Poole Museum Foundation
13th April 2018
Currently celebrating its first anniversary, Poole Museum Foundation is the charity dedicated to supporting and developing Poole Museums. Recent progress has been rapid and includes several newsworthy milestones, including the brand new museum membership scheme, a flamboyant fundraiser, and some new boxes.
Poole Museum Foundation’s new membership scheme is an easy and cheap way to support the charity – ‘The Future of Poole’s Past’ - It is hoped it will also serve to galvanise loyalty among supporters and inspire more people to visit the Museum more often. Online sign-up is available at http://poolemuseum.co.uk/support-us/
Members get a variety of benefits, including discounts in the Museum shop and café, exclusive private events, exhibition previews, free entry to Dorset County Museum and Wiltshire Museum, half-price entry to The Salisbury Museum, and more.
Members and non-members alike are invited to welcome this summer’s major exhibition, Augustus John: Drawn from Life, by attending Poole Museum Foundation’s celebratory dinner on 5th June at the Sandbanks Hotel. There is limited availability and the cost of pre-booked tickets includes welcome drinks, three course meal, coffee, live music, dinner speeches, an audio-visual-virtual taste of the exhibition, and more.
Augustus John was arguably the second-most-famous artist in the world after Picasso and his subjects included W B Yeats, Lawrence of Arabia, and Thomas Hardy. Dinner guests are invited to dress in bohemian style, as John himself would have.
Poole Museum Foundation is taking over responsibility for donations fundraising at Poole Museum and it is doing so in style, thanks to a Heritage Lottery Fund grant. The Museum will soon be fitted out with attractive new donation boxes—including ones capable of taking contactless donations from debit/credit cards and from Apple Pay or Google Pay. The future is truly here!
Poole Museum Foundation is also using this time to implement Gift Aid at the Museum, which allows the government to top up donations by 25 percent at no extra cost to the museum visitor.
