National Blues Museum

The National Blues Museum (NBM) Will Expand Access to the Museum’s Historical Interpretation by Creating New Lesson Plans That Tie Blues History to State and District Learning Goals in Literacy, Math, and Civic Engagement. Project Results Will Include Creation of a New NBM Curriculum to Be Shared With Multiple Schools and Partners Through the ST. Louis’s Des Lee Fine Arts Education Collaborative; Generating Evaluation Data That Will Be Used to Revise and Improve Existing Lesson Plans; an End-of-year Report Showing the Program’s Impact; an End-of-year Concert for Guitar and Drumming Students; and a Museum Exhibition of Student Museum Research Projects. NBM Will Combine Programs in Steam, Literacy, Language Arts, Music, and History to Create a Comprehensive Curriculum, One That the Museum Will Share With Its National Network of Partners.

Committed

$240,000

Paid to

UEI DEH3T1FNJR36

615 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63101

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Place

SAINT LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES

MO-01

Performance

Oct 1, 2025 → Sep 30, 2028

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Federal grant · project grant (b)

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Museum Grants for African American History and Culture to

National Blues Museum

Committed

$240,000

Paid to

National Blues Museum

UEI DEH3T1FNJR36

615 Washington Ave, Saint Louis, MO, 63101

Institute of Museum and Library Services

Place

SAINT LOUIS, MO, UNITED STATES

MO-01

Performance

Oct 1, 2025 → Sep 30, 2028

How to read these numbers

One award, start to finish: Everything here is this single award's whole record — signed, amended, paid — not a fiscal-year slice. The by-year charts elsewhere split an award across the years it was committed; this page keeps it whole.
Committed vs. ceiling: Committed is what the government has legally promised on this award so far. Contracts can also carry a ceiling — the maximum if every option is exercised. Unspent ceiling is headroom, not money owed.
Paid out: The cash actually disbursed against this award. The gap from committed is the disbursement pipeline: promised, not yet cashed.
The ledger: Each transaction is a signing event — an action that created or changed the award, dated the day it was signed — not a payment. Negative amounts are real: money de-committed at closeout or renegotiation.
The money bar: One bar, the award’s whole arithmetic: paid out, then committed, not yet paid, then .

Source

This award on USAspending.gov ↗