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A gift to the Hampton University Museum helps support the arts, history and education.\u00a0 Your contribution helps to fund changing exhibitions, special programs, national juried art shows, lectures, staffing needs, support for school buses, camps and special initiatives. The Museum offers three ways<\/em> for you to give your support:<\/p>

Become a Friend of the Museum<\/b><\/p>

With more than 9500 objects (art and artifacts) including an unparalleled African American fine arts collection, the Hampton University Museum is nationally acclaimed. Founded in 1868, it is the nation\u2019s oldest African American museum and one of the two oldest in Virginia. Its holdings represent the first assemblage of African art collected by an African American, and it is the first institution to establish a collection of African American artists. Since relocating to the historic Huntington Building in 1997, the Museum has more gallery space and is also the home of the University Archives. It features two floors of spacious exhibition galleries, an educational classroom, a teacher\u2019s resource center, and a comfortable reading room in the University Archives.<\/p>

The Museum also has an expanded Museum Store that sells publications, posters from select pieces and hand crafted items from America, Africa, South America and the Caribbean. Your membership will help to reach and teach America\u2019s future generations and will help maintain this legacy.<\/p>

Your gift helps ensure we can offer a rich mix of school tours, events, and public programs. Your donation allows us to showcase the Hampton University Museum. Various opportunities exist to support the museum\u2019s programs, events and exhibitions.<\/p>

In 1991 the Friends group started with 100 Founding Members who encouraged ten personal friends to join.\u00a0 Your contribution helps to sustain Hampton\u2019s Standard of Excellence.<\/p>

Memberships are available for as little as $25 per year (individual membership) and entitles one to a 10% discount in the Museum Shop, special member events and programs. Our membership categories are named for Friends in the Arts that are artists or historic figures associated with the Hampton University Collection. To review our membership benefits, please see the tabs below or download our\u00a0membership brochure (1.81mb Adobe PDF)<\/a>.<\/p>

Become a Sponsor<\/b><\/p>

Whether yours is a small business or national corporation, a civic\/social organization your donation\/sponsorship is crucial.<\/p>

Your gift helps ensure we can offer a rich mix of school tours, events, and public programs. Your donation allows us to showcase the Hampton University Museum. Various opportunities exist to support the museum\u2019s programs, events and exhibitions. Sponsors receive special recognition on-site, as well as on related marketing and promotional materials.<\/p>

Become a Hampton University Museum Volunteer (HUMV)<\/b><\/p>

Join an amazing group of volunteers who work as docents, guides and greeters in the oldest African American museum in the United States and one of the oldest museums in Virginia.\u00a0 Surrounded by over 9,500 objects a Hampton University Museum Volunteer is helping to secure the legacy in perpetuity.<\/p>

To become a HUMV you need to:<\/p>