Dear Museum Friends,
Earlier this year, your Door County Maritime Museum received Core Document Verification from the American Alliance of Museums (AAM). This means that DCMM’s mission and vision statements, long-range strategic plan, collections care policy, emergency management plans, and other procedural documents meet the high professional standards of this country’s most elite museums and institutions.
This also means that DCMM is now fully on the path to becoming an Accredited Museum with AMM, which has been a strategic goal of our organization for the past quarter-century. We sometimes joke in the office that we are becoming a “grown-up” museum.
We are at an inflection point in the 55-year history of the Door County Maritime Museum, and we need your support more than ever. General operation funds keep Museum doors open to the public year-round in Sturgeon Bay, and help our staff operate three seasonal museum properties: the tug John Purves in Sturgeon Bay; the Cana Island Lighthouse in Baileys Harbor; and the Death’s Door Maritime Museum in Gills Rock.
For the fourth year in a row, we have a matching challenge for our year-end Anchor Appeal. Chris and Lori Harder, son and daughter-in-law of DCMM Emeritus Board Member and former Board President Bill Harder, have again provided a $20,000 matching gift, which will match every contribution to the Anchor Appeal.
For every dollar raised during our year-end fundraising campaign, Chris & Lori will generously match your contribution, dollar-for-dollar,
up to a total of $40,000. With the matching challenge, your $50 gift becomes $100. A $1000 gift becomes $2000. A $5 gift becomes $10.
Make your gift of support for DCMM today, in a manner that best fits your resources:
- A monetary gift, by cash, check or credit card;
- A Qualified Charitable Distribution from a traditional IRA;
- A gift from a Donor Advised Fund;
- A gift of stock or securities;
- Online at www.dcmm.org/donations-membership/donations.
If you wish to make an estate gift or bequest to the Door County Maritime Museum (OR if you already have), please contact Deputy Director & Development Manager Sam Perlman at sperlman@dcmm.org or 920-743-5958. We welcome and encourage supporters of all ages to make planned gifts to DCMM.
The coming year will bring an exciting new exhibit to the Baumgartner Gallery in Sturgeon Bay: Sentinels of the Door, celebrating the rich history of the US Coast Guard (and predecessor services) on the Door Peninsula. We will also have improvements to the shipwreck exhibits on display at the Death’s Door Maritime Museum in Gills Rock.
Thanks as always goes to the hardworking staff, Board of Directors and other volunteers of the Door County Maritime Museum for their passion, engagement and encouragement. Their enthusiasm for our work and support of our mission has an incredibly positive influence on the Museum and our guests.
Thank you, for supporting YOUR Door County Maritime Museum. Please donate today!