§80r–5 Educational and liaison programs

Summary

The museum director may run educational and outreach programs to support the museum’s goals. These programs must teach about African American life, art, history, and culture. They can use digital or interactive technology and work with elementary, secondary, and postsecondary schools. The museum director must talk with the head of the Institute of Museum and Library Services about the grants and scholarships below. The head of the Institute, after consulting with the Council and the museum director, must create several programs: grants to help African American museums improve operations, care for collections, and professional management; grants for internships and fellowships; scholarships for people studying African American life, art, history, and culture in the arts, humanities, or sciences; a grant program, in cooperation with other museums and schools, to teach about modern-day slavery around the world; and grants that let an African-American museum (or a nonprofit whose main mission is the African-American diaspora) add to an endowment the museum had on May 1, 2003, to boost education and run traveling exhibits. Congress authorized $15,000,000 for fiscal year 2004 and whatever funds are needed in later years.