DECEMBER 10, 2021 - BRIDGTON, ME – The Rufus Porter Museum of Art and Ingenuity in Bridgton has been awarded two grants to provide scholarship funds to area children and to continue restoration efforts on its museum campus.
The museum has received a $3,000 grant from the George A. Ramlose Foundation, Inc. that will enable twenty-three Cumberland County low-income children (K-6th grade) to attend Camp Invention®, a program of the National Inventors Hall of Fame®. This annual summer camp will again be held at Stevens Brook Elementary School in Bridgton in the summer of 2022. The museum is proud to be a continued sponsor of this enriching program for area youth.
The museum is also pleased to announce that it has been awarded a 2021 Historic New England Herbert and Louise Whitney Fund Community Preservation Grant of $1,250. This grant supports paint and plaster restoration in the Nathan Church House, one of the oldest buildings in Bridgton. Each year, Historic New England (HNE) awards one Herbert and Louise Whitney Fund Community Preservation Grant to a small to medium-size heritage preservation organization in each New England state. This year, HNE had grant proposals from forty organizations doing creative and inclusive projects to advance understanding of the full stories of their communities’ people, places, and history.
