Mystic Seaport to Receive Major Connecticut Humanities Grant

MIDDLETOWN, CT- Mystic Seaport was announced among ten nonprofit organizations that will share more than $175,500 in grant money from Connecticut Humanities to support humanities-based programming across the state.

Connecticut Humanities distributes money, allocated by the Connecticut General Assembly, through a competitive, merit-based application process. In southeastern Connecticut, Major Grants will support staff training programs designed to improve visitor experiences at Mystic Seaport and the Joshua and Nathaniel Hempsted Houses in New London.

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Connecticut Humanities has awarded the Mystic Seaport a $9,979 grant to establish two training programs for a select group of museum staff. One program will explore the creative process to produce dynamic, innovative interpretive techniques, and the other will encourage the use of evaluation for continuous improvement.

This training will provide Seaport staff with critically-needed skills to practice, embrace, evaluate, and refine a wide range of practices to adapt in an era of technological advances and environmental changes.

Connecticut Humanities, a nonprofit affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities, funds, creates and collaborates on hundreds of cultural programs across Connecticut each year. It administers a competitive grant pool made possible by the Connecticut General Assembly.