Annual Fund
A Message from the Executive Director
The Bruce Museum is most grateful for support of its Annual Fund, which enables the Museum to offer a full calendar of first-rate art and science exhibitions each year. In addition this support allows us to provide a wide range of educational programs suited to all of our visitors, including families, school children, retirees, art collectors and scholars and first-time guests.
This year, the Museum will broaden its educational initiatives to include more science programming. Our new Seaside Center in the Floren Family Environmental Center at Innis Arden Cottage on Greenwich Point is equipped with a state-of-the-art aquarium, interactive exhibits and workspaces. It will support a full range of exploration and study, from informal birding walks and ecology workshops for families to more formal, curriculum-based lessons for students of all ages. Plans are in the works to establish an organic, water-wise community garden on the Museum’s grounds. The garden will be a living laboratory to enhance our local schools’ various science and math curricula and to provide a glorious setting for children to learn science out of doors. This garden will demonstrate that our backyard activities have important effects on our immediate environment. It will serve as a significant new resource for many of our art and science programs.
We have two wonderful exhibitions on the calendar that are sure to delight families.
Walter Wick: Games, Gizmos and Toys in the Attic, opening in January 2012, will feature a beguiling array of puzzles, games, models, and illusions from the award-winning author and photographic illustrator, Walter Wick, co-creator of the I Spy book series.
The Olympic Games: Art, Culture and Sport, scheduled to coincide with the 2012 Olympic Games in London, will showcase the culture and science of the games from ancient times to the present. It will bring the games vividly to life through extraordinary objects including sculpture, paintings, prints and photographs, and ceramics on loan from museums and private collections as well as Olympic memorabilia and sports equipment. The interactive elements of the exhibition will highlight the crucial role that science and technology play in the development of elite athletes and the administration of the Olympic Games.
We hope you will choose to support the Bruce Museum through a gift to the Annual Fund. It is through your generosity that we can offer the number and quality of programs that our visitors have come to expect of the Bruce as well as develop exciting new opportunities for enrichment and discovery.
Thank you in advance for your support.
Peter C. Sutton
Executive Director and CEO
Bruce Museum
Please download the Annual Fund donation form and fax to 203 . 869 . 0963 or mail to
Bruce Museum -- Annual Fund, 1 Museum Drive, Greenwich, CT 06830
