I can comment on the current situation facing the Stewart Museum. We received $90,000 to organize a traveling exhibit called “Normandy and the Americas, Five Hundred Years of Shared History”. The application was submitted in October 2005, and we received an answer in September 2006.
We had to submit an application by November 1 at the latest for the traveling part of the exhibit. Meanwhile we had not yet invested a penny, because we had not received any funding from the federal government. And I cannot spend this money or my institution's money on this project, because it will not be eligible.