The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has been awarded a $15,000 grant from the Henry Luce Foundation as part of a one-year conservation initiative for American art collections in U.S. museums. The money is being used for the conservation and framing of some of the American art that will be on view at the Museum’s reopening October 14, 2007, following a $20.8 million renovation and expansion of its historic building.
The Bowdoin College Museum of Art has received a $500,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) for preservation of the Museum's collections.