Museum Gets $100,000 Grant for New Exhibit
A proposal to chronicle Ventura’s evolution from a Chumash village and explore the cultures that remain through a new exhibit at the Ventura County Museum of History and Art has received a $100,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities, museum officials said.
Director Ed Robings said construction will begin in the Huntsinger Gallery as soon as July, and the exhibit will open by the end of the year.
“We have been working toward changing the exhibits in the galleries for many years,” Robings said. “Support from the NEH provides the financial base to go forward.”
Instead of detailing the traditional history of westward migration and conquest, historians said the new exhibit will emphasize the influence and survival of many cultures.
Entitled “Ventura County in the New West,” the exhibit will emphasize two primary themes: the changing ways that people use this area’s natural resources and the changes that the area underwent since its days as a Chumash village.
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