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Campaign Purpose:  The Antiquarian Society has led a one-time successful campaign of raising $1.2 million to purchase artwork and American historical artifacts that were given to the community by our earliest philanthropists. The items are not only important to the cultural heritage of the Green Bay area but are also important and of interest on a national level. The successful campaign was a once in a lifetime opportunity that will benefit the community by:

• Preserving for future generations some of the community’s earliest cultural treasures, which, if they had been sold to individuals worldwide, would never return to our community.
• Providing the Neville Public Museum with valuable and important artwork, artifacts, and documents of American history.
• Providing the Brown County Library with a secure endowment outside of the County budget Providing our youth with the opportunity to see important art work and learn our heritage.
• Enhancing the cultural opportunities in the downtown area

Campaign Timeline:  The Antiquarian Society raised $1.2 million of the $1.3 million total campaign goal to meet the timeline of  December 14, 2007.

  The collection has been placed at The Neville Public Museum.The entire collection  of 69 works of art is on public display from September 20 through November 12, 2008.   Free Lecture Series on the Collection October 4,11,18 & 25th.  1:30-2:30 pm. www.nevillepublicmuseum.org.

Library Endowment:  The Brown County Library has pledged to use the funds for an endowment which would benefit the library for years to come.

The Antiquarian Society is closing in on its $1.3 million total campaign goal:   Following the purchase of the artifacts, other costs will be incurred to restore and preserve them and to finance the three year pledges made by donors.  The Greater Green Bay Community Foundation will continue accepting contributions on behalf of the Antiquarian Society.  

Campaign recognition opportunities:
Supporters of this project will be recognized through media thank you ads, private donor reception, donor listing at the reception and exhibit programs that will accompany future exhibits for years to come.   Pledges may be paid over three years.  

Leader              $200,000 or more Steward            $150,000-199,999 Guardian           $100,000-149,999 Protector           $50,000-  99,999 Benefactor         $25,000-  49,999 Philanthropist     $Donors $24,000 and Under

Print Pledge Card:  http://antiquariansocietygbdp.org/doc/PledgeCardCulturalHeritageCampaign.pdf   Mail to:  Save Our Cultural History Campaign               C/0 Greater Green Bay Community Foundation               310 W. Walnut Street  Ste 350               Green Bay WI  54303

We have received endorsements from:

Jim Schmitt, Green Bay Mayor
Tom Hinz, Brown County Executive
Terry Watermolen, President, Brown County Library Board of Trustees
Eugene Umberger, Director, Neville Public Museum of Brown County
Paul Jadin, President, Green Bay Area Chamber of Commerce
Brown County Historical Society
De Pere Historical Society
Friends of the Library
Heritage Hill Corporation
Heritage Hill Foundation
National Railroad Museum
Neville Public Museum Foundation
Northeast Wisconsin Arts Council, Inc.
State Historical Society of Wisconsin

In December of 2007 the Antiquarian Society purchased the collection of community heritage artifacts owned by the library.  They include a rare  A. Lincoln signed photograph, presidential letters, paintings of local historic figures including Rufus B. Kellogg and Jean Nicolet, twenty-two oil paintings by artist Howard Pyle, oriental textiles, sculptures that were gifted to the library prior to a museum being established in Green Bay.