During the most recent legislative session, the New York State Assembly and Senate allocated or reallocated $10,875,000 in program funding and economic development assistance to 51 museums, zoos, botanical gardens, and aquariums in Assembly Resolution 714 and Senate Resolution 1395, 1399, 1407, and 1408. Seventeen museums were allocated or reallocated $45,725,000 from the capital assistance program in Assembly Resolution 715.
The resolutions included reallocations from the prior year funding for those organizations that did not receive their full allocation of funding as well as those who were fully funded, i.e., both “old” and “new” money. The resolutions authorize New York State to meet any prior year funding obligation in full. If you have any questions about what you see below or on the more detailed list here, please contact your legislative representatives.
MANY would like to extend our sincerest thanks to our state legislative representatives whose generous support will enable our arts, history, science, and cultural institutions to continue to serve their communities, attract tourists, and secure the historic structures they call home. The summer is an excellent time to be in touch with your legislative representatives and invite them to come see what you do. Not sure who represents you? Click here to find your Assemblymember and here for your NY State Senator.
The list of organizations that received funding is below. If your organization was allocated or reallocated funding, and you don’t see your organization’s name below, please let us know and accept our apologies in advance for the oversight.
Recipients of Program and Economic Development Assistance
Adirondack Historical Association
American Museum of the Moving Image
American Museum of LGBT History & Culture
Amigos del Museo del Barrio
Bronx Museum of the Arts
Brooklyn Botanical Garden
Brooklyn Children’s Museum
Brooklyn Historical Society
Buffalo & Erie County Botanical Gardens Society
Buffalo & Erie County Historical Society
Buffalo Niagara Heritage Village
Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences
Buffalo Transportation Pierce-Arrow Museum
Burchfield Penny
Herschell Carousel Factory Museum
Cultural Museum of African Art
Museum of Science and Technology
Everson Museum of Art
Frederick Remington Art Museum
Garden City Historical Society
Goshen Public Library & Historic Society
Historic Hudson Valley
Holocaust Memorial & Tolerance Center of Nassau County
Hudson River Museum of Westchester
Historic Huguenot Street
Intrepid Sea, Air, and Space Museum
Irish American Heritage Museum
Long Island Children’s Museum
Louis Armstrong House Museum
Lower East Side Tenement Museum
Mid-Hudson Discovery Museum
Museum of Contemporary African Diaspora Arts
Cradle of Aviation Museum
National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum
New York Hall of Science
New York Historical Society
New York Zoological Society
Northport Historical Society
Old Stone House of Brooklyn
Queens County Farm Museum
Roosevelt Island Historical Society
Safe Haven Museum
Schenectady Museum Association
Seneca Park Zoo
Staten Island Zoological Society
Studio Museum in Harlem
Wave Hill Public Garden & Cultural Center
Western New York Railway Historical Society
Whitney Museum of American Art
Wildlife Conservation Society
Zoological Society of Buffalo
Recipients of Capital Assistance
Bronx Children’s Museum
Children’s Museum of Manhattan
Cultural Museum of African Art
El Museo del Barrio
Everson Museum of Art
Intrepid Sea, Air & Space Museum
The Jewish Museum
American Museum of Natural History
New York Botanical Gardens
Onondaga Historical Association
Planting Fields Foundation
Queens Botanical Garden Society
Queens Museum of Art
Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation
Underground Railroad Education Center
Universal Hip Hop Museum
Wildlife Conservation Society
