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I'd like to find out if any accredited museums out there have any sort of reciprocity agreement with other accredited museums to offer free or reduced admission to each others' members?  We are newly accredited and the question has been raised.  Thank you!

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Leora Mattila MBA
Project Manager
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Chaska MN
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Original Message------

I'd like to find out if any accredited museums out there have any sort of reciprocity agreement with other accredited museums to offer free or reduced admission to each others' members?  We are newly accredited and the question has been raised.  Thank you!

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Leora Mattila MBA
Project Manager
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Chaska MN
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Museum Appliance Reciprocal Program is another organization to check out.

-Ria

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Maria Fumai Dietrich
Membership and Individual Giving Manager
Parrish Art Museum
Water Mill NY
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-19-2017 04:14 PM
From: Barbara Elfman
Subject: Member Reciprocity

We just joined NARM which allows members who spend at least $100 for membership at your museum are given privileges at over 900 other museums. It costs your museum $175 a year to offer.  https://narmassociation.org/

 

 

Barbara Elfman

Executive Director

Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

617-277-0065 ext 13

2450 Beacon Street

Boston, MA 02467

Barbara.Elfman@waterworksmuseum.org

@MetroWaterworks

 

 

​Thank you!  I will check this out.

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Leora Mattila MBA
Project Manager
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Chaska MN
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-20-2017 09:26 AM
From: Maria Fumai Dietrich
Subject: Member Reciprocity

Museum Appliance Reciprocal Program is another organization to check out.

-Ria

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Maria Fumai Dietrich
Membership and Individual Giving Manager
Parrish Art Museum
Water Mill NY

Original Message:
Sent: 07-19-2017 04:14 PM
From: Barbara Elfman
Subject: Member Reciprocity

We just joined NARM which allows members who spend at least $100 for membership at your museum are given privileges at over 900 other museums. It costs your museum $175 a year to offer.  https://narmassociation.org/

 

 

Barbara Elfman

Executive Director

Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

617-277-0065 ext 13

2450 Beacon Street

Boston, MA 02467

Barbara.Elfman@waterworksmuseum.org

@MetroWaterworks

 

 

We'll be joining NARM soon as well. The director of another small organization nearby shared her experience with me saying that it boosted their $135 membership level by an additional 25-30 new members. Feedback from her members is that they really love the program. I can't believe there is a benefit of this value out there for $175. I couldn't buy each of our $100 + members a coffee once a year for that. 

Thanks for sharing Barbara, I'd love to hear more feedback from members.

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Freya Liggett
Museum Manager
Moses Lake Museum & Art Center
Moses Lake WA
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-19-2017 04:14 PM
From: Barbara Elfman
Subject: Member Reciprocity

We just joined NARM which allows members who spend at least $100 for membership at your museum are given privileges at over 900 other museums. It costs your museum $175 a year to offer.  https://narmassociation.org/

 

 

Barbara Elfman

Executive Director

Metropolitan Waterworks Museum

617-277-0065 ext 13

2450 Beacon Street

Boston, MA 02467

Barbara.Elfman@waterworksmuseum.org

@MetroWaterworks

 

 

Our Museum does not offer reciprocity for admission to other AAM accredited institutions. We do participate in the ASTC Passport program that provides free admission for our members into about 400 ASTC museums.

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James Walther
Executive Director
National Museum of Nuclear Science and History
Albuquerque NM
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-19-2017 03:58 PM
From: Leora Mattila
Subject: Member Reciprocity

I'd like to find out if any accredited museums out there have any sort of reciprocity agreement with other accredited museums to offer free or reduced admission to each others' members?  We are newly accredited and the question has been raised.  Thank you!

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Leora Mattila MBA
Project Manager
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Chaska MN
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Hi Leora,

Since you are an Arboretum, you might want to look into the American Horticultural Society reciprocity program. http://ahsgardening.org/gardening-programs/rap/find
While I don't work at a garden, I am a member of one and have used the reciprocity benefits to see almost 10 other gardens nation wide. 

Best,
Nicole 

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Nicole Smith
Membership & Data Coordinator
Missouri History Museum
Saint Louis, MO
nicole.m.smith.1985@gmail.com
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-19-2017 03:58 PM
From: Leora Mattila
Subject: Member Reciprocity

I'd like to find out if any accredited museums out there have any sort of reciprocity agreement with other accredited museums to offer free or reduced admission to each others' members?  We are newly accredited and the question has been raised.  Thank you!

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Leora Mattila MBA
Project Manager
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Chaska MN
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​Yes, we do have a program for reciprocal admission with other botanical gardens that are over a certain number of miles away.  It works well and members do appreciate it.

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Leora Mattila MBA
Project Manager
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Chaska MN
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-20-2017 12:17 PM
From: Nicole Smith
Subject: Member Reciprocity

Hi Leora,

Since you are an Arboretum, you might want to look into the American Horticultural Society reciprocity program. http://ahsgardening.org/gardening-programs/rap/find
While I don't work at a garden, I am a member of one and have used the reciprocity benefits to see almost 10 other gardens nation wide.

