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St. Louis, MO 63116
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This is the latest column by Joanne Martin, the President of the Miniature Museum of Greater St. Louis.
Garage Sale
The annual Garage Sale was held March 3rd at the Fireman's Hall directly behind the museum.The museum had its garage sale items on sale in the classroom because of the overwhelming response of people who wanted a table.
The museum made over $1,100 from the sale. We also had increased sales in the museum gift shop because of the increased traffic from the garage sale. We want to thank the participants. We had a great time!
Visitors to the Museum
Bill Cambron has been keeping track of our visitors. His report shows nearly 1,000 people visited the museum in 2011. People used coupons from our website, the Entertainment Book, and Channel 9, and free passes that we have given to charitable institutions for fund-raising efforts.
Volunteers
I want to thank all the people who are volunteering to staff the museum. As I've said in the past, we keep losing some of our volunteers because of health issues, and if anyone not currently volunteering is interested in one or two days a month, We'd certainly appreciate your additional help. Becky Niethammer is handling the volunteers since I had my heart attack and I'd appreciate it if some of you would call her to volunteer to help us out to staff the museum. Her phone # is (314) 830-3669. If she doesn't answer please leave a message. You can contact her by email at bnkat13@aol.com.
Exhibits
Spring Holidays and Spring Scenes will be on exhibit in March until the end of April. Be sure to stop by and see them. We also installed Dorothy Roberts' Mansard Roof dollhouse. It has some charming dolls. Be sure to check it out.
Donations
We want to thank everyone who made donations to the museum. If you’ve donated something and your name doesn’t appear, please notify Fay (314) 261-7439 and we will rectify this in the next newsletter.
Donations of items for the gift shop, books and magazines, dollhouses, furniture and accessories of all kinds were made by:
Shirley Blankenship
Linda Gearhart
Mary Hazelton
Jane Jacobs
Judy Macher
Joanne Martin
AnnTansey
|Susan Wilson
Monetary donations:
Memorial for Becky
Niethammer's brother by Mary Wrenn
Mary Hazelton
Susan Wilson
Loretta Wagner
Building Renovation Update
Joe, O.T., and Dave are working on lighting exhibits in the museum. Check out some of the new lighting in the Designer House from Dallas, the doll cabinet and the Petite Princess cabinet.
Comments or questions: e-mail FZerb@aol.com