"A Living Museum." The Museum Fund. PMA brochure, 1928

File — Box: 154, Folder: 3

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

From the Sub-Series:

These papers pertain to the museum's overall plans to raise funds and cultivate donors. As used in this subseries, the term "donor" refers to someone contributing money rather than objects. A contemporary term used in many of the papers refers to these contributions as "subscriptions." One of the projects included here is a 1929 survey. In an attempt to gain a profile of the current museum goer, the museum conducted personal interviews of 1,000 visitors, classifying each by occupation, including housewife and farmer. The index card, notes and clippings apparently served as Kimball's working files on prospective donors. Additional clippings, transferred from the Fiske Kimball Papers, were added. The remaining files contain printed material, mostly brochures, created by the museum and other institutions to promote various fundraising programs.

Dates

1928

Conditions Governing Access

The collection is open for research. Because of its fragile condition, the following item may only be consulted with permission of the Archivist: floor plan with annotations of PMA Gothic installations (in "Objects and related topics" series, "European decorative arts and arms and armor" subseries, "Rooms and architectural elements" sub-subseries, "England. Gothic installations at PMA, incl. Abergavenny, Wales" file).