize the funding to purchase storage cabinets and shelving, and preservation supplies to properly store and care for trophies dating from 1903 to 2017, including Indianapolis 500 trophies predating the famed Borg-Warner Trophy, to the complete collection of pre-World War II trophies won by Grand Prix racing legend Rudolf Caracciola.
The NEH is an independent federal agency, established in 1965, which supports research and learning in history, literature, philosophy and other areas of the humanities by funding selected, peer-reviewed proposals from across the United States. Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, was the other Indiana entity to receive NEH funding in this round of grants.
For more information on the National Endowment for the Humanities, visit neh.gov. For more on the IMS Museum, visit indyracingmuseum.org.
