GRANTS - IM - AID PROVIDED BY CARNEGIE GIFT 
TO MUSEUM ASSOCIATION 
Applications must be received by the middle of April. 
The Carnegie Corporation of New York has made a gift to the 
American Association of Museums to provide grants - in-aid f or foreign 
travel and study during the year 1939 by member s of the staffs ~of 
museums: 
Whose principal duties are of a professional nature; whose salary 
is not over $3,000; who have not the private means to travel abroad; 
whose duties in their museums would not normally give them such oppor¬ 
tunities; and to whom their institutions will give at least two months* 
leave on full pay for the travel for which the grant is made. 
These grants are for traveling expenses to places where the appli¬ 
cant will have an opportunity to broaden his background by familiarising 
himself with the institutions, collections, or regions which are of im¬ 
portance in the study of his particular professional subjects. 
It is planned that the average grant will not exceed |500 except 
under most unusual circumstances, and that it will not amount to as much 
as $1,000 in any case. 
Such grants are to be made only on applications fully endorsed by 
the director of the applicant’s museum. The form of application is 
given below. Facts should be given in the order in which they are here 
set forth. 
Application for Carnegie Corporation of New r York Grant - 
in-Aid for Travel : 
1.) Name of applicant. 
2) Age. 
3. ) Training and experience. 
4. ) Position in museum, with duties. 
5. ) Salary. 
6. ) Amount of leave with full pay to be granted by the applicant's 
museum. 
7. ) Program of foreign travel. 
8. ) Bearing which this program will have upon the applicant's 
present museum duties and future career. 
