Thursday, May 7, 2015
Eighteen Cultural Institutions Receive Support from Carnegie Corporation of New York
The recipients are well-established institutions with distinguished education programs, including museums, libraries, and performing arts and science centers. The organizations are: American Museum of Natural History; Asia Society; Brooklyn Academy of Music; Carnegie Hall; Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum; Liberty Science Center; Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts; The Metropolitan Museum of Art; The Morgan Library & Museum; Museum of Modern Art; National September 11 Memorial & Museum; New Jersey Performing Arts Center; The New York Botanical Garden; New York Historical Society; The New York Public Library; Brooklyn Public Library; Queens Library; and Studio in a School.
"New York City, one of the cultural capitals of the United States, has the largest public school system in the nation. Carnegie Corporation is proud to support the city's cultural institutions in order to enhance the curriculum of our public as well as private and parochial schools with the riches these museums, libraries, and centers possess," said Vartan Gregorian, President of Carnegie Corporation of New York. "It speaks well of these organizations' leaders that they have developed education programs to help students overcome deficiencies in the arts and sciences that our schools can't provide due to financial factors...."