Tennessee State Museum Capital Maintenance and Improvements Grant for Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief Grantees Announced

Funding was part of 2024-25 Capital Maintenance and Improvements program for Museums and Historic Sites
Monday, February 03, 2025 | 06:21pm

NASHVILLE, Tenn. – February 3, 2025 – The Tennessee State Museum has announced the recipients of grants from its Capital Maintenance and Improvements Grant Program for Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief. The funding came from the original $5 million the Tennessee General Assembly made available in the 2024-2025 Appropriations Act, “for the sole purpose of providing grants to museums with a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization or affiliated with a governmental entity for capital maintenance and improvements.” After the devastation from Hurricane Helene, some of that funding was earmarked specifically to support institutions in those counties affected by the storm. They include Claiborne, Grainger, Hamblen, Hancock, Jefferson, Sevier, Cocke, Greene, Washington, Hawkins, Unicoi, Carter, Sullivan, and Johnson. The first
round of grantees from the Capital Maintenance and Improvements program were announced last November.

A list of Capital Maintenance and Improvements Grant for Disaster Relief recipients is located at this link and at
TNMuseum.org/grants.

The Capital Maintenance and Improvements Grant for Hurricane Helene Disaster Relief had a minimum request amount of $5,000 and a maximum request amount of $150,000.  All projects must be completed by June 30, 2026.

About Tennessee State Museum

Celebrating its 88th Anniversary in 2025, the Tennessee State Museum, located on the corner of Rosa L Parks Blvd. and Jefferson Street at Bicentennial Capitol Mall State Park, is home to 13,000 years of Tennessee art and history. Through six permanent exhibitions titled Natural History, First Peoples, Forging a Nation, The Civil War and Reconstruction, Change and

Challenge and Tennessee Transforms, the Museum takes visitors on a journey -- through artifacts, films, interactive displays, events and educational and digital programing –- from the state’s geological beginnings to the present day. Additional temporary exhibitions explore significant periods and individuals in history, along with art and cultural movements. The Museum is free and open to the public Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. and Sundays from 1 p.m. – 5 p.m. For more information on exhibitions and events, please visit TNMuseum.org.

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Contact:
Joe Pagetta
Director of Communications
(615) 741-5134
joseph.pagetta@tn.gov