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On Wednesday, May 21, Hanford Mills Museum was notified by e-mail that its two federal grants funded by the Institute of Museum and Library Services were reinstated “in accordance with the court’s Preliminary Injunction Order of May 13, 2025, in State of Rhode Island, et al. v. Trump et al., case no. 1:25-cv-00128.”…
At issue was a $238,475.00 federal grant IMLS had awarded HMM for two separate multi-year projects. One was to improve the management and care of the museum’s historic objects so as to ensure their long-term duration. The other was to create an interpretive master plan, with input from the community, to guide the museum’s activities through 2026.…