Thank you for thinking of the Massillon Museum for the home of your historic object.

Please schedule an appointment with the staff so that we may give you the attention and time you deserve. We are not legally allowed to accept anonymous donations. We will ask you to fill out a form so that we can properly document your item and track where objects come from.

Who should you contact?

Bailey Yoder Curator of Football Heritage Contact by email Phone number: 330-833-4061 x 116 Contact Bailey for donations related to professional and high school football, Paul Brown, and the Tiger Swing Band. Mandy Altimus Stahl Archivist Contact by email Phone number: 330-833-4061 x 113 Contact Mandy for questions related to 2-D and 3-D artifacts, including archives, documents, photographs, blueprints, as well as questions related to clothing, furniture, paintings, household items, and any other three-dimensional artifacts.

Sponsorships & Donations:

Adopt-a-drawer or adopt-a-box

The storage of items in our collections and archives is costly. Your donation can go to  house a specific collection, item, or shelf within the state-of-the-art collections storage room.

Adopt-a-Drawer: You can sponsor a cabinet drawer that will hold some of the collections more fragile artifacts. Your name will be placed on a plaque on the cabinet drawer acknowledging your contribution. In addition, your name will be listed on the Preservation Honor Roll on our website and in our quarterly newsletter.
Levels: $75 half drawer / $150 full drawer

Adopt-a-Box: You can sponsor an archival box that will hold Museum materials such as Civil War letters, city ledgers, or photographs. Your name will appear on the outside of the box acknowledging your contribution. In addition, your name will listed on Preservation Honor Roll on our website and in our quarterly newsletter.
Levels: $10 one box / $25 three boxes

To read more about the award-winning storage space, please click here, or you can email Archivist Mandy Altimus Stahl about your sponsorship!

Artifact Donations:

Items we are looking for:

Newspapers pre-1900:

such as the Massillon Evening Item, Massillon Gleaner, Massillon Weekly Union

Massillon Washington High School Yearbooks:

(updated September 2019)

Massillon Schools Middle School/Junior High yearbooks:

Items we are NOT accepting:

Hats from 1900-present
Yearbooks not listed above
McGuffy Readers
Massillon Independent Newspapers or modern newspapers

Where to take your Yearbooks:

If we decide not to accept your yearbook, there are two places we suggest you contact:

Washington High School Alumni Association
207 Oak Ave SE, Massillon, OH 44646
(330) 832-1224
Click here to visit their website.
Click here for a list of yearbooks they are seeking.

Appraisals

Massillon Museum staff can help you look at your item for an initial assessment (example: whether your framed piece is an original or a printed poster).

Unfortunately the Massillon Museum cannot help you appraise the value of an object. We would suggest, however, that you contact the appraiser we go to for our questions:

WIPIAK CONSULTING AND APPRAISALS: Andrew Richmond
Phone 740.760.1788
Decorative arts, fine arts, estate
Wipiak Consulting and Appraisals' Website
Email Andrew

CRAIG PERSONAL JEWELERS: Fred Craig
Phone: 330.492.8822
Jewelry
Craig Person Jewelers' Website
Email Craig

Conservation & Restoration

We suggest you contact these places:

Intermuseum Conservation Association
http://www.ica-artconservation.org
2915 Detroit Ave., Cleveland, OH 44113
Phone: (216) 658-8700
Email: ica@ica-artconservation.org

McKay Lodge Fine Arts Conservation Laboratory, Inc.
Specializes in works of art on paper and canvas
http://www.mckaylodge.com/
10915 Pyle-South Anherst Rd., Oberlin, OH 44074
Phone: (440) 774-4215
E-mail: mckaylodge@gmail.com

Special Collections Conservation Services (SCCS), Janet English Heller
Specializes in works of art on paper and canvas, maps, documents, collection surveys
128 Morgan Street, Oberlin, OH 44074
Phone: (800) 408-7227
Email: mheller@oberlin.net

Esper Bindery, Karen Esper
Book binding, paper conservation-restoration, wet book recovery
http://esperbindery.com/
2800 E. 55th St., Cleveland, OH 44104
Phone: (216) 431-1221

DIY Preservation & Museum improvements

Or use one of these professional websites for DIY projects or Museum improvements:

Preservation Briefs from the National Parks Service
https://www.nps.gov/tps/how-to-preserve/briefs.htm

Northeast Document Conservation Center
https://www.nedcc.org/