National Park Service scrubs Boston LGBTQ+ history in quiet purge of websiteBoston Globe … Sebastian Belfanti, executive director of The West End Museum, isn’t directly tied to the NPS Boston changes. But he knows the precedent its actions might set for his work, which focuses on the many immigrants, people of color, and LGBTQ+ who once…
Beacon Hill Museums Face Loss of Federal $sBoston Guardian … A three-year, $500,000 IMLS grant to the Boston Museum of African American History (MAAH) has been cut two years short, amounting to an expected loss of $340,000. In its first year, the grant was used to hire additional staff and expand educational programming. At the…
Mass. Museum of African American History among institutions to lose federal funding, officials sayBoston Globe The state’s leading Black history museum has learned it will lose nearly half a million dollars in federal funding after the Trump administration said it would dismantle the federal agency that approved the grants, museum officials said. The Museum of…
Organizations Lose Pivotal Grants as DOGE Takes Axe to Humanities AgencyHyperallergic … The West End Museum in Boston was informed yesterday of the termination of its $25,000 NEH grant, announced in January, to pursue explore LGBTQ+ presence and activism in the historic neighborhood. The museum’s origins date back to the displacement of residents from the ethnically diverse…
Trump executive order shakes cultural organizations: ‘There’s a lot that we just don’t know’Boston Globe … Any potential loss of funding would be particularly hard for smaller organizations, some of which rely on IMLS grants to finance staff positions or implement growth-related programs. Boston’s West End Museum received a $75,000 grant last year, a sizable…
An art competition and show celebrating the trees of the West End.
West End Community Clean-Up – April 26th at Thoreau Path Arboretum.
Opening reception for The West End Museum’s new exhibit ‘An Illusion of Freedom’ Set for Feb. 27Beacon Hill Times In 1641, Massachusetts became the first of England’s colonies in North America to legalize slavery. After Massachusetts abolished slavery in 1783, Boston became known as a safe haven for freedom-seeking slaves. However, Southern slave-holding states, fearing…
West End Museum Faces Uncertainty amid New Administration’s DirectivesThe Boston Sun Like museums and other institutions across the nation that depend on federal funding, The West End Museum now finds itself in a challenging position with the uncertainty surrounding the flurry of Executive Orders that President Trump signed immediately upon his return to the White…
‘A huge shock to the system’: Mass. arts and culture leaders react to Trump order to pause federal fundingBoston Globe Two weeks ago, Sebastian Belfanti was ecstatic. The West End Museum, where Belfanti is executive director, had been selected to receive a federal grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities in 2025. The $25,000 sum…