The Phillips Collection

The Phillips stands for:

• open-mindedness and experimentation
• intellectual humility and social purpose
• accessibility and inspiration
• stewardship, integrity, and excellence
• serving all members of our community justly
• authenticity, connection, and strengthening civil society

As a VENUE: Host your event…

The Phillips Collection provides unparalleled opportunities for unforgettable entertaining. The Phillips Collection offers a boutique venue experience with access to its world-class art collection.Our galleries and spaces are ideal for dinners that seat up to 60 and standing receptions up to 250. The Mansbach Auditorium accommodates 180 and the Sant Seminar Room is perfect for a meeting with up to 30 participants. Personalization is our specialty, and we love to get creative with our clients! Recommended capacities and suitability of spaces are included. If your needs exceed these numbers or are not fully represented, we would be happy to discuss your event’s priorities and how the Phillips can fulfill them. Please enquire.The Phillips Collection is not available for dances, fundraisers, or political gatherings. Discounts are available for corporate partners. Hosting an event at the Phillips is an opportunity to gain exclusive access to the intimate galleries and take an inspirational tour through an extraordinary collection of more than 5,000 works of art collected over 100 years. Ten distinctive spaces are available:

• The Phillips House Music Room Capacity: Reception – 200 guests / Seated Dinner – Up to 100 guests
• The Phillips House Parlors Capacity: Reception – 80 guests / Seated Dinner – 50 guests
• Goh Annex and Sant Building Welcome Gallery Capacity: Reception – 100 guests / Seated Dinner – 60 guests
• Goh Annex and Sant Building Capacity: Auditorium Style – 180 guests
• Phillips Café Capacity: Reception – 60 guests / Seated Dinner – 45 guests
• Phillips Café and Courtyard Capacity: Reception – 200 guests / Seated Dinner – 80 guests
• Reception Area and Seminar Room Capacity: Reception – 100 guests / Seated – 60 guests
• Seminar Room Capacity: Meeting – 30 guests
• Art Workshop Capacity: Meeting – 30 guests
• UMD Center Capacity: Reception – 100 guests / Seated – 60 guests

Support the Phillips Collection… by simply booking your next special occasion here:

https://www.phillipscollection.org/about/rentals

As a SHOP: Discover unique gifts…

Museum Shop purchases directly support our exhibitions, programs, and community engagement. Rooted in the idea of innovation, collaboration, and powerful artistic expressions, The Phillips Collection is where the intimate and experimental meet. Every visitor can explore the most pressing ideas of our time through collaborations, innovation, empathy, and diverse voices. An integral department of The Phillips Collection, the Museum Shop operates as a non-profit retailer under section 501(c)3 of the Internal Revenue Code and is a key earned-revenue department of the museum. Revenue generated by the Museum Shop are deposited directly into the operating budgets of the museum, providing cultural engagement for our community and economic sustainability for our institution. Locally rooted, internationally engaged, we connect each visitor with the art and intimate experience of The Phillips Collection to inform, inspire, and engage. The Museum Shop endeavors to educate and serve our audiences with unique, quality products, significant publications, and exhibition-related merchandise that enable our visitors to “take home” a part of the museum for their enjoyment and ongoing memory of their experience. Merchandise is cataloged within these collections: * Phillips Publications & More * Home Décor * Fashion Accessories * Jewelry * Children * Books * Art Supplies & Notecards, and * Puzzles.

Support the Phillips Collection… by simply purchasing your specialty merchandise here:

https://shopphillipscollection.org/

As an EATERY: Food for thought…

Bread Furst Café at The Phillips Collection: (Museum admission not required to visit Bread Furst café.) Using local, organic ingredients, Bread Furst creates foods that change on a seasonal and sometimes whimsical basis. We work with local farmers and use only the freshest products available. In addition to the food and beverage menu, the café has a large assortment of pastries, fresh loaves of bread, a small grocery/gift section, and grab-and-go refrigerated items.

Support the Baltimore Museum of Art… by simply dining here:

https://www.phillipscollection.org/cafe

Be a DONOR: Show that you care…

The Phillips Collection serves tens of thousands of visitors, students, and teachers each year from the Washington, DC, area, throughout the United States, and around the world. The museum has a minimal endowment, and we receive less than 5% of our support from the government through competitive grants. By becoming a member or making a gift today you really are making a difference in your community and beyond.  Help The Phillips Collection be a “joy-giving, life-enhancing” force in our community.

Membership

With enhanced benefits and names inspired by Duncan Phillips, we offer the following membership categories: Friends, a dedicated level for young professionals called Contemporaries, and Circles.

