WASHINGTON MUSEUM ASSOCIATION Museum Messenger ● Spring 2004
MUSEUM MESSENGER Volume 14 / Number 3 • Spring 2004
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WMA Board Nominations Sought ................................................ 3Lawnotes: Websites, Part 3 .......................................................... 41st Annual Museum Day .................................................................. 5WMA 2004 Annual Conference .................................................... 6Masthead images derived from the book "Washington – A Guide to the Evergreen State," compiled by workers of the Writer'sProgram of the Work Projects Administration, and sponsored by the Washington State Historical Society © 1941.
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WMA Awards & Conference Scholarships ................................ 6Washington State Museum Survey ................................................ 7Dates, Deadlines, & News From the Museum World ............ 8Regional News ................................................................................... 9-11
The 2004 WMA Conference is coming…June 9-11 at the Nordic Heritage Museum in Ballard.Save the dates now! You can’t miss this opportunity to learnnew museum techniques, debate new perspectives, enjoymuseum colleagues, and return to work professionally in-spired! Registration materials are available on the WMAwebsite, www.washingtonstatemuseums.org or [email protected].
Pre-Conference Workshop, Wed. June 9, from 9 am to 5 pmEmergency Preparedness and Response for Museum Collec-tions — Is your institution prepared for an emergency? Whatrisks do you face and who will respond?
Participants will develop a risk assessment documentand build or strengthen a response team for their institution.They will also respond to a mock emergency and carry outsalvage techniques.
Presented by the Balboa Art Conservation Center ofSan Diego with support from the NEH.$40 registration; open to 30 participants.
Lunch EntertainmentMaking Movies for Fun and ProfitWorking with the entertainment industry without losing
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Editor's Note:The WMA Museum Messenger is publishedquarterly by the Washington Museum Association,a 501(c)(3) federally recognized non-profitorganization consisting of institutions, businesses,and individuals whose mission it is to promoteincreased professionalism in and communicationamongst all museums within Washington State.All articles within this issue may be reproducedand circulated to staff with appropriate creditgiven to the Washington Museum Associationand the contributing author.
Officers:President: Barbara MoeCurator, Naval Undersea Museum, Keyport
Vice President: Chris Fiala ErlichIndependant Consultant, Gig Harbor
Secretary/Recording: Lynette MillerCurator, Washington State Historical Museum, Tacoma
Treasurer: John LarsonDirector, Polson Museum, Hoquiam
Directors:Erin BlackCurator, Kittitas County Historical Society, Ellensburg
Steve CrowellDirector, Paul H. Karshner Memorial Museum, Puyallup
Andy GranittoCurator of Exhibits, Yakima Valley Museum, Yakima
Pamela Kruse-BuckinghamAdministrator, Kitsap County Historical Society, Bremerton
Marsha RooneyCurator of History, Northwest Museum of Arts & Culture,Spokane
Ellen TerryCurator of Public Programs, Washington State HistoricalSociety, Tacoma
Gene WoodwickDirector, Ocean Shores Interpretive Center, Ocean Shores
Ex Officio and Designated Legal Council: RobertGruhn, Attorney at Law
Immediate Past-President: Karen Marshall
Washington State Heritage Resource CenterRepresentative: Garry Schalliol
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PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Barbara MoeCurator, Naval Undersea Museum
Museum Day, February 11, whata grand success. Governor Gary Lockeproclaimed Museum Day 2004, Sena-tor Jim Honeyford sponsored the Sen-ate Resolution, and Representative PatLantz the House Resolution. I wasprivileged to brag about all the goodwork museum professionals and volun-teers are accomplishing all around thestate when I addressed the LegislativeCaucus at 7:00 a.m. It was a bit earlyin the morning but the audience wasattentive and eager to learn about allyour successes as well as the areas ofneed. Many people took the opportu-nity to meet with their legislators dur-ing the next two hours, and at 10:00we rallied at Tivoli Fountain on theCapitol Campus. We weren’t sure how
many to expect, so the Board waspleased to see about 30 chilly, butbrave folks turn out. We used thetheme “Talking Up Museums” withwind-up, chattering-teeth toys. Dueto the coolness of the day, I wasn’t surewhether it was my teeth chattering orthe wind-up toys. A special thanks tothe WMA Board’s Legislative Advo-cates, Chris Erlich and Steve Crowell,for putting this all together. DerekValley, Director of the State CapitolMuseum also deserves recognition forall his behind-the-scenes effort. Myclosing comment to the LegislativeCaucus was “We’ll be back next year!”I hope you will join us. Collectively,we can make our voices heard.
In the last issue of History News,Winter 2004, Vol. 59, Carol Kammenmakes the following statement: “It isnot usually the problem of lack ofmoney that leads an organization todissolve. Rather, there are too fewpeople to do the work, and too fewpeople who care to come out to meet-ings and programs. The rest are leftshoring up an organization that is re-ally too heavy for so few shoulders.Consequently, some of these organiza-tions are beginning to decline in num-ber.” I encourage all WMA membersto read this article, “On Doing LocalHistory.” In the survey recently com-pleted by museums around the state,lack of funds was one of the top threeconcerns. I invite you to read the entirearticle, and we can continue dialoguefor solutions.
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your shirt, your sanity, or your orga-nizational integrity. Contrast theexperiences of the “Lady Washing-ton” in Pirates of the Caribbean: TheCurse of the Black Pearl and the “HMSRose” in Master and Commander.
Plenary SessionBig Business or Big Headache? His-torical Societies and Curation of Ar-chaeological Collections in Wash-ington State. Benefits, responsibili-ties, and challenges of accepting system-atic archaeological collections.
Breakout Sessions· Transporting Collections on a Low
Budget· WA State Essential AcademicLearning Requirements: Partneringwith Teachers· Education Kits· Washington Art Consortium· Building Cultural Facilities as aMechanism for Building Commu-nity· Institutional Change and Inter-pretive Exhibit Development· Digitizing Images· Building Community through Res-toration Projects: Street Clock· Painting Restoration· Building Museum Websites· Growing Operating Funds· Cultural Tourism· Interpretation Outside the Gal-lery· Personnel Relations· Heritage Capital Fund Projects
Events celebrating the conferencelocation and Nordic Heritage:· Reception at Burke Museum of
Natural History and Culture.· Evening Scandinavian Extrava-ganza: food, music, dance, livinghistory, film, art, educational pro-grams.· Lunches and Scandinavian Des-sert-making Demonstrations.
