Wheaton Village will receive donations quarterly. Donations will be paid to the Village by the participating merchants as a percentage of sales generated from this site. Although major gifts are most often donated for capital projects or endowments, the fiscal health of museums depends on contributions for general operating support. Yet it is this operating support that keeps the museum doors open and their staffs paid. Museums are bonded in a way that no other nation's cultural institutions are.
Museums serve as stewards of heritage, as educators and as community gathering places.
Museums are the keepers of the natural and cultural heritage of America and its people - the rich multicultural diversity that makes our nation so vibrant. Wheaton Village operates as a leading resource of American craft, with an emphasis on the medium of glass, a stronghold in New Jersey's cultural history. The Museum of American Glass is one of only nine museums in New Jersey, and the first in southern New Jersey, to earn accreditation by the American Association of Museums . All serve to educate a multi-level audience on the role of the crafts in both traditional and contemporary life. All rights reserved.