Grants awarded

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Wende Museum

Grant recipient

Acquisitions and collection care

To acquire, preserve, catalogue, and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks, and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

$750,000

2019

3 years

Institute for Archival Research

Towards construction costs for the Wende Museum’s international centre for digitization and conservation of at-risk post-war archives.

$3,300,000

2022

1 year

Operating and acquisition costs

To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

$5,000,000

2014

5 years

Operating and acquisition costs

To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

$5,000,000

2009

4 years

Operating and acquisition costs

To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

$1,867,100

2004

1 year

Operating and acquisition costs

To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

$991,500

2005

2 years

Operating and acquisition costs

To acquire, preserve, catalogue and digitize Cold War era (1945-1991) artefacts, artworks and archives from Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union.

$275,000

2008

3 years

Running costs

Towards the costs of running the museum.

$100,000

2019

1 year

Soviet Jewry project

Towards preserving, documenting, and providing access to historical materials relating to Soviet Jewry, the Refusenik movement and the Russian-speaking Jewish diaspora.

$1,500,000

2021

3 years

Towards the costs of running the museum

Towards the costs of running the museum.

$100,000

2024

1 year

Towards the costs of running the museum

Towards the costs of running the museum.

$100,000

2023

1 year

Towards the costs of running the museum

Towards the costs of running the museum.

$100,000

2022

1 year

Towards the costs of running the museum

Towards the costs of running the museum.

$100,000

2021

1 year

Towards the costs of running the museum.

Towards the costs of running the museum.

$100,000

2020

1 year

Wende archival digitization

To digitize approximately 50,000 pages of the most important archival material held by the Wende and make it freely available online.

$450,000

2019

3 years

Wende endowment

Towards a permanent endowment for the Wende Museum for collections care and acquisitions and general operations.

$12,500,000

2024

1 year

Wende endowment

Towards a permanent endowment for the Wende Museum with proceeds specifically for collections care and acquisitions.

$7,500,000

2019

10 years