The Nordic Heritage Museumis located in Seattle’s Ballard neigh-borhood, a community well knownas home to Nordic immigrants pastand present. In addition to the
Ballard Locks, the neighborhood of-fers Scandinavian food shops, giftstores, and contemporary boutiquesand restaurants. During the confer-ence, Nordic Heritage Museum ex-hibits will include contemporary artby Norwegian-Danish artist RoyalNebeker (presented in collaborationwith the Lisa Harris Gallery) andlocal Nordic-American artists RandyJames and Libbie Masterson; as wellas an historical exploration of Jewishlife in Norway, The Wergeland Legacy:Jewish Life and Culture in Norwayand the locally produced exhibitResettlement of Displaced Jews in Nor-way after 1945.
Also featured are three floors ofpermanent exhibitions on the his-tory of Nordics in the Pacific North-west and Nordic folk arts. Discovercolorful textiles, cherished china,books and Bibles, woodworkingtools, photographs, and a myriad of
other treasures brought from the old coun-try to enrich life in a new land. Gathered inthe Museum’s five ethnic galleries, one foreach country, they illustrate the differencesand bonds linking Scandinavian people inthe Northwest and applaud their achieve-ments. Dedicated to collecting, preserving,and educating since its founding in 1980,the Nordic Heritage Museum is the onlymuseum in the United States to honor thelegacy of immigrants from the five Nordiccountries, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Fin-land, and Iceland.
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The Nordic Heritage Museum
CONFERENCE PREVIEW:
Washington Art Consortium:A Model For Collaboration
by Patty Relay, Program Coordinator
Over the last thirty years Virginia Wright has taken part in the developmentand supervision of the Washington Art Consortium. There are many reasonswhy museums, such as this model, find joint ownership attractive. Consortiumscan strengthen community partnerships and open up future possibilities that,on its own, an institution cannot afford. The Washington Art Consortium, thefirst organization of its type in the nation, is a unique partnership of seveninstitutions that agreed to work jointly to acquire a major collection of works onpaper and photographs by important American artists of the twentieth century.The Consortium was organized in 1975 by four Washington institutions which
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would have undivided interest in thecollection and sharing responsibility ofownership: the Western Gallery, West-ern Washington University,Bellingham; the Museum of Art, Wash-ington State University, Pullman; theTacoma Art Museum; and CheneyCowles Museum (now called the North-west Museum of Arts and Culture) ofthe Eastern Washington State Histori-cal Society in Spokane. Joining laterwere the Whatcom Museum of Historyand Art (1979), the Henry Gallery ofthe University of Washington (mid-1980s), and the Seattle Art Museum(1993).
Currently the Consortium holdsthree significant collections of 20th cen-tury art. The first two collections,Works on Paper: American Art 1945-1975 and American Photographs: 1970-1980, were acquired for the institu-tions through the Virginia Wright Fundand a matching grant from the Na-tional Endowment for the Arts. TheWorks on Paper: American Art 1945-1975 collection includes 97 works by52 of the period’s most noted artists.Today this collection remains a signifi-cant modern art resource in the region.The second collection, American Pho-tographs 1970-1980 features 184 worksby 31 of the period’s well known pho-tographers. Inaugurated in 1981, thiscollection has been exhibited through-out the state and in California andArizona. The third collection, a 1998gift from Richard and Margaret Aiken,focuses on American and Europeanartists from mid-century to the present.In several cases this collection of 23works features later works by some ofthe artists represented in the earliercollection, such as Jasper Johns, RobertRauschenberg, and Frank Stella. Be-cause it has only recently beenaccessioned by the consortium, theMary Margaret Aiken and Richard AikenCollection has had limited exposure.Combined the collections represent a‘Who’s Who’ of 20th century art, inwhich on its own an institution couldnot afford. The impact of these col-
laborative efforts has created a presti-gious resource of 20th century art, fromwhich the public will benefit.
Expanding Our AudienceThe Consortium also takes an ac-
tive role in encouraging collecting,study, and exhibition of art from theNorthwest, with emphasis on the de-velopment of modern art in the regionand the continuing contributions ofcontemporary artists. After first iden-tifying a common ground, the Consor-tium has moved on to discover deepermutual benefits. The Washington ArtConsortium is currently using theircollections in ways that are increas-ingly inventive and beneficial to thepublic. With their shared collections,the Washington Art Consortium is cre-ating a web-based database which willnot only engage a wider audience, butmake these collections, and those heldby the individual museums, availablefor research and scholarship. Madepossible with endowments from theKreielsheimer Remainder Fund andmatching funds from the Bagley &Virginia Wright Fund, the consortiumhas the ability to expand the bound-aries of the museums’ walls and indoing so enhance public knowledge of19th, 20th, & 21st century contempo-rary art from the Northwest and be-yond.
Defining Northwest Art & DatabaseDevelopment
Stage one of development was toidentify Northwest Art. In as much asthe essence of Northwest Art is cen-tered on the geographical location ofthe region, our first step in decidingwhat objects should be selected hasbeen based on delineating a workingdefinition of where the Northwest islocated. The general consensus is thatthe Pacific Northwest is the region thatencompasses the area North of the42nd parallel and the area West of theRockies. Another definition, accord-ing to the Library of Congress, forcataloguing purposes, is Oregon, Wash-ington, Idaho, parts of Montana,
By integrating diverse platforms,phase two addressed various questions.
What elements of information shouldthe database include? How specificshould the information be? Shouldthere be different levels of informationavailable? How will the initial infor-mation be gathered? Because eachinstitution maintains sensitive infor-mation in their database, security ofthe site has been the paramount issue.Given that every member utilizes adifferent platform to store informationcombined with the accepted workingdefinition of Northwest Art and con-cerns for copyright issues, mapping theinformation has been our first concern.
