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Staten Island Museum Gets $450K Grant For Expansion

By Nicholas Rizzi | November 10, 2014 3:44pm
 The Staten Island Museum was awarded a $450,000 grant to help fund its expansion into Snug Harbor.
The Staten Island Museum was awarded a $450,000 grant to help fund its expansion into Snug Harbor.
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Staten Island Museum

ST. GEORGE — The Staten Island Museum received a $450,000 grant to help fund an expansion into Snug Harbor, the museum announced.

The Staten Island Foundation put the grant, to be paid over three years, toward the $1.2 million the project needs.

The museum, currently at 75 Stuyvesant St., has already raised $409,000 for the move. If it meets the $1.2 million by June 2018, it will get a federal match of $400,000 as part of a National Endowment for the Humanities Challenge grant, the museum said.

"This grant represents a major pillar helping us to secure the entire federal NEH funding," Cherly Adolph, the museum's interim president and CEO, said in a statement.

"These generous investments are geared towards humanities exhibitions and activities that showcase sides of Staten Island not typically seen in the media.”

The Staten Island Foundation's grant will help fund things like movable walls, lighting and furniture systems for the new space at Snug Harbor.