Documents/NEH/1: Knowledge and Understanding/1.4: Lifelong Learning

1.4: Lifelong Learning

Provide opportunities for Americans to engage in lifelong learning in the humanities.

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Strategies: Support interpretive exhibitions and educational materials at museums and historical organizations that convey significant humanities themes and topics to public audiences Support significant projects and programs that interpret the humanities collections of libraries and archives and circulate those projects to libraries throughout the nation. Support substantive media presentations that advance public understanding of the humanities. Support projects that use creative formats and diverse venues to provide opportunities for lifelong learning in the humanities. Support local, regional, and national projects that encourage audiences to explore significant events and ideas in the nation's history and culture, especially through the interpretation of America's historic places.. Support the use of digital technologies to convey the humanities to the American public. Extend the Endowment's reach by building the capacity of smaller institutions to implement humanities projects through consultation with outside experts. Circulate smaller versions of NEH-funded, high quality interpretative exhibitions to small- and mid-sized museums.

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