Please do not send unsolicited objects to the museum. We will contact you at an appropriate time to arrange shipping to the museum.
The MGMH has a formal decision-making procedure. Briefly, museum specialists will assess the object on the basis of various criteria and discuss their findings. A recommendation is then made to the director who, acting for the university, makes the final...
Federal law prevents the museum from providing identification services or appraisal values for donated items. Donors are responsible for appraisals of value. Please contact the regional branch of the Appraisers Association of America or the American...
Unfortunately, no. For year-end donations, all information must be submitted no later than December 1. The Museum has an extended winter holiday and will process last-minute donations early in the following year.
The legal mechanism for acquiring an object differs from case to case, depending on how the object is offered.
With a gift, as soon as the museum has decided to accept the donor’s offer, the donor will be provided with a Deed of Gift for signature. A...
The MGMH asks that all intellectual property rights that exist in the object be donated to the museum along with title to the object. This enables us to sell images, publish images on the web and in hard copy, and license reproduction for commercial...
Our practice and policy is to not accept gifts that come with strings attached. Donation conditions are often not in line with modern museum practices, may not reflect our constituencies’ expectations and needs, or are at odds with university guidelines...
Please send a letter or e-mail telling us about your object and whether you are offering it as a gift or as a bequest. It will help us greatly if you can enclose photographs or digital images. Please provide a description, including materials, date of...
Generally, the most time-consuming portion of the acquisition process is gathering information from the donor.
We may have to contact you several times before we have enough information for your object to be considered by the Collections Review Committee...