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IMLS grant supports overhaul of Gallery 2 at South Carolina Military Museum
Summary
Curators say an IMLS grant funded a near-complete renovation of Gallery 2, including widened entrances and a new exhibit on MREs and chaplaincy as part of a multi-year project.
Chris Melka, curator of exhibits, said the museum received an IMLS grant to support extensive work in Gallery 2 and described a near-complete "stem to stern redo" focused on daily life in service. "We were fortunate enough to receive an IMLS grant for a lot of our Gallery 2 projects," Melka said (Chris Melka, curator of exhibits).
Melka outlined that widened doorways now make gallery exhibits easier to find and that the museum is developing a three‑year exhibit on food and chaplaincy, described in the transcript as "food for the body and food for the soul." The curators said Gallery 3 will remain the rotating gallery space (rotations about every six months), while Gallery 2 will house the larger, grant-funded installations. The article notes the museum’s stated focus on visitor accessibility and interpretive storytelling rather than operational details or procurement costs, which were not specified in the conversation.