• Friends Membership Levels include: * Individual * Dual Friend * Reciprical Friend * Creative Friend * Explorer Friend, and * Contemporaries. 
• Join the Circles: As leading advocates, Circles members bolster the museum’s dedication to excellence and help ensure a strong and dynamic future for the Phillips. Circles members provide critical support for the museum’s exceptional collection, pioneering initiatives in education and community outreach, and engaging public programs. Join this dedicated community of supporters who enjoy unique, behind-the-scenes experiences at the museum: * Patron * Insider Circle * Enthusiastic Circle * Collector Circle, and * Visionary Circle 

Donations

• Annual Fund Donation: You may customize your gifts. 
• Employer Matched Gifts: Double or even triple the impact of your donation to The Phillips Collection by participating in your employer’s matching gift program. Many employers will match your charitable contribution to the Phillips with an equal or higher amount if you or your spouse are an employee, retiree, or board member of a company. The Phillips Collection is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, an important qualification for many companies’ matching gifts programs. Check with your company to see if they have a matching gifts program and to request a matching gift form from your employer.
• Securities Gifts: The Phillips Collection is happy to work with you on making gifts of publicly traded securities that have appreciated in value. You can claim a charitable deduction for the full market value of the securities on the date the gift is made. Gifts of securities are not subject to the capital gains tax.
• IRA Rollover Gifts: The IRA rollover gift is a great way for people who qualify to support the causes they care about. IRA rollover gifts can make a significant difference, and The Phillips Collection welcomes such gifts to support our award-winning educational programs and acclaimed exhibitions.
• Patron and Circle Membership: As leading advocates, Patron and Circles members bolster the museum’s dedication to excellence and help ensure a strong and dynamic future for the Phillips. The Phillips Collection’s Patron and Circles members provide substantial, ongoing support to sustain our world-class collection, award-winning education programs and outreach, and engaging public programs. In addition to unlimited admission to the museum and to our routinely sold-out events, many special opportunities are extended to our most committed supporters.
• Program Support: Consider directing your philanthropic support of the Phillips to a specific program, initiative, or to the area of greatest need. While membership provides critical support for the museum, we encourage members and donors interested in supporting specific programs or initiatives to make a gift to an area of their choosing. Conversely, donors may give a 100% tax-deductible gift to our Annual Fund. Also known as general operating gifts, these contributions are allocated to immediate use in the museum’s area of greatest need. All gifts of all sizes, whether they are restricted or unrestricted, are greatly appreciated and help to ensure that the Phillips remains a vital institution in the DC community and beyond. We invite you to consider making a gift to one of our extraordinary programs, and help us share founder Duncan Phillips’s vision of an “intimate experiment station” for audiences of all ages both here at the museum and through activities beyond our walls.
• Gifts of Art:  The Phillips Collection owns nearly 6,000 works of art—more than double the size of our collection since the passing of our founder in 1966. We are continuously growing our collection of modern and contemporary art to further Duncan Phillips’s belief that “[p]ictures send us back to life and to other arts with the ability to see beauty all about us as we go on our accustomed ways. Such a quickening of perception is surely worth cultivating.” We look to private collectors to help us achieve this and are deeply grateful to all those who have made gifts of art to the Phillips.
• Legacy Gifts:  The Eliza Laughlin Society honors supporters who make planned gifts, both large and small, to The Phillips Collection through a bequest or other estate plan provision. Whatever your estate planning objectives, the Phillips can share with you gift planning ideas that will benefit you, while providing a lasting legacy for the museum.
• Foundation and Government Support: Grants from local and national foundations and government agencies provide critical support for museum operations and core Phillips activities, including special exhibitions, PK-12 education, community engagement, collections care and research, as well as diversity and inclusion initiatives. Grant funding makes so much possible at the museum on 21st street, Phillips@THEARC, the University of Maryland Center for Art and Knowledge, and online.
• Corporate Partnership:  Corporations play a critical role in supporting the Phillips. We invite you to become engaged with the museum and its wide circle of leaders, its many audiences, and the greater cultural community in Washington, DC. The Phillips works hand-in-hand with corporations to develop mutually beneficial partnerships.
• Volunteer: The Phillips’s volunteers contribute meaningfully to the museum and its visitors while gaining valuable insight into the works of a major arts institution. The Phillips seeks energetic individuals from diverse background. All Volunteers are asked to make a one-year commitment.

Support the Phillips Collection …by simply joining, giving, and volunteering here: 

https://www.phillipscollection.org/support