{"id":59459,"date":"2025-12-12T20:02:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:02:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59459\/"},"modified":"2025-12-12T20:02:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-12T20:02:08","slug":"6-berks-historical-organizations-receive-pa-grants","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/59459\/","title":{"rendered":"6 Berks historical organizations receive PA grants"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Six museums and historical organizations in Berks County have been awarded state grants to support general operations.<\/p>\n<p>The Pennsylvania Historical &amp; Museum Commission announced Friday that it has awarded nearly $4 million in cultural and historical support grants to 177 eligible museums and official county historical societies from 59 Pennsylvania counties.<\/p>\n<p>The following in Berks received funding:<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Colebrookdale Railroad Preservation Trust, $40,000<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Foundation for the Reading Public Museum, $40,000<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 Hawk Mountain Sanctuary, $40,000<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Boyertown Museum of Historic Vehicles, $30,000<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Historical Society of Berks County, $25,000<\/p>\n<p>\u2022 The Gen. Carl Spaatz Regional USAAC Museum \u2014 $6,200<\/p>\n<p>Officials said the goal of the grant program is to strengthen Pennsylvania\u2019s museum community by supporting the general operations of eligible museums and official county historical societies that are not supported by other state agency funding programs.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Six museums and historical organizations in Berks County have been awarded state grants to support general operations. The&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":59460,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[349,182,139,28,128,130,129,706],"class_list":{"0":"post-59459","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-reading","8":"tag-berks-county","9":"tag-local-news","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-pennsylvania","12":"tag-reading-city","13":"tag-reading-city-headlines","14":"tag-reading-city-news","15":"tag-top-stories-reg"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59459","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59459"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59459\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/59460"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-pa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}