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Bob Moog Foundation announces National Endowment for the Humanities Grant


The Bob Moog Foundation has announced that it has been awarded a $10,000 grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) to enhance the preservation of several collections in the Bob Moog Foundation Archives. The grant is part of the NEH's Preservation Assistance Grants for Smaller Institutions program. The applications undergo careful consideration during the NEH review process, including peer review along with deliberation by the National Council on the Humanities and the Office of the Chair. This year the NEH received 139 applications and bestowed 57 awards. This is the second NEH grant awarded to support the Bob Moog Foundation Archives.

The funding provided will serve to enhance the preservation standards for hundreds of paper objects that are part of the archives' Dave VanKoevering Collection and Doug Babb Collection. It will also provide for augmented housing for over 130 items in the Objects Collection, which includes synthesizers, prototypes, and various clothing items.

The Bob Moog Foundation is grateful to receive this prestigious grant for our archives. The funding provided will allow us to procure much needed archival materials to properly house hundreds of unique items so that they can be preserved for generations to come.

Michelle Moog-Koussa, Executive Director of the Bob Moog Foundation
1973 Moog 1130 Percussion Controller

The Bob Moog Foundation Archives is a growing collection of over 10,000 historical items including vintage synthesizers, prototypes, schematics, photographs, catalogs, instruction manuals, desktop notebooks, correspondence, reel-to-reel tapes, and much more. The Foundation protects and preserves this collection to share with researchers, journalists, authors, museums, and with the visitors to its own Moogseum located in Asheville, NC.

Most recently items from the archives have been used or featured in Bob Moog's biography, Switched On: Bob Moog and the Synthesizer Revolution by Albert Glinsky, in The Minimoog Book by JoE Silva and published by Bjooks, in the "Music America: Iconic Objects from America's Music History" exhibit at the LBJ Presidential Library and the "Sonic Booms: How the Sound and Science of Technology Created Pop Music" exhibit at the PRAx Center for the Creative Arts at Oregon State University.

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