In anticipation of the final version,a working model has been imple-mented. Each member institution sent5 (or more) records, a sample of thePacific Northwest Art objects withintheir collection(s). . Ellen McDermott,Western Washington University’s Aca-demic Technology Specialist, took eachset of records and mapped thefields from those records to the North-west Art database fields. Intended tobe a simple proof of concept, the testmodel has set the stage for the finalweb-site.
Evaluation of CollaborationCreating an environment and set-
ting the stage for collaboration, main-taining momentum and achievinggoals, the Northwest Art web-baseddatabank has transformed theConsortium’s alliance to engage newaudiences, create access to new re-sources, and augment new perspec-tives. Expanding the boundaries ofeach museum and setting up a newdynamic with their audiences, the col-laborative process engaged by the Wash-ington Art Consortium generates pro-vocative relationships. Reaching out tobroader communities, the virtual cata-logue of Northwest art will surely be-come a precedent for future collabora-tive efforts.
Patty Relay, Program Coordinator for theWashington Art Consortium, will presenta session at the Washington MuseumAssociation Annual Conference, June 9-11, 2004 at the Nordic Heritage Mu-seum in Ballard.
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LAW NOTESby Robert Gruhn, Attorney
THE BOX OF STUFFI was talking to my friend Lisa Hill
Festa about a presentation I gave to herclass for future curators on the Un-claimed Property Act, RCW Chapter53.67. This is the Washington Statutethat established a mechanism for mu-seums to acquire title to items in thecollection for which there is no docu-mentation. How is it that museumsseem to be continually acquiring prop-erty for which there is no documenta-tion? A substantial part of the answerlies in the “Box of Stuff”. This is prob-ably the source of most of the itemsthat later are identified in the inven-tory as “found in the collection”
Here is a common scenario. Onecloudy day (remember I live in Se-attle), a guy comes into the museumand plops a Box of Stuff on theReceptionist’s Desk. “We just cleanedout Grandma’s attic and my wife thinkssome of this stuff may have historicvalue, so here it is. You can do whateveryou wish with it, but I do not wish tobe bothered by filling out any forms orsigning any papers and stuff like that”.Worse than that, the Box of Stuff maybe sitting on the doorstep when themuseum opens. What to do?
The museum could adopt a policynot to accept such material. However,experience has shown that there oftenis material in the box that does, indeed,have historic significance and it wouldbe a shame to have it go to the dump.
Whichever is done, it should bedone in accordance with a written policyadopted by the Board of Trustees aspart of the museum’s Collection Policyand written procedure, which imple-ments that policy. The objective is tobuild a paper trail to support the rightto make whatever disposition is madeof the stuff in the box.
The first person or persons whocome in contact with the box of stuffshould prepare a statement setting forthexactly what happened. This state-ment may be in the form of an affidavit,which is subscribed and sworn to be-fore a Notary Public, or may be in theform of a Declaration Under Penalty ofPerjury, in which the party making thestatement declares under penalty ofperjury that the statement is true. Eachone has the same legal effect. Each islike testimony in court. The affiant,like a witness, can only testify as towhat he or she did or what he or sheobserved being done, not about some-thing somebody told him or her hap-pened (hearsay). For example:
DECLARATION UNDERPENALTY OF PERJURY
My name is Janice Doe. I am avolunteer at the Pioneer Museum in Alpha,Washington. One of my duties is to act asReceptionist for the Museum. Every visitorto the Museum will come past the Recep-tion Desk.
This identifies the witness, her positionwith the Museum, and what duties sheperforms that gave her knowledge of theevent.
On Thursday, June 10, 2004, I wasacting as Receptionist for the Museum. Atabout 10:30 A.M., a man came to themuseum with a box, which he said con-tained things he thought the Museummight be interested in having. I thankedhim for the donation and asked him wherethe items in the box came from. Hisanswer was “My wife and I were cleaningout the garage and found this stuff, which
I think came from her grandmother’s at-tic”. He declined to give me his name oraddress.
I gave him a copy of the museum’spolicy with respect to donations of thiskind. I told him that we would inventorythe contents of the box and give him areceipt for the items that he could use tosupport a tax deduction if he would tell mewhere to send it. He said we need notbother, he doesn’t itemize. I said if hewould give me his name and his wife’sname, we would show a donated by cardeach time we displayed any item from thebox. He said he was not interested. I askedwhat he wanted done with any of thethings the museum did not want for itscollection. He said he didn’t care. He thensaid he was in a hurry and left.
This is what Janice could testify to if shewas in Court.
I declare under penalty of perjury thatthe foregoing statement is true and correctto the best of my knowledge and belief.—Janice Doe
The Policy statement given to this“donor” should state as a minimum:
1. That the contents of the box are anunconditional gift.
2. That the museum will inventorythe items as soon as practical.
3. That items will be divided into fourcategories:
a. Items that will be accessioned intothe collection.
b. Items that will be made availableto other museums.
c. Items that may be sold.d. Items that may be recycled or
disposed of as junk.
The person who finds the box ofstuff on the doorstep should prepare asimilar affidavit. Of course that personcannot report any conversation withthe “donor”. Instead they would statewhere they found the box of stuff andthat there were no indications that itwas not intended for the museum.
The Policy adopted by the Boardof Trustees will contain much moredetail, for example: who makes theinventory, the standards for decidingthe disposition of the items, and whodecides what will be accessioned into
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the collection, or be offered to other museums, whatwill be sold and how, and what will be otherwisedisposed of.
Items that do not fit in with the museum’scollection, but are of historic significance should beoffered to other museums. I believe that, as a matterof ethics, items of historic significance once held by amuseum in public trust should remain in the publictrust and should not be sold to private collectors.Items which are not of historic significance but whichhave value may be sold to private parties, dealers, thriftstores, the museum store or by the museum itself atperiodic auctions. However, in no event should anyitems be given or sold to an insider, i.e., a trustee, anofficer, employee, or volunteer. Such sale or gift wouldrepresent a conflict of interest since the insider wouldhave knowledge of the value of the item that isunavailable to the public. Further, a gift or sale to aninsider would violate the provisions of the InternalRevenue Code against benefits that inure to insiders.
