As a SHOP: Discover unique gifts…
Want to show your support for the Kentucky Museum and get cool swag? Consider purchasing one of our publications.
Support the Kentucky Museum …by simply purchasing your specialty merchandise here:
https://www.wku.edu/kentuckymuseum/shop.php
Be a DONOR: Show that you care…
In 1928, the College Heights Foundation sent dime banks to schools across Kentucky. With the slogan, “A Dime Makes a Stock Holder,” the Kentucky Building – now home to the Kentucky Museum – was established as a place for “Kentuckians to know Kentucky.” You can help continue this legacy. While the Kentucky Museum receives financial support from Western Kentucky University for its maintenance and staffing needs, all of our exhibits and programs are funded by people like you.
Membership:
When you join the Kentucky Museum Friends, you join a community who love and support our community’s arts, history, and culture. For as little as $5 per year, you empower our mission and provide flexible funding to meet our greatest needs. Memberships at specified levels are offered: * Spirit Circle * Century Circle * Director’s Circle, and * President’s Circle.
Donations:
The Kentucky Museum relies on donors like you to support our exhibits, programs, and collections care. We have several ways you can make a gift, all of which are tax-deductible.
- Museum for All Fund: Museums should be free for all. Thanks to a three-year pilot grant, the Kentucky Museum has seen this point in action: in the first year, our visitation grew by 45% and continues to grow. Each day, we welcome more diverse visitors – across all demographics, both at the museum and in our virtual offerings – and this has emphasized the need for us to remain free in perpetuity. To address this need, the Kentucky Museum has established the Museum for All Fund. This program will provide revenue traditionally gathered through paid admission, which supports initiatives such as diversifying our collections, offering paid internships and graduate assistantships to students, ensuring equitable honorariums for guest curators and speakers, and ensure participation in our programs and events for underrepresented audiences.
- Object Donation: We Are Collecting! The Kentucky Museum is especially interested in acquiring: * historic clothing & textiles, especially * quilts * political memorabilia * toys & games, and fine * folk & decorative arts. The Kentucky Museum Collections Committee reviews potential donations to see if they meet our criteria for acceptance.
- Adopt-a-Quilt: The Quilt Collection is composed of more than 330 quilts and quilt-related textiles, with examples from the late 18th to early 21st century. The collection is among the most exhibited, researched, and utilized at the Museum, and is the spotlight of the much-anticipated exhibition, Stitches in Time. Quilts pose challenges in care and conservation. Their size and composition require the use of acid-free boxes and tissue to store them, ensuring they remain in the best possible condition. Will you help us preserve this nationally significant collection?
Volunteer: Volunteers needed in the Education, Exhibits, Collections, and Administrative departments. In broad terms, our volunteer opportunities are either single event, or ongoing (volunteer would work with unit head to establish a weekly volunteer schedule).
Support the Kentucky Museum …by simply joining, giving, and volunteering here:
https://www.wku.edu/kentuckymuseum/donate.php