Carnahan awards grant to Still National Osteopathic Museum and International Center for Osteopathic History
Posted: February 9, 2010
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. (Jan. 27, 2010) – Secretary of State Robin Carnahan today announced that the Missouri State Archives, a division of her office, awarded a $1,042 grant to the Still National Osteopathic Museum and International Center for Osteopathic Health History.
The grant will be used to purchase specialized equipment to help ensure that the museum’s nearly 30,000-item collection is preserved. The museum houses artifacts and documents, such as historical osteopathic records, journals and books, which help recount the story of osteopathic medicine. From 2008-2009, about 7,900 people visited the museum, which is located in Kirksville, and 23,600 people visited the museum’s website (www.atsu.edu/museum).
“Missouri’s remarkable history needs to be preserved for future generations,” Carnahan said. “I am pleased to support local institutions across the state in their efforts to protect and make available the records of our past.”
The grant to the Still National Osteopathic Museum and International Center for Osteopathic Health History is part of $65,000 awarded to the Missouri State Archives by the National Historical Publications and Records Commission to promote the preservation and availability of Missouri’s historical records. The majority of these funds have been awarded to local and regional institutions across the state for preservation and access projects.
“The funding to purchase an additional hygrothermograph is extremely timely, as the museum has expanded its collection space by 3,000 square feet in the last few months,” said Jason Haxton, director of the Still National Osteopathic Museum. “This purchase will help us measure and record the atmospheric humidity and temperature of the new space to better protect the historical collections unique to the founding of osteopathic medicine in northeast Missouri.”
Any public or private records repositories across the state that care for documents of significant historical value could have requested funds for records management and preservation projects. The projects include conservation services, consulting, indexing and describing collections, and the purchase of archival supplies and equipment. Grant recipients have one year to complete their projects and submit reports of their results.
Since 2001, similar grants totaling more than $560,000 have been awarded to Missouri’s historical records repositories through the Missouri Historical Records Grant Program (MHRGP). To learn more about the grant program, visit www.sos.mo.gov/archives/mhrab/guidelines.asp.
For more information about this grant, contact Debra Loguda-Summers, curator of the Still National Osteopathic Museum-International Center for Osteopathic History, at 660.626.2359 or dsummers@atsu.edu.
To find out more about Missouri’s Secretary of State’s office, visit www.sos.mo.gov.