Best,
Nicole 

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Nicole Smith
Membership & Data Coordinator
Missouri History Museum
Saint Louis, MO
nicole.m.smith.1985@gmail.com

Original Message:
Sent: 07-19-2017 03:58 PM
From: Leora Mattila
Subject: Member Reciprocity

I'd like to find out if any accredited museums out there have any sort of reciprocity agreement with other accredited museums to offer free or reduced admission to each others' members?  We are newly accredited and the question has been raised.  Thank you!

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Leora Mattila MBA
Project Manager
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Chaska MN
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We are a international single artist museum and we offer the North American Reciprocal Membership NARM at highest General Membership Level and to our Upper Membership levels. We offer the benefit so that we have a featured benefit to offer to our non-Local visitors. 75% of our visitation is outside the local market. Membership is a hard sale for transient visitors. NARM and "financial support" are two of the reasons we able to sale memberships to the 75% on non-local visitors.

Due to the number of local NARM affiliations we restrict NARM benefits from museums within 50 mile radius. Within the 50 Mile radius there are over 3500 NARM memberships and the affiliate museums. The Dali Museum only has 300 NARM memberships so the allocation is unbalanced to the Free Admission so we restrict the reciprocity within 50 miles of the museum. 

As you can imagine this is a source of contention to local member with a desire to visit the Dali Museum. To offset this we created a local reciprocity program with local museums (all within the NARM restriction so that each month The Dali Museum features a Local Reciprocal for ALL members. We schedule the reciprocity based on total Households for each affiliate museum So that when we are in our slow season we feature affiliates with higher households and when we are in busier season we feature museums with lower total household. Make the impact on admission work for us. 

Feel free to check out the NARM FAQ and The Membership Reciprocal on our website at Membership Reciprocity Program - Salvador Dali Museum and at  Salvador Dali Museum.

Salvador Dali Museum		remove preview
Membership Reciprocity Program - Salvador Dali Museum Each month, Dali Museum members receive free admission to a different area museum or attraction as a benefit of their Dali Museum membership. Members of the partnering museums/attractions are invited to visit The Dali during the corresponding month. Details of the program The Dali Museum and our partnering museums proudly extend free admission to each ... View this on Salvador Dali Museum >

Thanks
Jim

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James Nixon
Membership & Group Sales Manager
Salvador Dali Museum
Saint Petersburg FL
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-19-2017 03:58 PM
From: Leora Mattila
Subject: Member Reciprocity

I'd like to find out if any accredited museums out there have any sort of reciprocity agreement with other accredited museums to offer free or reduced admission to each others' members?  We are newly accredited and the question has been raised.  Thank you!

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Leora Mattila MBA
Project Manager
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Chaska MN
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​Thank you!  I'm checking into this now.

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Leora Mattila MBA
Project Manager
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Chaska MN
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Original Message:
Sent: 07-21-2017 08:41 AM
From: James Nixon
Subject: Member Reciprocity

We are a international single artist museum and we offer the North American Reciprocal Membership NARM at highest General Membership Level and to our Upper Membership levels. We offer the benefit so that we have a featured benefit to offer to our non-Local visitors. 75% of our visitation is outside the local market. Membership is a hard sale for transient visitors. NARM and "financial support" are two of the reasons we able to sale memberships to the 75% on non-local visitors.

Due to the number of local NARM affiliations we restrict NARM benefits from museums within 50 mile radius. Within the 50 Mile radius there are over 3500 NARM memberships and the affiliate museums. The Dali Museum only has 300 NARM memberships so the allocation is unbalanced to the Free Admission so we restrict the reciprocity within 50 miles of the museum.

As you can imagine this is a source of contention to local member with a desire to visit the Dali Museum. To offset this we created a local reciprocity program with local museums (all within the NARM restriction so that each month The Dali Museum features a Local Reciprocal for ALL members. We schedule the reciprocity based on total Households for each affiliate museum So that when we are in our slow season we feature affiliates with higher households and when we are in busier season we feature museums with lower total household. Make the impact on admission work for us.

Feel free to check out the NARM FAQ and The Membership Reciprocal on our website at Membership Reciprocity Program - Salvador Dali Museum and at  Salvador Dali Museum.

Salvador Dali Museum		remove preview
Membership Reciprocity Program - Salvador Dali Museum Each month, Dali Museum members receive free admission to a different area museum or attraction as a benefit of their Dali Museum membership. Members of the partnering museums/attractions are invited to visit The Dali during the corresponding month. Details of the program The Dali Museum and our partnering museums proudly extend free admission to each ... View this on Salvador Dali Museum >

Thanks
Jim

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James Nixon
Membership & Group Sales Manager
Salvador Dali Museum
Saint Petersburg FL

Original Message:
Sent: 07-19-2017 03:58 PM
From: Leora Mattila
Subject: Member Reciprocity

I'd like to find out if any accredited museums out there have any sort of reciprocity agreement with other accredited museums to offer free or reduced admission to each others' members?  We are newly accredited and the question has been raised.  Thank you!

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Leora Mattila MBA
Project Manager
Minnesota Landscape Arboretum
Chaska MN
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