Does this procedure guarantee clear title to themuseum? No, it does not. A spouse could appearclaiming that the items were community property andhe or she did not give consent to its disposition (Thisis why both spouses should always sign a deed of gift).I recommend that the museum secure an appraisal ofany items of other than nominal value to keep with therecords of the transaction. This will prevent thespouse coming in and claiming an inflated value for theobject. Also someone could appear and establish thatthe stuff in the box was stolen from him. Since a thiefcan never give good title, the person from whom thearticle was stolen may claim the stolen item fromwhomever has it. This is not limited to the stuff in thebox. This condition would obtain even if the museumhad a properly executed unconditional deed of giftfrom other than the original owner. I suggest that ifanything in the box of stuff appears to be of unusualvalue, the museum check with the local police to see ifthe item may have been reported as stolen.
If there are such policies in place and if theprocedures are being followed, the museum can putthe stuff from the box in the collection with confidencethat its title is as good as it can get. The museum thenwill not have to wait five years and go through theprocedures of the Unclaimed Property Act.
The procedures suggested herein are my ownsuggestion. If anyone already has procedures and/orhas any experiences in dealing with a box of stuff, Iwould like to hear from you and get a copy of yourprocedures. I am sure improvements can be made inwhat has been suggested here that may benefit allmuseums. My e-mail is [email protected].
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With a proclamation in hand declaring February 11th,2004 as “Museum Day” by Governor Gary Locke, individualsfrom the museum and cultural community came to the CapitalCampus to talk, listen and promote the good things thatmuseums and cultural institutions are doing all over the Stateof Washington. After listening to several interesting earlymorning Heritage Caucus presentations, including one fromour very own WMA President Barbara Moe on WMA’s firstMuseum Survey, several of the attending representatives madeappointments after the meeting to speak to their local electedofficials concerning various topics and concerns.
At around 10:00 a.m. on the 11th, many of the museumand cultural individuals made their way to the Tivoli Fountainto listen to WMA representatives and Museum Day speakers.With a wind-up chattering teeth in our hands (and some in ourmouths due to the somewhat cool conditions), representativesof Washington’s museums, historic homes and cultural organi-zations gathered around the fountain to celebrate and “talk up”Washington’s first annual Museum Day. These speakers“talked up” the impact of museums in Washington and howthey preserve and educate their communities on local andregional history. Following the fountain gathering, museumday people made their way to the Capital Museum and enjoyeda round table discussion and lunch with friends and colleagues.A fine day was had by all and discussion has already started fornext year’s activities (which will be held inside to avoid anyfurther chattering teeth jokes!).
The WMA wishes to thank Governor Locke for the Mu-seum Day proclamation and Senator Honeyford and Represen-tative Lantz for Senate and House Resolutions. Also thanks toLinda Moon, Derek Valley, Steve Crowell, Chris Erlich, andGarry Schalliol for their help and assistance in making MuseumDay 2004 a reality and success.
With this first Museum Day under our belts, we areplanning to be involved in Olympia to advocate for Washington’smuseums and cultural organizations for many years to come.Please join us and let’s get people “talking about museums andcultural institutions”!
MUSEUM DAY 2004We Talked Up Museums!
by Stephen Crowell
David Nicandri speaks at Museum Day in Olympia
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Many thanks to all of you who completed WMA’sWashington State Museum Survey. We mailed and emailed184 surveys to museums across the state, 92 of the surveyswere returned. Below you will find a summary of the surveyresults. We will be posting the survey results on our websitein the next month.
The survey provides a valuable sketch of our “average”museum; audience, collection, hours, governance, staff,etc. It will probably not come as a surprise, but about twothirds of our museums are small, not-for-profit, historicalmuseums or sites, and operating with an all-volunteer staffor a paid staff of 1-3 people. You’ll find more details in theresults below.
WMA will be using the survey information to deter-mine how we can best help museums across the state. Forexample, respondents overwhelmingly named their greatestneed as the necessitate for additional operating funds. The
WMA will address this need by offering correspondingsessions at the annual conference, as well as, investigatingvarious avenues in assisting museums with this concern. Aswe plan future activities and programs, we will be lookingat your additional needs and your comments about how wecan help. As you review the following results, you willdiscover information on various topics, such as salaries andlodging tax funds that may assist in future planning.
While analyzing the results of the survey, we realizedthere were questions we wished we would have asked, somewe wished we would have asked differently and others thatwe probably did not need to ask. We hope to repeat thissurvey next year, with a few changes. Let us know if thereare things about our State’s museums you would like toknow, and we will see about adding to the next survey. Ifyou have questions or comments please contact me [email protected].
WMA MUSEUM SURVEY RESULTSBy Chris Fiala Erlich, WMA Vice President
Top Four Needs⟨ Larger Operating Budget⟨ Board Development⟨ New/Improved Museum Facilities⟨ Higher Visitor FiguresNote: More operating funds was overwhelming listed as thegreatest need. The next three needs were virtually tied.
Audience (2002)Average Audience: 21,304Estimated Total Audience: 6,391,095Residents: 44%Schoolchildren: 18%Tourists: 34%Other: 2%
Collection HoldingsAverage Collection: 38,459Estimated Total Holdings: 11,537,572% museums without count of collection holding: 25%
Type of GovernancePrivate Nonprofit: 78%Municipal: 9%County: 4%Tribal: 2%State: 2%Federal: 1%Coll/Univ: 1%For Profit 1%Other 1%
Type of MuseumHistory Museum/Hist. Society: 57%Historic Home/Site: 12%Specialized Museum: 14%General Museum: 9%Art Museum: 2%Natural History/Anthropology: 1%Nature Center: 1%Children’s/youth Museum: 1%Aquarium: 1%
Operating Hours% of Museums Open Year Round: 66%Average Open Hours per Week: 26
Admission% museums that are free: 37%% museums that suggest donation: 21%% museums that charge admission: 42%Average Admission Fee: $3.53
Annual Operating Budgets 2002Up to $50,000: 38%Between $50,000 and $250,000: 45%Between $250,000 and $1,000,000: 9%Over $1,000,000: 8%
Operating Income Sources*Private Not-for-profit (non-government affiliated)
Government Sources: 12%Private Sources: 41%Earned Income: 41%Investment Income: 6%
Government (municipal, county, state, tribal, state university)
Government Sources: 62%Private Sources: 13%Earned Income: 24%Investment Income: 1%*Government Sources: monies provided directly byfederal, state, local, or tribal governments includinggrants, exchange agreements, or line item appropriations.Private Sources: monies provided by private individualsand organizations including foundations, parent organi-zations, corporations, grants, donations, fundraisingevents and activities, Earned Income: monies earned byproviding goods or services where the amount paid iscomparable to actual value of goods or services provided.Includes membership, admission, food and museum storesales, facility rental, workshops, fairs and festivals, etc.Investment Income: the portion of operating incomederived from investments.
