Conference Scholarships

Museums Alaska is committed to helping its members attend its annual conference by offering scholarships for travel, lodging, and conference registration. ​

This initiative is made possible by income from our last two auctions and donations to the Donna Matthews Professional Development Fund.

Organizational members may apply for a scholarship for one staff member. All other applicants must be Individual Members. If you are not a member, click here to join and help us continue to develop programs that benefit the Alaska museum community and the cultural sector.

Direct Impact

Scholarships provide more equitable access to our conference — the largest and most comprehensive professional development and networking event for Alaska's museums and cultural centers.

Travel costs for a multi-day event in Alaska can cost over a thousand dollars. This grant assists museum and cultural center professionals with the cost, so they can benefit from participation in our conference.

Eligibility

All applicants must be an individual member or a staff of an organizational member of Museums Alaska.

Organizational members may apply for a scholarship for one staff member. All other applicants must be Individual Members.

Applicant

Organizational members may apply for a scholarship for one staff person. All other applicants must be current Individual members of Museums Alaska.

 

Recipients must attend the main days of the conference, September 26-27, 2024. For all applicants, attendance at pre-conference workshops and events is optional, but may be included in the costs to be covered in the scholarship application.

 

Active Museums Alaska board members, scholarship review committee members, and their immediate family (parents, spouse, child) are ineligible.

Funding

Eligible expenses include: transportation costs to/from the conference, lodging, taxi/uber/lyft fees, and/or conference registration fees. Car rental during the conference is not eligible. 

 

Use of airline companion fares and other cost-saving measures (roommate, etc.) are positive factors. Alaska Airlines has provided all attendees a 7% discount on flights, so remember to factor that in.

 

You must demonstrate at least 25% in matching funds, whether through personal/institutional funds, other grants/scholarships, or cost-saving measures.

Deadlines

Grant Cycle:

Cycle

Guidelines and Application

Ready to Get Started?

The button below will take you to our application site hosted on Google Forms.

Explore the application guidelines and additional resources.

Application link

To apply, click the button below to go to the submission form on Google Forms.

More details on how to apply can be found in the Application Guidelines linked above.

Resources

Grant Help

We want your grant application to be successful, and have provided resources to help:

Grant Writing Tips

Explore these slides, developed as a resource for the 2019 Museums Alaska conference, provided freely for your reference.

Recommended Practices:

Other Grants

If you are working on a grant application NOT administered by Museums Alaska, take advantage of our grant draft review, a benefit for Organizational Members. Coordinate your draft review by contacting us, ensuring your organization’s membership is current. Please keep the following in mind:

Promotion

Media Kit

Following the grant awards announcement, Museums Alaska distributes a press release to media outlets statewide.

For your own media needs related to the grant, feel free to inform us of any additional resources you might require.

Scholarship Fund

The Conference Scholarship Fund is funded by income from our last two auctions and donations to the Donna Matthews Professional Development Fund. We encourage you to tag Museums Alaska when sharing updates about your scholarship.

Social Media Handles

Museums Alaska

Logos and Use Guidelines

Feel free to use the Museums Alaska logos from the provided images, adhering to the logo use guidelines outlined.

Scholarship Sponsors

Thank you to our auction and professional development fund donors. Without you, none of our scholarships would be possible!

Cape Fox Commercial Services logo with the tagline "Preserving our Tlingit Heritage"
Cape Fox Commercial Services
Northern Alaska Tour company logo featuring stylized line-work of a mountain range and river in front of the mountains and a circle representing the moon or sun above -- all to the left of the name of the company
Northern Alaska Tour Company
Alaska Seaplanes logo featuring a swan with its wings back like it's about to land in the water and a sun behind its head. The swan is the to left of the name of the company.
Alaska Seaplanes
Out to Sea Expedition Company logo featuring a circle with a sailboat riding a big wave in the middle and the name of the company curves around in a circle with Out to Sea at the top and Expedition Company at the bottom.
Out to Sea Expedition Company
Taku Lodge Wings Airways logo
Wings Airways – Taku Lodge
Stan Stephens Glacier & Wildlife Cruises logo with a whale tail behind it
Stan Stephens Glacier and Wildlife Cruises
Major Marine Tours logo in orange and blue
Major Marine Tours
Alaska Railroad logo
Alaska Railroad
A salmon berry with three leaving hanging above the name of the company with Salmon Berry written in a fancy script and Travel & Tours written in an all caps, thin sans serif font underneath.
Salmon Berry Travel and Tours
Anchorage Museum logo - The word Anchorage over the word Museum, all caps, sans serif, in black, and left justified
Anchorage Museum
Falcon Inn Bed & Breakfast log lodge, River View House, Pilot Apartment & Hangar logo
Falcon Inn Bed & Breakfast log lodge, River View House, Pilot Apartment & Hangar
Dorman Museum Figures, Inc. logo
Dorfman Museum Figures, Inc.
Liaise Studios logo
Liaise Studio
Rachelle Dowdy logo
Rachelle Dowdy
Interwoven Fibers LLC logo
Interwoven Fibers
Linda Infante Lyons logo
Linda Infante Lyons
Valdez Museum and Historical Archive logo
Valdez Museum and Historical Archive
Wasilla Museum and Visitor Center logo
Wasilla Museum and Visitor Center
Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association logo
Aleutian Pribilof Islands Association
Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum logo
Friends of the Alaska State Library, Archives, and Museum
Pier One Theatre logo
Pier One Theatre
Talkeetna Historical Society logo
Talkeetna Historical Society
Wanda Chin and Terry Dickey
Homer Council on the Arts logo
Homer Council on the Arts
Alutiiq Museum logo
Alutiiq Museum
Lacie Stiewing – Artist
Cooper Landing Historical Society and Museum sign
Cooper Landing Historical Society and Museum
Dreaming of Alaska business card image
Dreaming of Alaska
ArtCare logo
ArtCare
Rico Worl – Artist
Sarah Asper-Smith – Author
Betany Porter – Artist
Bethany Buckingham Follett
Selena Ortega-Chiolero
Sarah Harrington
Janice Klein
Copper Snail – Artist