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Become a Donor

Arizona State Museum depends on private support for a variety of important programs. Your contributions of cash and/or objects will help us with:

Collections Care: Help preserve the world's largest and most comprehensive collection of Southwest Indian pottery through our Save a Pot project! Your $50 gift will go directly toward the conservation of one specific vessel. Save several! You will receive a certificate, before and after photos, and a condition report on each vessel you save. Do your part to help preserve an American treasure so that future generations can enjoy and learn from this peerless and priceless collection.

Collections Acquisition: ASM carefully considers donations of private collections that are in line with the museum's mission and research perview*:

  • Traditional Southwest Indian art: pottery, basketry, jewelry, textiles
  • Contemporary Southwest Indian art: painting, sculpture
  • Objects from the indigenous tribes of northwest Mexico: Seri, Yaqui, Mayo, Tarahumara
  • Mexican folk art such as masks and traditional costumes

*ASM occasionally considers donations of exceptional world collections for comparative and teaching purposes.

Educational Program Production

  • Southwest Indian Art Fair
  • Culture Craft Saturdays
  • Marking the Solstice

Exhibitions

  • Pottery Project Interpretive Gallery
  • Set in Stone
  • Journeys of our Ancestors

Library Services

  • Thomas H. Naylor Memorial SW Book Fund
  • Jeannette Morrow Matthew Fund

Research Programs

  • Homol'ovi Research Program
  • Borderlands Archaeology Program
  • Office of Ethnohistorical Research
  • Stanley J. Olsen Laboratory of Zooarchaeology

Native American Internships

  • Norton Allen American Indian Internship Endowment

Facilities Expanson

  • Rio Nuevo downtown facility
  • Off-site storage

Data Management: Because the museum's collections grow on a daily basis, so does the museum's need for late model, fully functional, higher-end computer equipment:

  • Servers
  • Desk-top computers (PC based only)

Many companies will match employee cash gifts to double or even triple the total value. Please check with your human resources department.

You can make a donation online using the University of Arizona Foundation's secure websiteOpens in a new window.

To find out more about these and many other giving areas, learn about naming opportunities, or explore how to make a planned gift, contact Director of Development Steve Harvath by email or at 520-626-3466.

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