Lodging Tax Funds% museums receiving some lodging tax funds: 30%Average lodging tax funds received: $8,763.52Paid Staff and VolunteersUp to $50,000Paid StaffFull Time: 0.20Part Time: 0.40Seasonal Full Time: 0.08Seasonal Part Time: 0.08
Volunteers: 23.84Between $50,000 and $250,000Paid StaffFull Time: 1.24Part Time: 2.00Seasonal Full Time: 0.55Seasonal Part Time: 0.66
Volunteers: 37.59Between $250,000 and $1,000,000Paid StaffFull Time: 6.00Part Time: 8.33Seasonal Full Time: 0.33Seasonal Part Time: 1.33
Volunteers: 228.33Over $1,000,000Paid StaffFull Time: 45.40Part Time: 33.20Seasonal Full Time: 0.00Seasonal Full Time: 0.60
Volunteers: 270.00
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Museum Director/CEO/Manager SalaryFull Time (30 hours or more) Salary RangeUp to $50,000 Operating Budget
$20,700 – 31,200$50,000 – $250,000 Operating Budget
$15,500 – 60,000$250,000 – $1,000,000 Operating Budget
$39,000 – 52,000Over $1,000,000 Operating Budget
$59,000 – 178,000Museums and WMAWMA Members: 63.74%How Did You Hear About WMA?
Word of Mouth: 36Conference Mailing: 15Other: 6Website: 1
Which WMA Benefits are Useful?(1 = very useful, 7 = not useful)Directory: 2.84Conference: 2.94Newsletter: 2.95Advocacy: 3.47e-messenger: 3.56State Museum Map: 3.81Awards/Scholarships: 4.40
What Can WMA Do for You?(representative comments)
⟨ As a voice to the legislature, citizens and businessencouraging support of historic, heritage, and culturalprograms through funding, laws, and participation
⟨ Provide affordable training⟨ Help with getting grants⟨ Source of information regarding how other historical
societies gained funding, planned, and developedmuseums.
⟨ Help promote in your handouts and map; Helpingmuseums develop joint marketing opportunities wouldalso be helpful
⟨ Take a leadership role in museums’ evaluations and themeasurable benefits they provide to their community.
Aberdeen Museum of HistoryAnacortes Museum
Arthur D Feiro Marine Life CenterBattle Days Museum
Benton County Historical MuseumBigelow House Museum
Bothell Historical Museum SocietyBurke Museum
Cashmere Pioneer Village and MuseumCentral Washington Agricultural Museum
Chehalis Valley Historical MuseumChildren’s Museum of Tacoma
Clallam County Historical SocietyColumbia River Exhibition of History, Science & Technology
Cowlitz County Historical MuseumCranberry Museum
Crosby HouseDouglas County Museum
Dr. Burroughs Historical Home & Ritzville RR DepotEdmonds Historical MuseumFerndale Heritage SocietyFoothills Historical SocietyFort Lewis Military Museum
Fort Nisqually Living History MuseumFranklin County Historical Museum
Gig Harbor Peninsula Historical SocietyGrant County Historical Museum and Village
Hand’s On Children’s MuseumHenderson House MuseumHighline Heritage MuseumHistoric Fort Steilacoom
Inland Empire Railway Historical Society MuseumIssaquah Historical Society
Kitsap County Historical SocietyKittitas County Historical MuseumKlikitat County Historical Society
La Conner Quilt MuseumLewis County Historic MuseumLoon Lake Historical Society
Lopez Island Historical MuseumMason County Historical SocietyMercer Island Historical Society
Molson Museum
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Moses Lake Museum and Art CenterNaval Undersea Museum of the Pacific
Nordic Heritage MuseumNorth Clark Historical Museum
Northwest Museum of Arts and CultureOthello Community Museum
Pacific County Historical Society MuseumPalus Museum
Paul H. Karshner Memorial MuseumPolson Museum
Pomeroy Living History FarmPort Gamble Historic Museum
Port Townsend Marine Science CenterPoulsbo Marine Science Center
Puget Sound Coast Artillery MuseumQuinalt Museum
Rainier Valley Historical SocietyRenton Historical Museum
Riverlife Interpretive Center at Redmen HallSeattle Art Museum
Sedro-Wooley MuseumShafer Historical Museum
Skagit County Historical MuseumSky Valley Historical Society Museum
Snohomish County Museum & Historical AssociationSoutheast Spokane County Historical Society
Stanwood Area History Museum & DO Pearson House MuseumSunnyside Historical Museum
Suquamish MuseumTacoma Art Museum
Tacoma Historical SocietyThe Center for Wooden BoatsWaitsburg Historical Museum
Washington State Railroads Historical MuseumWestern Heritage CenterWestport Maritime Museum
Whatcom Museum of Art and HistoryWhite River Valley museumWhoop-n-Holler Museum
Wing LukeWorking Waterfront Museum
World Kite Museum & Hall of FameYakima Valley Museum
Thank you to all the museums that participatedin the WMA Museum Survey:
Give us your valuables!Support the WMA Scholarship Program—donate to the WMA Conference Silent Auction.
Here are some donation suggestions:Books, Holiday Vacation Packages, Gift Baskets, Artwork, Vouchers for Services, etc.
