Grant to help with restoration of GAR Memorial Museum

The Aurora Public Art Commission has received a Kane County Riverboat Grant of $46,000, which was awarded to the Grand Army of the Republic Memorial Museum, Post 20, to pay for the restoration of existing cabinets and replication of additional historic cabinets in the museum.

The cases will be designed for rotating exhibits of GAR artifacts and for hidden storage of small, delicate artifacts. The museum is located in downtown Aurora. The Public Art Commission expects to start work on the project by the end of this year.