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Association of Children's Museums (ACM) is an international not-for-profit professional service organization representing and advocating for the children's museum field. ACM's mission is to build the capacity of children's museums to serve as town squares for children and families where play inspires creativity and lifelong learning. Currently, ACM serves more than 500 museums, businesses and individuals.
Questions?
Contact Victoria Garvin
program officer, membership
Phone: 703.224.3100 x101
Fax: 703.224.3099

Museum Membership Benefits

Museum Member Benefits Checklist

GENERAL MUSEUM MEMBER BENEFITS

  • Unlimited logons/accounts for museum staff, volunteers and Board members to the ACM Members Only Web site. Click here to see a site map, or menu of resources, available on the ACM Members Only Web site.

  • Marketing opportunities, including member link on ACM Web site, access to ACM programs with grant makers and strategic partnerships

  • Access to ACM's Member's Only online resources such as ACM's Museum Membership Directory, The Case for Children's Museums and Vision Marketing Kit and the Grants and Awards Calendar

  • Eligibility for Reciprocal Membership Program (open museums only)

  • Annual subscription to Hand to Hand, plus reduced additional copy rate

  • Annual subscription to E-Forum, ACM's periodic electronic newsletter of member news and marketing opportunities

  • One free copy of the ACM Professional Standards Document

  • Free ACM statistical queries per year

    • Six free ACM statistical queries per year for open children's museums

    • Three free ACM statistical queries per year for emerging children's museums

  • One free job posting on the ACM Museum Jobs site (additional postings are for a fee at the member-rate)
  • Voting privileges (one vote per museum)

  • Discount on exhibit listings on the ACM Exhibits Marketplace site

  • Discount on registration fee for InterActivity

  • Eligibility for a five percent rebate off the total registration fee (minus events and food charges), when registering five or more staff members to the full InterActivity conference

  • Discount on ACM's publications

  • Eligibility for Promising Practice Awards

  • Eligibility for ACM Board and Committees

  • Networking with children's museums

SPONSOR MUSEUM BENEFITS

  • Recognition at InterActivity

  • Recognition in E-Forum, ACM's periodic electronic newsletter of member news and marketing opportunities

  • Recognition in the ACM Annual Report

  • Additional subscriptions to:
    • Hand to Hand, ACM's quarterly journal of museum trends

    • E-Forum

  • One free set of ACM Member mailing labels
  • All General Museum Member Benefits
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