Bruce Museum

Purpose: Supporting Lifelong Learning The Bruce museum's mission is to promote the understanding of art and science to enrich the lives of all people. Since the museum reopened in 1993, it has doubled its annual attendance to more than 100,000 visitors and has become a major cultural resource in the Greenwich, Connecticut, area. The museum will expand to engage middle school and high school students, thus actively increasing the number of students who are exposed to museum programs. In this project, the museum will increase the scope of its Neighborhood Collaborative Initiative, building on aspects defined by a pilot program to attract middle school children. The grant will be used to support increased costs for advertising, transportation, staff, and materials for the expanded program. Creating access to the Neighborhood Collaborative for at-risk children in their early teens will engage a constituency that is traditionally difficult to include in cultural activities. Making the Neighborhood Collaborative exciting and interesting to middle school students will underscore the museum's commitment to lifelong learning-in strengthening this facet of the program, the Bruce Museum will increase its capacity to offer exceptional programming for students at every level of their educational development.