Digital Museums Canada awards over $2 million in funding to museums and Indigenous organizations
Summary
"We continue to see a record number of proposal submissions from museums, demonstrating their keen interest in digital storytelling and building their online capacity. The innovative projects selected touch on a diverse range of topics, including Indigenous heritage and language revitalization, immigration, mental health and community health care, sports and the Olympics, visual art, geology, military history, and 2SLGBTQIA+ stories.Bobby Orr Hall of Fame (Parry Sound, Ont. )Sport and Anishinaabe Values: Seven Grandfather Gifts and the Seventh Generation Principle in Parry SoundChinese Canadian Military Museum Society (Vancouver, B.C. )Were Here, Weve Always Been Here: Tracing the Struggles and Contributions of Black LGBTQ+ Women and Non-Binary People in QuebecCapital Heritage Connexion (Ottawa, Ont. DMC is committed to online accessibility as well as to advancing equity, diversity and inclusion in the heritage sector.Eligible organizations are invited to apply during the next Call for Proposals, which opens on June 15.