Closed · 21MP-FY25 · CFDA 45.032 · Discretionary

21st Century Museum Professionals Program (2025)

Federal grant opportunity posted by Institute of Museum and Library Services, cataloged on Grants.gov.

$100K-$500K
Award range
Closed
Status
November 15, 2024
Close date
8
Expected awards

The verdict

21st Century Museum Professionals Program (2025) is a closed discretionary listing from Institute of Museum and Library Services that offered $100,000 -- $500,000 across 8 expected awards. Future funding cycles may be published under the same CFDA number. PlainGrants indexes 138 other opportunities from Institute of Museum and Library Services.

$100K-$500K
award range
Closed
application status
8
expected awards
45.032
CFDA program

Archived opportunity record

21st Century Museum Professionals Program is closed (last close November 15, 2024). Check the agency catalog for replacement NOFOs. Institute of Museum and Library Services still indexes 138 other opportunities here.

According to Grants.gov (extract vintage 2026-08-10), this record reflects the officially published listing. See methodology.

Deadline tracker

Application window closed

Closed November 15, 2024

Posted Aug 15 Closes Nov 15

Est. Total Funding

$2,000,000

Expected Awards

8

Instrument

Grant

Cost Sharing

Required

Description

The 21st Century Museum Professional (21MP) grant program supports projects that offer professional development to the current museum workforce, train and recruit future museum professionals, and identify and share effective practices in museum workforce education and training. IMLS recognizes the important role of strong local and regional networks in providing peer-to-peer learning, training, and mentoring opportunities for the museum workforce. Partnerships among museums, museum-serving organizations, and institutions of higher education are vital to expanding career pathways for broad groups of museum professionals throughout a city, county, state, region, or the nation. The 21MP Program encourages applications from museum associations, museum studies programs at institutions of higher education, and museums that serve as essential parts of the professional learning and training environment.

Catch-all / unrestricted eligibility mark · 21MP-FY25

Grants.gov marks 21st Century Museum Professionals Program with a catch-all / unrestricted eligibility code (Others (see official listing text)). Read the official announcement text for the real applicant filter — the code alone is not a door list. Applicant cost-sharing is required on the Grants.gov extract. Instrument: Grant. Funding-activity codes span Arts · Humanities (AR;HU). This eligibility-code string dominates the Institute of Museum and Library Services book (124 peers, 89% of 139).

Code 25
Others (see official listing text)

Codes are Grants.gov eligibility category values from the extract vintage 2026-08-10. Confirm the full eligibility statement on the official listing or the Grants.gov eligibility reference.

Official Listing on Grants.gov

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Agency Contact

Mark Isaksen Supervisory Grants Management Specialist misaksen@imls.gov imls-museumgrants@imls.gov

What to do next

21st Century Museum Professionals Program is closed; use the parent program and agency catalog for the next funding cycle.

  • Browse open federal opportunities in the same category when this listing is closed. Open opportunities
  • Look up CFDA 45.032 across all indexed listings before you commit to this opportunity alone. Eligibility finder
  • Institute of Museum and Library Services lists 138 other indexed opportunities on PlainGrants. Agency catalog

Opportunity deadlines and eligibility change on Grants.gov; PlainGrants mirrors the extract and is not the submission system.

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Read our methodology - how this data is sourced, computed, and verified.

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