MUSEUMS COUNCIL OF NEW YORK CITY


                   MEETING NOTICE

Place:    National Museum of the American Indian
          The Heye Center - 1 Bowling Green  (see below for directions)
          825-6920

Date:     Thursday, December 12, 1996

Time:     5:30-8:00 p.m.  We must be out of the museum at 8: be prompt!

   The National Museum of the American Indian presents a new look at
   Native American peoples and cultures through innovative exhibitions
   and public programs.

   John Hayworth, Deputy Director for Public Programs, will welcome us
   and speak about the museum during a wine reception.  We will then
   visit the new exhibition, Woven by the Grandmothers, of 44 rare
   wearing blankets, woven between about 1825 and 1880, an exhibit of
   contemporary Navajo weaving, and the Resource Center.  Assistant
   Curator of North American Ethnology, Eulalie Bonar will guide our
   tour.  A buffet dinner and the Museums Council business meeting will
   follow.

   Subway: East Side IRT, #4 and 5; Whitehall St. station, BMY N & R,
   South Ferry station of west side IRT, #1 and 9.  Parking: Enter from
   ground level, closest to State Street and Battery Park.

   Please send a check in advance of the meeting made out to The Museums
   Council of New York for $25 for each person attending.  Add $5 for
   each bus reservation.  Mail to:

   Amy Fischetti,  Queens County Farm Museum, 73-50 Little Neck Parkway,
   Floral Park, NY 11004.

   If your check will not arrive in time please call Amy at (718)
   347-3276.  If you make a reservation by phone and do not attend, you
   must still reimburse the Council.

   Please include a note with your name, and the institution that you
   represent.

   The Museums Council of New York is an informal membership
   association that was founded in 1930, and represents virtually all of
   New York City's not-for-profit museums.  We gather several times a
   year to visit New York's museums -- both well-known and obscure -- and
   have curator's tours, directors tours, and dinner.  It is a wonderful
   opportunity to meet your colleagues in a casual but focused setting.
   Participants include all levels and aspects of the museum profession,
   including board members and directors, development, marketing,
   curatorial, educational, business, and operations staff.

   Until recently, participation has been limited to those affiliated
   with member institutions.  We have decided, on a trial basis, to open
   the meetings to people working in allied professions (from executive
   recruiters to exhibition designers); Museums Studies and Arts
   Administration students; and museum staff from other cities.

   These meetings are great, and I hope that you will join us.

   Please feel free to contact me by email, or Amy by phone if you have
   any questions.

   Eric Siegel
   Chairman,
   The Museums Council of New York
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