Endangered Culture
Arcadia works to preserve near extinct languages, rare historical archives and museum quality artefacts.
Current grants include:
Over the last two decades libraries and archives around the world have invested significant amounts of time and money in digitising collections and cr...
The Hill Museum & Manuscript Library was founded by the College of Saint Benedict and Saint John's University in 1965. Its mission is to preserve...
Arcadia has awarded The Einstein Papers Project a repeat grant of $45,000, which will go towards translation costs and research. The grant will be pai...
Arcadia is supporting a new National Life Stories oral history programme about Britain’s scientific endeavours in the 20th century.
Established in 198...
A three-year grant from Arcadia is funding TARA’s archive and digital image centre, which is at the heart of the organisation’s work to protect Africa...
The UCLA Library has been awarded a $5 million grant from Arcadia
The grant will be used to help the library maintain its collection of historic manus...
The Early Manuscripts Electronic Library is research organisation based in San Pedro, California. Its mission is to use digital technologies to preser...
Arcadia has awarded Yale University Library a grant of $5 million dollars to be paid from 2009 to 2013 in $1 million instalments.
The grant will allow...
We have offered a grant to Harvard University Library, $5 million to be paid over five years starting in 2009.
This grant, similar to those we have ma...
ACU is using this grant to assess the digital information resource needs in African universities.
The schemes and programmes already available to Afri...
Arcadia’s fourth grant continues to support The Wende Museum’s bid to create the world’s best collection of Cold War artefacts.
The Wende Museum is re...
Arcadia’s first grant, made out in 2005, supported the publication of Professor Joseph Dan’s multi-volume history of Jewish mysticism. The grant enabl...
Arcadia has awarded online encyclopedia Wikipedia a donation of $192,000.
Launched in 2001 by Jimmy Wales and Larry Sanger, Wikipedia is the largest a...
Ithaka is a non-profit organisation which promotes innovation in higher education by helping pioneering initiatives thrive. Aluka was launched in 2003...
In 2007, we granted $500,000 to UCLA as a personal research grant for Professor Jesse Byock, and to support research for the Mosfell Archaeological Pr...
Our grant to The Einstein Papers Project at the California Institute of Technology will help publish The Collected Papers of Albert Einstein, (1879-19...
In 2006, we granted $500,000 to The Trust for African Rock Art (TARA) to help preserve and raise awareness of endangered African rock art. TARA survey...
Arcadia has committed $18.0 million to protect and disseminate historical records of pre-industrial societies.
As globalisation accelerates, these r...
In 2006, we granted $1.8 million to the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford University. The Ashmolean Museum houses important works of art and archaeology and...
Our grant to the Wende Museum in 2004 supports its preservation of important Soviet era artefacts.
The Museum was founded in 2002 in Los Angeles. It...
We granted $5.0 million to Harvard University Library to extend its Open Collections Programme (OCP). The Programme was established in 2002 and makes...
In 2002, Arcadia created the Hans Rausing Endangered Languages Programme at SOAS. It funds fieldwork, training and archiving to record near-extinct la...
We granted $0.9 million over three years to the Linnean Society of London to help it create digital images of all its collections (the CARLS project)....
In 2002, we contributed $7.9 million to the Courtauld Institute's endowment fund. This helped it to attain the financial independence it needed to pre...
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