Donate

Your gift will help us maintain a secure future for the Log House Museum. Since opening in 1997, the Log House Museum has welcomed thousands of visitors through the front doors and into history. The Southwest Seattle Historical Society relies on donations of all kinds – time spent with us as a volunteer, Duwamish Peninsula historical artifacts, photos and documents, and monetary contributions. Contributions enable this museum to offer educational programs for all ages and abilities, develop quality exhibitions, and care for the stories to which we have been entrusted. The Log House Museum is your community. Your gift is important to the future and your support is deeply appreciated.

Artifact Donation

The Log House Museum houses the Southwest Seattle Historical Society’s photograph, artifact and document collection. Every year new materials are added to the collection through the generosity of individuals and organizations. These donations help us fulfill our mission as interpreters of the area – from Puget Sound on the west to the Duwamish River and Duwamish Head on the north to the Burien city line.

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If one has lived, worked, governed, created or built on the Duwamish Peninsula within we are interested in papers, photographs, receipts, diaries and artifacts documenting family, community, neighborhoods, religious life, sports, recreation, crime, leisure, education, transportation, business, politics, citizen action movements, urban planning, architecture and art. Our scope of collection encompasses the entire peninsula. Neighborhoods included are : Admiral, Alki, Westwood, The Alaska Junction, Highland Park, White Center, South Park, Fauntleroy, Delridge, Pigeon Point, Riverside, Genesee, Seaview, Fairmount Park, Arbor Heights, Roxbury, Morgan Street Junction and Sunset.

Business Sponsorship of the Log House Museum

Local businesses are being given the opportunity to support the Birthplace of Seattle-Log House Museum by becoming an annual Business Sponsor. By being a Business Sponsor of the Log House Museum, you will help provide essential sustaining funds for the Museum. The Museum offers hundreds of school children heritage education opportunities each month; preserves the remembrances of early West Side community members through professional oral history and Memory Book projects; provides a historically relevant speaker program; and serves as a welcoming base to area visitors and to local community members who have long needed a home to share and preserve their heritage and historical identities. The Log House Museum is a place to display local pride in community heritage but it needs community support to continue providing programs and to keep its doors open

Benefits

Personalized sponsorship plaque to display in your place of business
Public recognition, with other Business Members, in the Museum’s gallery
Subscription to the Southwest Seattle Historical Society’s quarterly newsletter, Footprints
Standing mention in the Footprints newsletter
Invitation to special Museum events for business owner/CEO
10%discount in the Museum gift shop for business owner/CEO
Satisfaction of providing vital financial sponsorship to an invaluable community resource

Annual Sponsorship Levels

$250
$500
$1000
$2500
$5000
$10,000
Other

Please support the Log House Museum by mailing a check or credit card information using a printed version of the sponsorship form. If you would like more information about this sponsorship program or would like to schedule a tour of the Museum, please call 206-938-5293.

Business Sponsorships are tax-deductible within the limits allowed by law. The Log House Museum is a project of the Southwest Seattle Historical Society, a 501(c)3 non-profit organization.

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Naming Opportunities

Naming opportunities are available throughout the restored 1904 log structure to accommodate the interests and generosity of donors. Naming opportunities can be made outright in honor or memory of loved ones and will be memorialized on engraved plaques.

Your naming gift benefits the work of the Southwest Seattle Historical Society and the Log House Museum.

The Founders Circle is a granite and marble art piece recognizing individuals, businesses, and agencies that comprise the Log House Museum’s major donors.

Leave a Legacy

A planned gift to a charitable organization like the Southwest Seattle Historical Society allows you to create a legacy for the Society while meeting your own financial and personal objectives. The SWSHS Legacy Fund offers three options:

SWSHS Society Legacy Program - A fund that provides support where it’s needed most.
Collections Fund - A fund used to support the maintenance and development of Society archives and includes increased public access.
Program Fund - A fund that permits the maintenance and expansion of education, outreach and exhibit programs

Gifts in Honor or Memory

Naming opportunities can be made outright in honor or memory of loved ones and will be memorialized on engraved plaques.

For further information please contact the Southwest Seattle Historical Society at (206) 938-5293 or loghousemuseum@comcast.net.