The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation has just launched, the Monuments Project, a five-year, quarter-billion-dollar commitment which will support efforts to recalibrate the assumed center of our national narratives to include those who have often been denied historical recognition. This work has taken on greater urgency at a moment of national reckoning with the power and influence of memorials and commemorative spaces.
The Monuments Project will transform the way our country’s histories are told in public spaces and ensure that future generations inherit a commemorative landscape that venerates and reflects the vast, rich complexity of the American story.
Grants made under the Monuments Project will fall under the following areas of activity:
- Fund new monuments, memorials, or historic storytelling spaces
- Contextualize existing monuments or memorials through installations, research, and education
- Relocate existing monuments or memorials