Federal agency cancels $117,000 grant set to go to Western Mass. museum
A federal agency has cancelled a $117,000 grant that was set to go to the Emily Dickinson Museum in Amherst, according to the museum.
On April 9, the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) notified the museum that the grant had been terminated, the Emily Dickinson Museum said in a Facebook post . The museum had been awarded the grant in 2023 to help it digitize records related to a newly catalogued collection and locate related information among existing records.
"The notice states, 'IMLS has determined that your grant is unfortunately no longer consistent with the agency's priorities and no longer serves the interest of the United States and the IMLS Program,'" the Emily Dickinson Museum wrote.
The Institute of Museum and Library Services did not immediately respond to a request for comment on Sunday.
"Our work to amplify Emily Dickinson's revolutionary poetic voice — by opening her family homes to visitors, by interpretive and educational use of her family's material legacy, by holding up her enduring poetry — continues with support from the Museum's friends and our unending gratitude," the museum wrote.
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