Museum awarded grant from Missouri Humanities Council
Posted: April 22, 2016
The Missouri Humanities Council (MHC) has awarded a grant of $2,500 to the Museum of Osteopathic Medicine and International Center for Osteopathic History (MOM-ICOH) in support of the project, “Osteopathic Collection Inventory“. The MHC is the only state-wide agency in Missouri devoted exclusively to humanities education for citizens of all ages. It has served as a state affiliate of the National Endowment for the Humanities since 1971. As the only U.S. entity solely dedicated to the field of osteopathic medicine, the Museum’s mission is to preserve and promote the history and tenants of osteopathy through collections and research to a global audience. The “Osteopathic Collection Inventory Project” award will support one collection assistant who will focus on the inventory and digitization of approximately 1,300 early matriculation and business records of the school, personal/professional papers, and scrapbooks. These artifacts are significant to the history of the founding school of osteopathic medicine and are important to historians and researchers studying the social, economic, and scholastic factors leading to the transformation of the school and the osteopathic community. “This additional funding from the Missouri Humanities Council will help further our goal of a fully computerized inventory of the collection and bring a greater portion of the Museum’s collection to patrons worldwide,” says Debra Loguda-Summers, project director. These items, along with other artifacts from the Museum’s collection, are accessible to users for free worldwide at our online collection site, PastPerfect Online <http://momicoh.pastperfectonline.com/>. 
*The Museum of Osteopathic Medicine is sponsoring this program in partnership with the Missouri Humanities Council and with support from the National Endowment for the Humanities.