For immediate release
1 February 1995
Contact: Kristen Overbeck, NIC, 202-625-1495
Workshop Will Show How To Augment Fund Raising Using Collections Care
As federal funds for cultural institutions are increasingly threatened
in the new political climate, museums must turn to the private sector
and state and local governments for more support. So the National
Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property (NIC) and the
Development and Membership Committee (DAM) of the American Association
of Museums (AAM) are sponsoring a workshop to explore how museums can
target these sources by making a fund-raising case using collections
care.
Capitalizing on Collections Care, a one-day workshop, will demonstrate
how museums can creatively incorporate collections care, conservation
and preservation into fund-raising activities. Collections care can be
an effective tool for raising money and invigorating a fund-raising
program. Both the collections care program and the museum in general
will benefit from these new methods.
Highlights of the program include:
o a keynote address by Arthur W. Schultz, museum trustee and former
chair of the National Committee to Save America's Cultural Collections;
o a panel on successful collections care fund-raising strategies at
several museums;
o a case study of the fund-raising-collections care partnership at the
Detroit Institute of Arts;
o a panel of foundation representatives sharing their perspectives on
the usefulness of collections care in funding proposals; and
o a speaker on an entrepreneurial approach to collections care.
The workshop is scheduled immediately before the American Association of
Museums Annual Meeting on 20 May 1995 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. at
the Philadelphia Marriott Hotel. Registration is $100, with discounts
offered for DAM members and additional registrations from an
institution.
The National Institute for Conservation of Cultural Property serves as a
forum for conservation and preservation activities. Through its
Increasing Funds for Collections Care Project, NIC sponsors workshops to
teach collecting institutions how to use collections care, conservation
and preservation for fund raising.
The Development and Membership Committee is a standing professional
committee of the American Association of Museums with more than 500
members. The committee publishes a quarterly newsletter and sponsors
programs at regional and national museum association meetings.
For more information please contact:
Kristen Overbeck
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National Institute for the Conservation of Cultural Property
3299 K Street, NW
Suite 602
Washington, DC 20007
tel : 202-625-1495
fax: 202-625-1485