DAR MUSEUM OUTREACH COMMITTEE
“WHAT CAN MY CHAPTER DO FOR THE DAR MUSEUM?”
As this year winds down and you prepare plans for your Chapter’s next term I encourage you to include the DAR Museum on your agenda. Donations to DAR Museum Funds directly help achieve the Museum’s mission of collecting, preserving and exhibiting. To donate to the Friends of the DAR Museum, the Museum Keeper and the Adopt-An-Object funds contact museum@dar.org or (202) 879-3241, or donate online.
Don’t forget about the Correspondent Docent Programs! CSSDAR’s wonderful Correspondent Docents are members who volunteer to promote the DAR Museum and its collections by providing public outreach through programs designed by the DAR Museum staff. There are programs on the Museum’s Period Rooms, wedding customs, toys, clock, quilts, women’s fashions and more. A list of Correspondent Docent Programs can be found on the NSDAR Museum Committee’s website www.members.dar.org. See the CSSDAR Speakers Staff – Program Resource Manual for an additional list of Programs available along with the names of CSSDAR Correspondent Docents www.members.californiadar.org. For more information contact State Vice Chair Correspondent Docent Virginia K. DeGregory.
Check out the Give-A-Book Program., which supports the DAR Museum’s reference library. See the online wish list for the current list of books requested by the Museum’s curators and educators. The Adopt-an-Object Program ensures the preservation of DAR Museum’s collection so future generations will continue to enjoy, study, and learn from our objects. Please check the online wish list to see the current objects available for adoption. For more information on these Programs, contact museum@dar.org or (202) 879-3241.
The Museum now has a new Portable Education Program (PEP) called Colonial Household. You can explore the skills needed to run a household during the 1700s. Can you identify different types of fabric, how about cooking tools? What about household expenses—can you calculate how much you would need for the year in pounds, shillings, and pence? For more information visit www.dar.org/museum or to book the Colonial Household program email museum@dar.org.
The DAR Museum Traveling Trunk Program is an exciting way to bring the DAR Museum to your chapter meetings. This trunk show is a fundraiser of the DAR Museum and offers members who live outside the DC area an opportunity to shop the DAR Museum Shop. To inquire about scheduling a Trunk Show for your chapter contact the DAR Museum Shop at (202) 879-3208 or email museumshop@dar.org
In DAR Service,
Lori Haney Clem,
State Chairman DAR Museum Outreach Committee