2018 Dinner and Silent Auction

A Rich History for a Brighter Future!

Join the Richmond Museum of History for a special event to raise funds for our K-12 school group program.

The Museum established a formal field trip program during the 2017/8 academic year offering transportation scholarships, free admission, and faciliated educational activities to classes from local schools. We served over 1,000 students between February and May 2018!! We need your help to continue this important program, so we can bring each and every child to the Richmond Museum of History during their time in the West Contra Costa Unified School District!?

Matthew Duffy, Superintendent of West Contra Costa Unified School District will be delivering a keynote speech.

Cost: $100 per person.?

Tickets will be on sale through the day of the event! Online ticket sales are now closed.

Please email us at melinda@richmondmuseum.org or call (510) 235-7387 to reserve your seats.?

Choose Your Meal


Check out a full list of our Silent Auction items!?

Item Donor Company/Org Value
Ratautoille Print from Pixar Lindsay Kraybill Museum Staff! $450
1 Night Stay Burlington Hotel Burlington Hotel $200
General Admission Tix (4) FAM SF FAM SF $15 x 4 = $60
General Admission Tix (4) Walt Disney Museum Walt Disney Museum $25 x 4 = $100
1 Family Pass Oakland Zoo Oakland Zoo $90
General Admission Tix (4) Cont Jewish Museum Cont Jewish Museum
General Admission Tix (2) ACT ACT
Tix (2) Adventure Cat Sailing Adventure Cat Sailing $90
4 bottles of wine Steve Brown Santa Rosa Plumbing $160
Private History Tour of Pt Richmond K Buchanan RMA/PRHA $100
Tix (2) SF MOMA SF MOMA $50
Tix (2) SF Giants Vs. Padres -/25 Republic Sanitary Republic Sanitary $330+ parking
Tix (4) – Men’s Soccer Game Hayley Witt Stanford Athletics $40
Wine Debbie Cristiano Page Mill
Local History LIbrary Various
Tix (2) Leah Curran Oakland Ballet $100
1 signed puck SJ Sharks $30
1 Sponsor-level membership Victor BAMPFA $175
Tour & Tasting (4) Erin Spirit Works $80
Fun Pack Pier 39 Pier 39 $163
Family Pass (2) -$45 each SS Jeremiah O’Brien SS Jeremiah O’Brien $90
3 bottles of wine + tasting cards Matt Railla Wine Guerrilla $74
10-Yr Club Football SF 49ers SF 49ers $50
2 adults 2 kids tickets Bay Area Children’s Theatre $104
2 sets of A’s Tickets John Z MA Hays
Signed Photo – Derek Law SF Giants $60
2 Tickets (Rear Cabaret/Balcony) Beach Blanket Babylon
Trader Joe’s Chocolate gift basket Lynn Maack Museum Personnel $50
Richmond History Basket Maack/Brown Museum Personnel $65
Taste of the United Kingdom basket Lynn Maack Museum Personnel $30
Anette’s Chocolates basket Lynn Maack Museum Personnel $40
4th of July basket Jayma Brown Museum Personnel $60
Sip n Spill Package Lagunitas Brewing Co $90
Tickets Berkeley Rep $160
Vintage Wines El Sobrante Historical
Dolphin Cruise Petaluma River Dolphin Cruise $80
2018 #1 A Navarro Cellar Sampler, 12pack I. Brooks-Myers Richmond Art Center $300
2011 Cabernet Sauvignon Magnum L. Maack Museum Personnel $175

Many thanks to our generous event sponsors!

Rosemary and Doug Corbin? ? ? John Ziesenhenne? ? ?Inez Brooks-Myers

 

The Richmond Museum Association Dinner Was a Huge Success!

Richmond Museum Association Fundraiser for ‘Revealing Hidden History’ Exhibit

The Richmond Museum Association Dinner on February 3, 2017 at the Richmond Country Club was a huge success!? This fundraiser benefited the renovation of the permanent exhibition Revealing Hidden History.?? Attendees enjoyed a silent auction, dinner, dancing and remarks by Dr. Kent Lightfoot from the University of California Berkeley.

 

RMA Fundraising Dinner at the Galileo Club on January 29, 2016!

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The Galileo Club hosted a dinner to benefit the Richmond Museum Association on January 29 and a good time was had by all the guests! Thank you to everyone who joined us on January 29, 2016 to Celebrate 1905 & the Incorporation of Richmond!

Thank you to Richmond resident Lisa Foote for capturing the evening in these lovely images!

Crab Feed aboard the SS Red Oak Victory a success!

On Saturday January 31, 2015, the crew of the SS Red Oak Victory (ROV) hosted the 1st ever crab feed aboard the ship in the special events room also known as cargo hold #4. The crew was so happy that everyone reported to be stuffed after a lovely evening of warm crab with butter sauce, Caesar salad, and artisan bread! The weather that day was unseasonably warm to the delight of the guests. Tickets were sold out over a week before the event, so we had a full house of 150 people!

A full house aboard the SS Red Oak Victory for the first ever crab feed!
A full house aboard the SS Red Oak Victory for the first ever crab feed!
Richmond Museum Association Board President John Ziesenhenne welcomes guests, with event planner Marsha Tomassi and main chef Victor Shepard.
Richmond Museum Association Board President John Ziesenhenne welcomes guests, with event planner Marsha Tomassi and main chef Victor Shepard.

The ROV crew was delighted to be joined by the Sea Scouts of the SS Northland??who helped the crew serve, bus tables, and clean up!! Thank you Sea Scouts! The ROV crew was also joined by Chef Jerry Clopp and the students of the Hercules High School Culinary Academy, who assisted Victor Shepard in preparing the food. Thank you students!

Crew of the SS Northland
Crew of the SS Northland

The following set of crab fest 2015 images were submitted by local leader Joe Fisher of Fisher Realty. Thanks Joe! The first crab fest was such a huge success, that we plan on doing it again next year. So check in with us in December 2015 for tickets to the 2016 RMA crab fest!

View of the Bay the evening of crab fest 2015
View of the Bay the evening of crab fest 2015
RMA board secretarhy Sandi Genser-Maack and Lynn Maack working the registration table
RMA board secretarhy Sandi Genser-Maack and Lynn Maack working the registration table
Stacey Dillon of Stacey & Co
Stacey Dillon of Stacey & Co
Bartenders John Z. and Nico of M.A. Hays
Bartenders John Z. and Nico of M.A. Hays
Guests before dinner
Guests before dinner
Time to eat!
Time to eat!
Everyone loved the crab
Everyone loved the crab
RMA Board vice-president Jeff Wright and his lovely wife Tyra Wright.
RMA Board vice-president Jeff Wright and his lovely wife Tyra Wright.
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Help the Richmond Museum of History Renovate the Permanent Exhibit!

The Richmond Museum of History is very proud to be one of the oldest organizations dedicated to local history in West County! Although many things get better with age, museum exhibits do not always age gracefully. The permanent exhibit at the Richmond Museum of History was installed in 1980 and we are excited to announce we are fundraising to renovate it! The exhibit renovation will be completed in stages by chronology, so the first area that will be redone is the Native American section of the permanent exhibit. Richmond was inhabited by Native Americans for thousands of years before arrival of the Spanish, and that time period has been the subject of considerable research.

The permanent exhibit will be interpretive, interactive, and accessible to all in our community when it is completely finished. We intend for the exhibit to present multiple points of view, so that all people in our diverse community will feel accurately represented. Will you please consider making a small donation toward the renovation effort?