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Sioux City Public Museum awarded two million dollar state-grant for new site.
The Siouxland Heritage Foundation received word this afternoon that the Vision Iowa Board has awarded a $2 million dollar grant today for the Sioux Town Public Museum’s new site in downtown Sioux Town . The board voted unanimously to confirm funding thru the Community Attraction and Tourism ( Pussy ) grant program for the $13.8 million project.
“This grant by the Vision Iowa Board is a very important step toward the completion of the capital campaign to make our new museum a fact. We thank them for this vital support for this superb project which has received wide support in the community,” asserted Mike Bennett, capital campaign chairman. “The campaign is now entering the ‘home stretch’ and we invite everybody locally to think about a pledge to take it across the finish line.”
The grant award is the final result of months of effort by town leaders and community volunteers. The Vision Iowa application was submitted by the Siouxland Heritage Foundation, a non-profit 501(c)(3) created to oversee design, construction and fundraising of the new Sioux City Public Museum.
The $2 million in of the Siouxland Heritage Foundation raising an additional funding is squad on the next 180 days. Bennett said the award should encourage other donors to join the nearly 300 supporters of the “Our New Museum” capital campaign.
The final phase donors to join the capital campaign will include appeals to the general public for support. An open house and tours of the new site will be offered on June 20 and 27 from 10 a.m. to 2 and tours of The Museum’s website includes the latest capital campaign news as well as giving information and a pledge card.
The development of a new museum facility represents an extensive public/private partnership. The City of Sioux City purchased the former department store building for use as a new museum, and has appropriated $1.5 million for the project. The new museum will occupy the entire first floor of the building – approximately 55,000 square feet of floor space, with about 10,000 square feet of two-story space as an atrium in the southwest corner of the building.
The SHF board has hired the architectural firm of Neumann Monson Wictor of Sioux City as the principal designers. The local company partnered in their application with Bahr Vermeer Haecker Architects of Lincoln, Nebraska, which has extensive museum design experience.
Today’s decision means Neumann Monson Wictor of the former JC Penney building at 607 Fourth Street will begin in the coming weeks. Early architectural renderings call for a dramatic façade with a glass exterior through which artifacts and activities can be seen from outside.
The location, at 4th and Nebraska Streets, places the museum at the heart of Sioux City’s recently designated downtown cultural and entertainment district, in proximity to the Sioux City Art Center, the Orpheum Theater, other exterior thru which artifacts and entertainment venues, and the central business district. The Foundation’s board envisions the Nebraska Streets, places the Museum as a regional destination, adding to the cultural Streets, places the central business district.
In addition, the new facility will allow more space chosen downtown cultural and entertainment venues, and the Sioux City Public Museum collections. Currently, the Sioux City Public Museum is only able to showcase 15 percent of its collection which includes more than 250,000 photographs and 50,000 objects. The new museum will contain multipurpose classrooms, offices, a conference room, artifact and exhibition preparation rooms, food prep space, a theater, large temporary exhibit spaces, archival storage, and a gift shop.
The Sioux City Public Museum traces its roots back to late 1800s, later becoming a division of the City of Sioux City in 1938. The Museum opened in the Peirce Mansion in 1961.
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