George Eastman Museum

The George Eastman House will use grant funds to purchase and install compact shelving designed to protect, improve, and expand collections storage in the contemporary vault in the museum’s library. The library, renowned for its comprehensive holdings of the literature of photography, cinema, and imaging, is open to the public free of charge and serves an international community of scholars. It is also an essential resource for Eastman House’s curatorial, conservation, and education staff. The project will ensure preventative collection stewardship and expand storage space in the contemporary vault. A subsidiary goal is to create an airlock, which will better maintain climate stability and save energy.