A year of visits, a garden bed, or one object put right.
Admissions pay for about a third of what a visit costs. Members, gifts, rentals and a state grant pay for the rest, and every dollar of it is on the Financials page. Closed for today.
Four tiers, one table.
| What you get | Individual$55 a year | Household$95 a year | Supporter$150 a year | Patron$400 a year |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Who it covers | one adult | two adults and children under 18 at one address | a household, and a name in the annual report | a household, the annual dinner, a private tour |
| Free admission for a year | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Members' preview of every exhibition | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| 10% in the shop | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| The members' letter, four times a year | yes | yes | yes | yes |
| Two guest passes a year | — | yes | yes | yes |
| A garden walk with the garden manager | — | — | yes | yes |
| Your name in the annual report | — | — | yes | yes |
| A private tour for up to six | — | — | — | yes |
| The annual dinner in the garden room | — | — | — | yes |
| Join | Individual → | Household → | Supporter → | Patron → |
Memberships current on 31 December 2025, from the membership list. A household membership counts once, whoever is on it.
A membership runs for a year from the day you join. For Household and above, the payment is more than $75 and buys benefits, so the receipt states the value of those benefits, as the IRS asks for a quid pro quo contribution (IRS, quid pro quo contributions; Publication 1771). Joining, on this demonstration, opens an email; on a real site the button takes the payment. The museum does not give tax advice.
Admissions pay for about a third of a visit. Members pay for most of the rest — and are free every day, not only on the first Sunday.
Sponsor a bed for a year.
The walled garden is planted from the family’s seed books, bed by bed. Sponsoring a bed pays for its seed, its compost and the garden manager’s time for a year, and puts a small label at its end. Six beds; the garden manager keeps the list and tells you which are open.
| The pear wallespaliers, south wall | $600 |
|---|---|
| The long bordersdahlias and asters | $500 |
| The kitchen bedsfour, planted in rotation | $450 |
| The herb bedby the kitchen door | $300 |
| The urn bedat the end of the path | $300 |
| The cutting bedfor the house | $300 |
Ask by email: [email protected]. The garden also takes things: hazel pea sticks, terracotta pots 5 inches and up, jute twine, a sound wheelbarrow, leaf mould by the bag, and old hand tools that can be mended. Bring them to the gate on an open day.
One object, or one bed, or the whole year.
$25 is a day’s water for the garden in August; $120 conserves a small object; $500 sponsors a bed for a year. Monthly gifts let the curator book a conservator without waiting for the appeal.
$120 conserves one small object.
Give $120 once →Demonstration: the button opens an email; no card is taken. On a real site this is the museum’s own giving page. Gifts are tax-deductible as the law allows; the museum sends a statement each January and never lists donors by name without asking.
In the museum’s own units.
Gifts of stock, a gift in someone’s name, or a bequest: by email to [email protected]. The museum reports every year, on the Financials page, what the money did.