Optium® Conservation Grant Program

Tru Vue and the Foundation of the American Institute for Conservation (FAIC) are pleased to announce that they have partnered to offer a new grant award to museums and libraries. This new grant, funded by Tru Vue and administered by FAIC, will support projects in glazing applications for the preservation of museum and library collections. Each year, up to four awards of $4000 each, plus donated Optium® product, will be made available to qualifying museums and libraries.

Recent Grant Awards

Congratulations to The Mariners' Museum of Newport News, Virginia, and to the Newark Museum of New Jersey for receiving the first two grant awards made under the new Tru Vue Optium Conservation Grant program for projects which will help conserve their collections.

The Mariners' Museum project will conserve a portrait of Rear Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson, attributed to Leonardo Guzzardi. The massive oil painting will then be protected from physical damage and ultraviolet light with Optium Museum Acrylic® glazing. Frederick Wallace, Senior Conservator on the museum's staff and a Professional Associate member of the American Institute for Conservation, will treat the painting and supervise the reframing.

The Newark Museum will conserve and protect two of their most popular works of art, Mary Cassatt's Jenny Cassatt with her Son, Gardener, and Marsden Hartley's Still Life - Calla Lilies. "Optium Museum Acrylic will play a major role in protecting both paintings while achieving the best viewing conditions for Museum visitors," said Felicity Campbell, a conservator in private practice in Cold Spring, New York, who will handle the treatment and creation of the housings using Optium Museum Acrylic.

We are very excited to be partnering with these institutions and conservators to make a difference in the protection and conservation of these great works of art and enhance the viewing experience for Museum visitors with Optium's anti-reflective properties. We are looking forward to supporting future conservation initiatives with our Tru Vue Optium Conservation Grant program.

Application deadlines are May 1 and November 1.

Click on the link below for the guidelines and application form.

OptiumGrantForm.pdf