Friends of the Missouri Historic
Costume and Textile Collection

Benefits of Sponsorship

• Sponsors are welcome to participate in semi-annual meetings when new acquisitions and old treasures will be on view.

• Periodic group trips to museums and special events are open to sponsors.

• Sponsors are welcome to assist in exhibition preparation and exhibition openings.

• Sponsors will have the satisfaction of supporting an important historical and cultural resource to be used by future generations.

• Those who have contributed at the Director level will have their names inscribed in the Sponsors Showcase in the Collection Research Center. 

• Friends’ names and sponsorship levels will be noted in honor roll lists in various College publications. 

• Sponsors at the Curator, Conservator and Director levels will belong to the Vanguard Society, which recognizes Alumni and Friends of the College of Human Environmental Sciences and also the University of Missouri-Columbia’s Jefferson Club for their active participation and philanthropy.