University Museum to receive $50,000 grant
The University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology received a $50,000 grant to study Philadelphia architecture yesterday.
The grant was given by the Heritage Philadelphia Program, which has provided funding for the development and support of museums and historic sites in the Philadelphia area since 1998, according to a press release.
The museum received the grant for its proposal to study the architecture and building methods for a complex designed partly by Wilson Eyre, a Philadelphia architect who worked around the turn of the 20th century.
The information from the study of this structure will eventually be made available to the public.
Barbara Silberman, a spokeswoman for the program, said that judges for the grant thought the plan was "well thought-out" and "architecturally significant."
The museum has received grants from this organization in the past, one specifically for an exhibit that has yet to open.
The grant is funded by the Pew Charitable Trusts -- an organization that commits millions each year to a variety of nonprofit organizations -- and is administered by the Independence Visitor Center Corporation.
-- Alexis Orenstein
