12/12/2020
Bartlett Museum, Amesbury, MA
Annual Fund Appeal, 2020
Hello from the Bartlett Museum!
This has been an incredibly challenging year for all of us. We would like to extend our sincere sympathies to members of our community who have lost a loved one or suffered other losses during the pandemic. Unfortunately, we were not able to open the Museum over the summer and had to cancel our annual luncheon, the auction in the pines and our annual appliance recycling event.
While 2020 was a relatively quiet year at the Museum, we still have maintenance expenses. You may have noticed that our sign was down for a few months. It had some significant rot on the wooden frame, but we were able to fix the frame and rehang the sign in July. Our latest issue is a tree that split off a main branch and fell on top of the Carriage Shed. Luckily, it looks like there was minimal damage to the roof, but the tree needs to come down and we are in the process of having it removed.
We are hoping to be able to open in the summer of 2021.
We still plan to move one of the carriages into the main Museum so that we can display the chaise that we acquired in 2019. And we are planning to hold another appliance recycling event in either the summer or fall of 2021.
We would like to thank our volunteers, members and generous donors. Without you we couldn’t keep preserving Amesbury’s history. We need your support to keep things going and to keep up with maintaining our building and grounds.
Will you help us today with a tax-deductible donation?
We depend on donations and appreciate whatever you can give us this year for our annual appeal. Even if you can only afford a small amount, every donation helps!
The Bartlett Museum is dedicated to preserving and displaying the rich history of Amesbury and the surrounding communities. We operate entirely as volunteers. The board, the committees, and even the docents are all volunteers who donate their time and effort to the museum. But we can’t do it on sweat equity alone.
Can you send us a tax-deductible donation today? Anything you can pledge will help.
In return we’ll keep telling the history of Amesbury, keep our collection safe and keep the museum open for all to visit. Will you help us to preserve our history?
Jonathan Camp
President, Board of Directors
Bartlett Museum, PO Box 692, Amesbury, MA 01913