Friends of the Museums, dba Northwest Territory Museum Society is a non-profit organization that manages both the Campus Martius Museum and the Ohio River Museum on behalf of the Ohio History Connection.
Local management allows the museums to be open more days and improve visitor services.
Your donation to the Friends of the Museums will provide resources to educate the young and young-at-heart and will help ensure both museums continue to be sources of community pride.
Thank you for being the person that helps keep history alive!
Endowment Fund
A gift to the endowment is a thoughtful memorial for loved ones. Friends of the Museums (FOM) now has an endowment which is administered by the Marietta Community Foundation. Funds collected from Lifetime Memberships go directly into the FOM Endowment Fund. Anyone may use the endowment to give back to our community by helping the museums. All you need to do is write a check to: Marietta Community Foundation with FOM Endowment Fund written on the memo line of the check. Then mail the check to the Marietta Community Foundation.
Marietta Community Foundation
Friends of the Museums Endowment
121 Putnam Street
Suite 105
Marietta, OH 45750
Marietta Community Foundation: http://www.mcfohio.org/
Donate an Artifact
Do you have an item you think we may be interested in for our museums? New admissions into FOM/NTMS collections will focus primarily on items, artifacts, and documents directly linked to the settlement of the Northwest Territory, the early history of Marietta, the history of the Ohio River and its associated inland waterways, and/or the founding families of Campus Martius including but not limited to the Putnam and Cutler families, and individuals including but not limited to Rufus Putnam. This is not an exhaustive list; rather,it is an indication of the primary interests of FOM/NTMS, according to the mission of our organization: to promote and preserve the history of our region, the Northwest Territory, and our inland waterways.
Click here to download our Donation Inquiry Form. Please email this form, along with photographs of the item(s) to logan@mariettamuseums.org
Logan Reynolds, Director of Collections, will contact you in approximately 3 business days to review our accession process, and discuss the item(s).
The Friends of the Museums offers first right of refusal to the Ohio History Connection.