MUSEUM PARTNERS
VMFA invites your institution to become a Museum Partner!
This partner category includes museums and art centers, college and university museums and galleries with VMFA-compliant security and environmental controls.
How to Become a Museum Partner
You can join
online or print and fill out an
membership form and return it to the VMFA with your $25 fee.
This form is a PDF file requiring Adobe® Acrobat® Reader.
The use of the following notation after organization’s official name, “A Partner of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts,” is recommended for purposes of reflecting the partnership between the institution and VMFA.
Museum Partner Benefits
- EXHIBITIONS–FREE*
Ready-to-hang traveling exhibitions are available. They
feature original works by historic and contemporary artists—
many of them Virginians—or image panels that explore
diverse cultures and topics that complement Virginia’s
Standards of Learning objectives.
* Shipping charges may apply.
- MEDIA RESOURCES–FREE
With the largest audiovisual loan collection of any Museum in
the country, VMFA provides statewide access to over 2,500
DVDs, CD-ROMs, videotapes, films, educational discovery
kits, and posters.
- ART ON THE SPOT–FREE
Partners can facilitate access to this new in-school program with a professional educator and SOL based resources for local elementary classrooms.
- ARTIST WORKSHOPS–PARTNER DISCOUNT
Intensive master classes in the visual and performing arts
allow children and adults to work closely with professional
artists of state, regional, and national reputation.
- SPEAKERS ON THE ARTS–PARTNER DISCOUNT
This lecture series features curators, educators, and art
historians who share their expertise on a wide variety of
exciting and informative topics with adult audiences
statewide.
- EDUCATOR WORKSHOPS–PARTNER DISCOUNT
Information-packed workshops show educators how to use
works of art to teach Virginia’s Standards of Learning
objectives across the school curriculum.
- FELLOWSHIP OPPORTUNITIES–FREE
Privately endowed financial awards are made annually to
professional, graduate and undergraduate Virginia artists.
- TECHNICAL ASSISTANCE–FREE
VMFA’s expert staff provides professional consultation on
an array of museum subjects.
- PUBLICATIONS–FREE
Museum Partners receive a subscription to VMFA's quarterly My Museum and Annual Report; program promotional materials, press kits, etc.; and opportunities for publicity on the Statewide Calendar section of the VMFA website.
- HYPERLINK TO YOUR WEBSITE–FREE
Your institution will be included on VMFA's listing of statewide partners with a hyperlink to your Web site.
For more information, phone Susan Ferrell, Director of Statewide Partnerships, at 804.204.2670, fax at 804.204.2675, e-mail at edpartner@vmfa.museum, or write to:
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Virginia Museum of Fine Arts
Office of Statewide Partnerships
200 N. Boulevard
Richmond, Virginia 23220-4007
