The Panama Canal –Preserving a Legacy, Celebrating a Centennial, Leveraging an Extraordinary Human Achievement (105948) – ($477,312 cash; $541,976 cost share) This project proposes to: 1) actualize, integrate, evaluate, and disseminate museum materials from the Panama Canal Museum; 2) lead a multi-institutional centennial celebration of the opening Panama Canal in 2014-2015 to promote public understanding of the achievement and the heritage resources available for scholarly, educational, and civic purposes; and 3) initiate a national dialog about the potential for best practices in library-museum collaborations, strategic alliances, and partnerships.
