MEETING NOTICE
                   THE MUSEUMS COUNCIL OF NYC

The Museums Council will hold its next meeting on Thursday, May
22, 1997 at The Jewish Museum, 1109 Fifth Avenue at 92nd Street
(or so).  The meeting will begin with a wine reception at 5:30
PM.  Heidi Zuckerman, the coordinating curator of the new
exhibition Points of Entry, will give a guided tour and gallery
talk at 6:00 PM.  Dinner and the very short Museums Council
business meeting will be at 7:30 PM.

Points of Entry includes over 250 photographs from the mid-19th
century to the present, which examine the various issues of
immigration to the US: its history, the experiences of those who
came as refugees or unwillingly, and the idea of America as a
melting pot.  The Museum's permanent galleries will also be open
for viewing.


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