Saratoga Springs History Museum
2026 Year-End Appeal
Keep Saratoga Springs’ story in reach.
Help preserve the history of this community and keep it available for people to discover.
A school visit, a question about a familiar place, a photograph that brings back a memory. These connections depend on the work of the museum. Your year-end gift supports the staff, collections, programs and daily operations that make them possible.
Make a year-end giftYour gift supports the whole museum. Membership dues are separate.
The work your gift sustains
History needs people to keep it in reach.
The collections are only part of what it takes. Behind every exhibition and visit are people caring for objects, researching their stories and helping others understand them. Your support sustains that work.
Preserve the collections.
Support the care of photographs, objects and records entrusted to the museum, so they remain available for future generations.
Find the stories.
Support the staff time and research that connect a name, a place or an object with its history and help answer questions about our community.
Make room for discovery.
Support the preparation and daily work behind exhibitions, school visits and public programs that bring people into Saratoga Springs’ history.
Looking toward 2027
Make a gift for the museum’s year ahead.
If Saratoga Springs’ history matters to you, please help us continue this work. Your year-end gift supports the people and daily needs behind the collections, research and programs we share.
Your gift supports the museum as a whole, allowing us to put it to work where it is needed most.
Will you make a year-end gift of $100, $250 or an amount that is right for you?
Make a year-end giftAnnual appeal gifts are separate from membership dues. If you have already given to this year’s appeal, thank you.
Questions about giving?
We would be glad to help.
L. Blake Harvey
Development Officer
bharvey@saratogahistory.org
(518) 584-6920 ext. 104
Give by mail
Send your check to:
Saratoga Springs History Museum
P.O. Box 216
Saratoga Springs, NY 12866
Photograph courtesy of Saratoga Springs History Museum.
A collection entrusted to us
A gift that still opens a window onto Saratoga Springs.
In 1989, George S. Bolster left his photographic collection to the Historical Society of Saratoga Springs. His own photographs and the work he saved from earlier photographers preserve local people, businesses and everyday life.
That gift came with a lasting responsibility: to care for the images and help people understand what they show. A photograph becomes more useful when someone can connect it with a person, a place or a story.
The Bolster Collection is one example of the work your annual appeal gift sustains across the museum. Your support helps us continue caring for our collections and sharing the history in them.