To promote the arts to protect and enrich New Hampshire's unique quality of life.
The Conservation License Plate Program, overseen by the New Hampshire State Council on the Arts, allocates grants for the conservation of publicly owned artworks and the artistic elements of publicly owned historic cultural facilities that host arts programming. This initiative also supports projects that enhance public access to significant artworks or arts documents, and that make historic cultural facilities and the arts programming hosted within them more accessible to the public. Funding originates from the proceeds of the "Moose Plate" Conservation License Plates, with the aim of promoting, conserving, and protecting New Hampshire's natural, cultural, and historic resources. The program encourages applications for various conservation-related projects, including the cleaning and preservation of Civil War memorials, conservation of historical artworks, acquisition of archival materials for historic recordings, and preservation of original stage designs. Applicants interested in these grants must select the Division (State Library, Division of Historical Resources, or State Arts Council) whose criteria and eligibility requirements best match their project activities and can only apply to one Division for a single project within any given fiscal year.