The next meeting of the Museums Council of New York City will be on
   Thursday March 13, 1997 at The New York Historical Society.  You've
   been reading about it, now join your colleagues in the museum
   community for what should be an engaging evening.

   The meeting will begin at 5:30, with a reception and greeting by Betsy
   Gotbaum, the Society's Executive Director.  At 6:15, Jack Rutland, the
   Director of Exhibitions and Collections will lead a tour of the
   exhibition Audubon in New York: A Spring Celebration, featuring 150
   original watercolors by JJ Audubon originally created for Birds of
   America.  This exhibition (from the Society's collection, I'm pretty
   sure) includes many of the pictures that were recently toured around
   America over the past three years.  Then, there will be a buffet
   supper at 7:00.

   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, director's tours, drinks, 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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