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Collaborations: Recording,Researching, and WritingPacific Northwest History,May 6-8, 2004
For the first time in many years, theNorthwest Archivists, the Northwest OralHistory Association, and the Pacific North-west History Conference are meeting to-gether. The theme recognized the impor-tance of each of these groups in the preser-vation and interpretation of our regionalhistory. The conference will be held at theRed Lion Hotel in Olympia, May 6-8,2004. The 57th Annual Pacific NorthwestHistory Conference is permanently spon-sored by the Washington State HistoricalSociety in conjunction with the annualconferences of the Northwest Archivists,Inc. and the Northwest Oral History Asso-ciation with co-sponsorship from the IdahoState Historical Society and Oregon His-torical Society. For detailed informationon workshops, sessions, and registration,visit www.washingtonhistory.org/wshs/hrc/workshops.htm.
Washington Museum AssociationBoard Nominations Sought
Nominations are now being sought for two three-year board positionsthat will be vacant as of the June Annual Meeting. If you or someone youknow would like to take an active role in leading the WMA in its missionto serve the museums of Washington State, consider this opportunity tojoin your colleagues in leading our organization. All current members ofthe WMA are eligible to serve, self-nominations are strongly encouraged,and nominees need not be associated with a museum. The following isa short listing of board member responsibilities.
Specific Board Member Duties:⟨ Attend all board meetings. Board Meetings are held at members’
museums or places of business and usually last 3 or 4 hours. BoardMeetings are normally held on Fridays, six times a year, dependingupon the needs of the board. Since the WMA board is comprised ofindividuals from museums statewide, meetings are held in geographi-cally diverse locations and afford members an opportunity to see awide variety of museums. Depending on location, Members mayneed to devote a full day to travel and meeting time.
⟨ Serve without compensation.⟨ Attend the WMA Annual Meeting and Conference.
Individual Board Member Expectations:⟨ Consider ways to promote the WMA through your contacts in the
museum community.⟨ Seek new information and ideas that can be applied to the WMA in
its efforts to strengthen Washington’s museums.⟨ Periodically submit articles for publication in the WMA’s newsletter,
Museum Messenger.⟨ Participate in planning and organizing the WMA’s annual confer-
ence. Offer help at the conference when needed.⟨ Serve on at least one of the WMA’s standing committees or help with
ongoing and periodic projects.⟨ Initiate projects that further the WMA’s mission.⟨ Maintain an active Membership with the WMA.
Nominees are asked to submit a brief letter detailing their back-ground and interest to the Nominating Committee Chair, John Larson,c/o Polson Museum, P.O. Box 432, Hoquiam, WA 98550 or by emailto [email protected].
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WashingtonMuseumAssociationwill have its annualbusiness meeting onFriday June 11, 2004from 12:00-1:00 p.m.
The Western MuseumsAssociation announces applicationsare available for the Wanda Chin Profes-sional Development Support Fund whichhelps to defray costs of the WMA (WesternMuseums Association) Annual Meeting inTacoma & Seattle, Washington, October6-10, 2004. The postmark deadline for
applications is June 1, 2004. The WandaChin Professional Development SupportFund helps to fund travel and registrationfor WMA members and non-member stu-dents who meet the qualifications as statedbelow. This program is funded throughannual auctions and donations, and is meantto make the annual meeting financially ac-cessible to individuals who otherwise couldnot attend. We have targeted three eligibil-ity categories, student, incoming profes-sional and mid-career professional. We en-courage applications from members of di-verse communities, and subscribe to EEO/Affirmative Action principles. Funds areawarded in the following three categories:(1) Student (need not be a member), (2)Incoming Professional (must be a member ofWMA for at least one year and have been inthe museum field for 1-5 years), (3) Mid-career professional (must be a member ofWMA for at least one year and have been inthe museum field for 5+ years). This is acompetitive process and awards based pri-marily on financial need. In order to assist asmany qualified applicants as possible, awardsare generally partial amounts requested, as itis expected that the recipient or their insti-tution will share some cost. For furtherinformation and an application go towww.westmuse.org.
The Washington StateCuration Summitwill meet Monday, May 10, 2004at Yakama Tribal Heritage Center,10:00-2:30 p.m.
Last year the Office of Archaeology andHistoric Preservation in Olympia issued21 permits for archaeological excavationor survey in Washington State, 19 ofwhich resulted in collections. Washing-ton State law mandates that archaeo-logical material from public land becurated in a public institution, meaningyour institution may have been con-tacted in recent years to accept archaeo-logical material or may be contactedsoon. Like archaeology sites, archaeol-ogy collections are often not much tolook at. They typically have very littlematerial suitable for exhibition, but theinformation contained within them mayhold answers to many questions aboutpast life ways when analyzed by profes-sionals with the proper tools. For smallerinstitutions, these collections can rap-idly consume valuable storage space,while providing minimal opportunityto actually use the collection. In spite ofthis, the immediate response by manymuseums when approached to curatesuch collections is to accept them, onlyto be dismayed when boxes of rusted tincans, glass shards and soil samples aredelivered. What do you do when ap-proached to accept such a collection?What is entailed in curating archaeologycollections? How do you accommodateresearchers interested in destructiveanalysis, such as some dating methods?Paula Johnson, Owner of Paragon Re-search Associates, Stephenie Kramer, As-sistant State Archaeologist at the Officeof Archaeology and Historic Preserva-tion, Betty Ramsey, Director of the TwoRivers Heritage Museum in Washougal,and Steven Denton, Program Managerat the Burke Museum, will present in-formation on this issue and answer yourquestions in a plenary session at theupcoming WMA meetings in June. TheWashington State Curation Summit isalso working on this issue. For moreinformation on that group visit theirwebsite at http://staff.washington.edu/sdenton/index.htm.
TAX NOTE Nonprofit corpora-tions [501(c)(3)] who have gross revenue of$25,000 or more in a fiscal year must file a form990 or 990EZ with the IRS, for organizationswhose fiscal year ended December 31, 2003 thatreturn is due May 15th. New temporary regu-lations (26 C.F.R. section 1.6081-9T) providethat exempt organizations may automatically
extend the time for filing Form 990 (series)return for three months without a signature oran explanation of why the extension is need. Toget this extension the corporation must file aForm 8868. However, only fill in Part I, Part II isfor corporations who have more that $1,000 inUnrelated Business Income and must file a Form990-T
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Burke Museum presentsDinosaurs of Darkness,March 25-October 10, aninternational touring
exhibit featuring recently discovereddinosaurs that lived in Polar Regions ofthe globe. This kicks off the Burke’s“Year of the Fossil”, a 12-monthprogram on cutting edge paleontologyand fossil education. 206/543-9762 oremail [email protected].
