Pratt Museum Receives Homer Foundation Opportunity Fund Grant
Homer, Alaska (April 5, 2024) – Pratt Museum
The Pratt Museum, which is governed by The Homer Society of Natural History, Inc., is the Recipient of a $5,000 Homer Foundation Opportunity Fund Grant
The Pratt Museum is incredibly grateful to be the recipient of a $5,000 Homer Foundation Opportunity Fund Grant. This contribution will support History + Nature Come Alive!, an expanded offering of art, culture, and science based educational programming including exciting new curricula led by experienced, highly-qualified instructors, all of whom are active members of the Homer community. Support from the Homer Foundation will also allow the Museum to recruit a summer intern, an opportunity that will encourage a lifelong understanding and exploration of the natural environment and place-based human experience, and provide the intern with exposure to impactful engagement with Pratt Museum patrons and the many facets of museum work.
“We truly appreciate the continued support of the Homer Foundation as we strive to make measurable change in the community through our program of work,” said Pratt Museum Executive Director Patricia Relay
About the Pratt Museum The mission of the Pratt Museum is to strengthen relationships between people and place through stories relevant to Kachemak Bay. It fulfills its mission by facilitating engagement between community members and strengthening understandings of our shared place. Through these activities, the unique relationship between the people and places of Kachemak Bay will be sustained far into the future. The Museum is open Tuesday-Saturday from 11am to 4pm. Beginning May 5, 2024, the Museum will be open daily from 10am – 6pm. Visit the Pratt Museum at 379 Bartlett Street in Homer. Tel (907) 235-8635. More information is available at https://www.prattmuseum.org/.
Contact Whitney Harness, Visitor Services, Store and Communications Manager tel (907) 435-3328, email wharness@prattmuseum.org
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