Effigy Mounds国家纪念地获350万美元捐赠：Iowa游客中心将设新展陈与20分钟影片，2029年夏季开放
国家公园基金会（NPF）宣布，位于 Iowa 州 Harpers Ferry 的 Effigy Mounds 国家纪念地获得350万美元慈善捐赠，用于其翻新后的游客中心设置新展陈并制作一部教育影片。捐赠由 Helmsley 慈善信托（The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust）出资300万美元、Lilly Endowment 出资50万美元组成，翻新后的游客中心预计2029年夏季开放。
据基金会介绍，新展陈与影片将由国家公园管理局（NPS）、当地社区以及与该纪念地相关联的20个部落民族共同参与讲述，呈现这处遗址的文化遗产及其精神、地质、考古与历史意义。新影片长20分钟，采用高清制作，配开放式字幕与音频描述，并由部落代表发声，旨在支持与历史上常被误述或遗漏的部落民族修复关系。基金会首席项目官 Mike Reynolds 表示，翻新后的游客中心将给游客一个亲切、无障碍的起点，让每位走进大门的访客都能通过相关部落民族的声音了解这片土地与历史。纪念地负责人 Susan Snow 表示，新展陈与教育材料将帮助公园与相关部落民族一道，向游客分享纪念地丰富的历史与文化意义。
游客中心建筑本体的修复由《大美国户外法案》遗产修复基金出资，将改善建筑布局、无障碍设施与设备系统，并处理影响博物馆藏品与室内空气质量的潮湿问题；停车场改善工程另由联邦公路管理局资金支持。Helmsley 慈善信托受托人 Walter Panzirer 表示，Effigy Mounds 具有深厚的文化、历史与精神意义，其故事值得以应有的深度、诚实与尊重来讲述。Lilly Endowment 的50万美元系经其「宗教与文化机构计划」批准。
Effigy Mounds 国家纪念地位于 Upper Mississippi River Valley，保存着美国中西部原住民建造的土丘杰作：全园面积2526英亩，共有200多座史前土丘，其中31座为鸟、熊、鹿、野牛、猞猁、龟与水精灵等动物形象的肖形丘。纪念地1949年设立，对20个相关部落民族而言，这些土丘不只是考古与科学研究对象，更是彼此相连的文化与精神圣地。
Effigy Mounds National Monument Receives $3.5 Million for Visitor Center Exhibits and Film: Renovated Iowa Center to Open in Summer 2029
The National Park Foundation (NPF) has announced $3.5 million in philanthropic support for new exhibits and an educational film at the revitalized visitor center at Effigy Mounds National Monument in Harpers Ferry, Iowa. The funding consists of a $3 million grant from The Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust and a $500,000 grant from Lilly Endowment Inc. The renovated visitor center is expected to open in summer 2029.
Through the exhibits and film, the National Park Service (NPS), the local community and the 20 tribal nations affiliated with the monument will work together on a truthful account of the site's cultural heritage, alongside its spiritual, geological, archaeological and historic significance. The new 20-minute film, produced in high definition with open captions and audio description, will feature the voices of tribal representatives and support ongoing work to build relationships and further healing with tribal nations whose history and perspectives have too often been misrepresented or left out. Mike Reynolds, the foundation's Chief Program Officer, said the renovated visitor center will give people a welcoming, accessible place to begin their visit, with new exhibits and a new park film sharing the story of the park through the voices of affiliated Tribal Nations. Susan Snow, the monument's superintendent, said the new exhibits and educational materials will help the park share the monument's rich history and cultural significance, working with its affiliated tribal nations to enhance the visitor experience.
The rehabilitation of the visitor center building itself is funded by the Great American Outdoors Act Legacy Restoration Fund. It will improve the building's layout, accessibility and systems, and address moisture problems affecting the museum collection and indoor air quality. Federal Highway Administration funds are also supporting a parking lot improvement project. Walter Panzirer, a trustee of the Helmsley Charitable Trust, said Effigy Mounds is a place of profound cultural, historical and spiritual significance whose story deserves to be told with depth, honesty and respect. Lilly Endowment's grant was approved through its Religion and Cultural Institutions Initiative.
Effigy Mounds National Monument, in the Upper Mississippi River Valley, preserves outstanding examples of mounds built by Indigenous peoples of the American Midwest. The 2,526-acre monument protects more than 200 prehistoric mounds, 31 of them effigies shaped like birds, bears, deer, bison, lynx, turtles and water spirits. Established in 1949, the monument is, for the 20 tribal nations affiliated with it, more than a site for archaeological and scientific study: the mounds are places of interconnected cultural and spiritual significance.
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