Center forWooden Boats willhave their annualLake Union Wooden
Boat Festival, Experience the Craft, July3-5. The Center is looking for woodenboats of good design, workmanship,and condition or items to displayinvolving the design, craftsmanship, orhandling of wooden boats as well asrelated displays or demonstrations.Contact the Center at 206/382-2628.www.cwb.org
REGIONAL NEWS
The Frye Art Museumwill feature three exhibi-tions this summer. Here I
am! Passages in Portraiture will run fromApril 10-June 27; Scott Fraser: Still Lifeswith Magic and Mystery will be onexhibit from May 7-August 8; Prints,Drawing, and Watercolors from thePermanent Collection will be on displayfrom May 28-September 19. For moreinformation visit their website atwww.fryeart.org.
Historic Seattle will offer severalprograms, lectures, and tours through-out the spring and summer. Some ofwhich include, Wallingford Then And Nowon April 27 from 7:00-9:00p.m. at theHamilton Middle School Auditorium,Landmark Nomination Workshop on May8 from 9:00-1:00p.m. at the GoodShepard Center, and Eastlake Modern-ism Tour on July 10 from 11:00-3:00p.m. with the meeting locationmailed prior to event. To register orlearn about more programs, visit theirwebsite at www.historicseattle.org.
The Museum of Flightin Seattle is ready forspring with their threeyear project entitled
Leonardo da Vinci Ornithopter where art,history and science come together. Ateam of museum volunteers havecompleted I Cigno (The Swan), a full-scale model of a human-powered,flapping wing ornithopter first sketchedby Leonardo da Vinci in the 16th
Century. There is no evidence that theItalian Renaissance genius ever actuallybuilt a real machine, but the Museum’sversion was built entirely by hand usingonly materials available during the1500’s. In March The Swan became apermanent exhibit in the Museum’s newlobby.
The Museum of Glass: Interna-tional Center for ContemporaryArt announced it will be closed to thepublic on Tuesdays. The Museum willcontinue to be closed on Mondays andoperate during regular hours for therest of the week: 10:00a.m.-5:00p.m.Wednesday through Saturday and
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The Aberdeen Museum of Historyis in the process of creating a KurtCobain exhibit and is looking for anyphotographs, t-shirts, memorabilia, etc.to help them complete the exhibit.Please contact Dann Sears at 360/533-1976 if you have items to loan orcontribute.
Fort Lewis Military Museum hasrecently received an ample supply ofthe new Fort Lewis and I Corpscollectible coins. The new coins arebronze with red, white, and blueenameled designs. The front of thecoins feature the unit insignia of ICorps and the reverse depicts thefamiliar “Liberty” gate of Fort Lewis.They are available at the museumWednesday through Sunday. Forfurther information contact The Friendsof the Fort Lewis Military Museum at253/967-4523.
The Moclips By The Sea HistoricalSociety and The North BeachHistorical and PreservationSociety, located in northern GraysHarbor, unanimously voted to mergethe two organizations at a meeting onJanuary 12, 2004. The decision willbenefit both organizations and benefit
the general public and North Beachresidents according to Moclips Presi-dent Kelly Calhoun. The board ofdirectors has been increased from sixto ten. The new entity will be knownas Moclips By The Sea HistoricalSociety and Museum of the NorthBeach. Further information is availablefrom Kelly Calhoun at 360/276-4826.
North Clark Historical Museum atAmboy has been awarded $2,000 bythe Southwest Washington IndependentForward Thrust (SWIFT) to continue todevelop the history of Native AmericanTrains, Fire and the Seasonal Round, fromMt. Adams area traversing the foothillsof Mount St. Helens to Fort Vancouver.Original maps were obtained from theMcClellan Trail exploration whichidentified over 16 campsites. Descrip-tive panels have been designed that willincorporate into a transportable displayto share with other museums. Formore information contact them at 360/247-5800.
Pacific County Historical Societyin South Bend has issued their firstnewsletter in a new, slick format. ThePacific County Museum InformationCenter is open seven days a week year-round and is operated by six volunteerscoordinated by Museum Director BruceWeilepp. As one of two PacificCounty’s information centers a portionof the Museum’s funding comes fromcounty lodging tax funds. The Histori-cal Society will continue the publicationof the genealogy resource booksformerly published by the PacificCounty Genealogical Society. Museuminformation is available atwww.pacificcohistory.org or by [email protected].
Pomeroy Living History Farm willhost their 24th Annual Herb Festival inYacolt May 16-17. The event features alarge selection of fresh herbs, unusualplants, and scented geraniums. Thisfamily event includes tractor-pulledhayrides, petting, and feeding farmanimals. Contact Steve Zedekar 360/686-3537 for further information.
The Washington State Library inOlympia, is offering a program on May4 at 6:00p.m. with Roger Wendlick,thought of as the “dean of Lewis andClark book collecting.” He will betalking about book collecting in generalplus his Lewis and Clark collecting
OLYMPIC PENINSULA& SAN JUAN ISLANDS
The Museum and Arts Center ofSequim received a $1,950 grant fromthe Sequim Community Foundation toinstall a lift to the second floor of theDungeness School. The Center andPeninsula College have combinedefforts to offer an Adult Interest Coursecalled Olympic Peninsula History, a 10week, no credit course. Fourteendifferent instructors will give lectureson their areas of expertise. Visit theirwebsite at www.sequimmuseum.org oremail [email protected] formore information.
12:00-5:00p.m. on Sunday. TheScience of Art education program forpre-arranged groups will be held onTuesdays as scheduled. The decision toclose on Tuesdays was made based onthe desire to concentrate Museum staffand resources on the busiest days ofthe week, in order to provide thehighest quality of experience forvisitors. Their information line is 253/284-4750 or 1-866-4Museum.
