I am interested in contacting people with specific interest in Museum Membership/Friends groups. Background: We are a smallish membership group (12,500 members) facing many challenges. We have recently changed from an incorporated independent Friends group to an internal part of the Marketing Department. We have also closed a major campus of our organisation, and are in the planning stages for two new Museums (one to be opened next year, the other in 2000). At present we have a Science & Technology Museum, an alliance agreement with a regional Wool Museum and have reciprocal rights at major interstate museums. I would be interested in finding out more about your membership group and discussing such issues as support given, membership retention, programming, relationship between members/volunteers, fund raising and anything else that is of concern/interest to people running these organisations. Look forward to hearing from you! Colleen Wendt Acting Members Manager Museum Victoria.