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Date: | Sun, 26 May 1996 15:19:00 PDT |
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Agreed!!! All musuems should have a Friends association, instead
of calling them . . . "the volunteers". They are part of the team,
part of the staff, and play a vital role in the functioning of any
musuem (even artichoke museums!!)
At 02:07 PM 5/26/96 GMT, you wrote:
>As a responsable for a small museum in Portugal, I think this subject has not
>been discussed enough.
>Goups of volunteers normaly called "Friends of the museum" or any similar
>denomination, play a very
>important role in the museum's activities. Anyway they must be treated with
>particular sensibility. They
>are volunteers, they do it for pleasure and to keep a good atmosphere in the
>group is of great importance.
>I am now trying to organize such a group and would be very nice to discuss this
>subject.Comments,
>suggestions of how to start and how to keep it going would be fantastic...
>
>Emanuel
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>
John Martinson
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Work: Fort Walla Walla Museum
755 Myra Rd
Walla Walla, WA 99364
(509) 525-7703 (Work)
Let's not forget our past
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