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2250 - Fairfield Museum & History Center

2250 Budget Requests
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FY20
FY21
FY22
FY23
FY24 REQUESTED
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58500
CONTRIBUTIONS TO OTHER AGENCIES
50,000
50,000
60,000
60,000
72,000
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Founded in 1903, the Fairfield Museum is an arts and humanities organization of state-wide renown. Fairfield Museum believes in the power of history to inspire imagination, stimulate thought, and transform society. Central to our community-focused mission is a desire to provide important historical context to pressing issues of our time, and to offer a safe, trustworthy environment where multiple perspectives can be heard and collective solutions explored. We operate the Fairfield Museum and History Center on the Town Green, as well as the unique 1750 Ogden House in Greenfield Hill, and we manage three Town-owned historic properties.
Fairfield Museum is a vibrant center for community life that annually attracts more than 30,000 visitors who generate an estimated $4 million in related economic activity for the Town. The Museum works closely with Fairfield schools to provide essential programs in social studies, literature, art and other disciplines for more than 4,000 K-12 students, including all Fairfield Public School 3rd and 5th graders. Museum programs directly support local and state curriculum, and empower students and their families to become lifelong learners. During the 2020-21 pandemic, the Museum raised $15,000 in private funding to create new online learning resources for Fairfield students to learn about their community’s history and civics that continue to provide an important resource for Fairfield teachers. Fairfield Museum presents more than 250 adult and family programs each year, many of them free of charge, that explore the Town’s rich history and encourage Fairfielders to be more active participants in their community. Our work has received several state and national awards.
Over the past decade, the Fairfield Museum has raised more than $1.3 million in outside funding to restore and maintain five Town-owned historic properties. The Museum preserves thousands of rare manuscripts and artifacts documenting moe than 400 years of our Town’s history and is among the best resources for Connecticut history, used by hundreds of students, scholars and researchers each year. Museum-organized free community events like Halloween on the Green, Memorial Day Picnic, Free Jazz Fridays, and other events on the Museum Commons are much-loved, multi-generational traditions that draw thousands of visitors and significantly enhance quality of life and civic pride for Fairfield residents.
In FY 2022, 97% of the Museum’s operational funding will come from private community support, earned income and other sources outside of Town funding. The requested $60,000 Town contribution for FY 2023-24 is unchanged from the previous year. Those funds will significantly help the Museum recover from the economic downturn and better allow us to leverage more than $750,000 in private contributions that in turn help support free community programs and events for all Fairfield residents. Support from the Town is a crucial indication that the community values the contributions of private donors and foundations to Fairfield’s cultural and educational quality of life, and is vital to our ongoing fundraising efforts.
The amount listed here also includes $12,000 for an agreement between the Town and the Museum for management of certain properties.
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