The Naval UnderseaMuseum is pursuingpaperwork for a grant toextend their three-year
Science Education Alliance program,which involves nine school districts.During the last three years, more than18,000 students visited the museumand received instruction on oceano-graphic science, which is fully inte-grated into the curriculum of theschool districts. The museum has madethe transition to the CommunityPrograms Department of Navy RegionNorthwest and the change is goingsmoothly. For museum news andinformation contact 360/396-7944.
The Snohomish County Museumand Historical Association inEverett is celebrating their 50th Anni-versary this year. During 2004,industries and enterprises that shapedthe character of the county will be thefocus of exhibits and events. Inaddition to exhibiting information onmining, logging, milling, maritime andother related commercial ventures,changing exhibits will focus on particu-lar communities within the county.Information is available by phoning425/259-2022.
The Washington State HistoricalMuseum will feature a temporaryexhibit, Family of Strangers: The FirstCentury of Jewish Life in Washington,1840-1940, May 24-December 12. Theexhibit uses artifacts, photographs, andstories from 1840-1940 to illuminatethe richness and breadth of Jewishculture that has developed across thestate of Washington. This exhibit wasdeveloped in conjunction with theWashington State Jewish HistoricalSociety. For more information call 1-800-238-4373 or visit their website atwww.wshs.org.
The White River Valley Museumwill host a family event, Wild and Wooly,
of Spinning and Weaving and Such on May1 from 12:00-4:00p.m. On exhibitthrough July 11 is Auburn Yard: NorthernPacific Railway’s Western Terminal, whichfeatures 40 historic photographs Forinformation call 253/288-7433 or visittheir website at www.wrvmuseum.org.
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Eastern Washington University,Department of History Social StudiesEducation Program won two Depart-ment of Education “Teaching AmericaHistory” grants totaling $1.4 millionand have revised and expanded thecurricula for their bachelor and mastersdegrees. The teaching material beinggenerated by these grants are acces-sible via links from the History Depart-ment website: http://ewu/csbs/depts/hist/programs.html.
LaConner Quilt Museum willfeature quilts from all provinces ofCanada and Transitions in Quiltingthrough May 16. Call 360/466-4288for more information.
The Museum of North-west Art at LaConner hasnamed Tamera Toffeson asthe new Art Educator. She
will develop and coordinate a newmuseum-based education program forschool children, which fulfills a recentLearning Opportunities grant from theInstitute of Museum and LibraryServices. The funding allows museumstaff and docent volunteers to provideart education in partnership with sevenSkagit County school districts. Forfurther MoNA information phone 360/466-4446 or visit the website atwww.musaeumofnwart.org.
The Whatcom Museumof History and Art willfeature an exhibit, Icy Hell
and the Pacific Northwest: Will E. Hudson,Newsreel Cameraman from May 9-September 5. Will Hudson capturedthe essence of life in the Pacific North-west through his moving images.Selected footage in several thematicexperiences will provide viewers withan insight to a variety of culturalevents, explorations, environmental,and economic facets of the region. Formore information visit their website at
The Loon Lake Historical Societyis working with the owners at ShoreAcres Resort to record their history. Aplea has been made to the public toshare stories or photos about the LoonLake resort. The photographs will becopied and returned to the owners.The history will become a part of theresort and be available at the OldSchoolhouse for the public to see. Ifyou have memorabilia to share callBernie at 509/233-2474.
The Moses Lake Museum and ArtCenter will feature several exhibits forspring and summer, including aColumbia Basin High School Art Exhibitfrom April 17-May15, a SmithsonianExhibit, Yesterday’s Tomorrows: PastVisions of the American Future from May8-June 16, and Enlaces/Intersection, aphotograph exhibit by GracielaIturbide. For more information phone509/766-9395 or [email protected].
The Northwest Museum ofArts & Culture, in collabora-tion with Eastern WashingtonUniversity students, is turningSR26 from Colfax to Vantage
into a 133-mile long museum. Througha series of proposals by the students,the hope is to increase awareness of itsdramatic landscape and residents. Theresult is a series of histories, myths,geologies, forms and politics of thehighway. The exhibit will run until May2, 2004. For more information call509/456-3931 or visitwww.northwestmuseum.org.
The Clymer Museum of Art,Gallery One, and Kittitas CountyHistorical Museum are currentlyhosting a joint exhibit, What a Jewel!,which will run through May 1, 2004.This one theme, three location exhibitfeatures Native American jewelry,jewelry as sculpture, and jewelry stylesof the decades. For more informationcall 509/925-3778.
Franklin County Historical Soci-ety will host a lecture on April 22,SMOKE: Native and Trade Tobacco on theColumbia Plateau, by Jack Nisbet at theRichland Public Library. For moreinformation call 509/547-3714 or [email protected].
The Maryhill Museum of Art will beshowing an Outdoor Sculpture InvitationalMarch 15-November 15 to complementits extensive collection of AugusteRodin sculptures. The 2004 exhibitwill feature 14 contemporary artists.On April 24 from 2:00-5:00p.m., RexZiak, noted author of In Full View willspeak. A Lewis & Clark enthusiastreading from the Corps of Discoveryjournals will lead an easy to moderatehike through sage and wild flowercovered hills to view the vistas of sitesthat the Corps visited and documentedwhile in the vicinity. During July 17-November 15 an exhibit, A Passion ForPlants: Before and After Lewis and Clarkhas been slated. For a full program ofLewis & Clark events during 2004contact: Lee Musgrave at 509/773-3733or [email protected] or visit thewebsite at www.maryhillmuseum.org.
www.whatcommuseum-.org or phone360/676-6981.
career. His collection is now owned bythe Lewis and Clark College in Port-land. Part of the collection will cometo Washington State next year. Thetopic of his lecture will be The Lewis andClark Biblomaniac that Had to Have It Alland Assembling the World’s Largest PrintCollection of Lewis and Clark Materials.For more information contact BettyCraig at [email protected] or360/704-5269.
Westport Maritime Museum istaking part in the Senior CommunityService Employment Program, whichprovides volunteers for non-profitorganizations. Restoration of the GraysHarbor Lighthouse, recently transferredto the Museum, is underway and onschedule. For information contact 360/268-0078 or their website atwww.westportwa.com/museum/.
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