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Hello,

I interned at a museum which would have an annual members vote for a new acquisition. There would be four pieces selected by the accessions committee, and then members would vote one into the collection. Images would be mailed out about a month before a members-only private event, and then at the event votes would be cast. Voting would close about 30 minutes before the curator's and director's presentations, allowing time to count votes and make the announcement of which piece was going to be purchased and accessioned. Good luck! New procedures can be exciting but working out the kinks can be intimidating :)

Dani Trynoski

Seeking opportunities in museums and heritage management in the Inland Empire, California

On Tue, Jun 24, 2014 at 12:17 PM, Megan D Valentine (mdvlntn1) <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

Dear Museum Listers,

I am the curator/registrar of a contemporary art museum in Louisiana. We are trying to start a collectors’ circle group for our museum in order to help expand our collection. As we have never had one and none of our staff has worked anywhere that has, we don’t have a lot of previous experience with something like this. In your opinion, what has and hasn’t worked in a collectors’ circle?

We want it to be a small group of collectors who donate an amount in addition to their membership cost which will be earmarked specifically for collections acquisitions. They will be involved in some aspects of acquisitions, but not all, as we already have a collections committee. We hope they will ultimately choose which piece(s) we purchase for the museum with the funds that they donate.

Any recommendations or advice would be greatly appreciated!

Megan Valentine

Curator/Registrar

Alexandria Museum of Art

933 Second Street, Alexandria, LA 71301

(318) 443-3458

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