Member Appreciation Week 2026

5th Annual Member Appreciation Week 

Saturday, July 11 - Friday, July 17

Free to members

To celebrate our members, we have planned a week of special programs, discounts, giveaways, and more. Thank you for your continued support!

All week: 

Extra Discount: Members receive a 20 percent discount (instead of the usual 10 percent) in store and online. 

Enter to win in a Lifetime Family Membership: Members who visit the museum this week can enter to win a Lifetime Family Museum Membership while on site! 

Family Activities: Play with words while creating unique flowers in the Donna Fielding Discovery Room, become landscape architects by designing your own unique garden.
 

Tell us about you

We want to know your story. Go to eastman.org/memberweek to share why you are a member at George Eastman Museum.

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Member Appreciation Week Programs

Saturday, July 11

12-2 p.m.: Celebrate George Eastman's Birthday with games on the Front Lawn

Sunday, July 12

12:30 p.m.: Enjoy a Landscape Tour (subject to docent availability)

2 p.m.: Member Movie, Tow (2026), Dryden Theatre. Free to members.

All day: For members who visit today on George Eastman's Birthday, pick up a special gift at the Admissions Desk.

Tuesday, July 14

3 p.m.: One-on-one with Gloria Swanson, 7Crest Financial Partners Hall, Advance registration required.

Join Head of Library and Archives Ken Fox for a conversation featuring legendary screen star Gloria Swanson. Recorded in 1958, this rare interview is one of the many audiovisual artifacts preserved as part of an ongoing digitization project supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services. Accompanied by rare photos from our Moving Image Stills, Posters, and Paper Collection.

7:30 p.m.: Member Movie, For All Mankind (1989), Dryden Theatre, Free to members

Wednesday, July 15

1-3 p.m.: The Reel Thing: Looking at Movies from a New Angle, Engagement Table in the Potter Peristyle

Get a behind-the-scenes look at the process and equipment involved in maintaining the film collection with Deb Stoiber, collection manager, Moving Image Department.

2-6 p.m.: Mobile Museum of Tolerance, Parking lot by the West Garden

Educators will facilitate a workshop about the relationship between photography and testimony, while children's activities will be offered outside.

6-8 p.m.: Garden Vibes with Mosaic Foundation, East Lawn

Gates open at 5 p.m. Members received discounted admission for the Garden Vibes concert series each summer!

Thursday, July 16

12-2 p.m.: Highlights from the Stills, Posters, and Paper Collection, Engagement Table in the Potter Peristyle

Explore a variety of object that illustrate the history of motion picture production and promotion with Sophia Lorent, assistant archivist, Stills, Posters, and Paper Collection.

Friday, July 17

1 p.m.: Members-Only Virtual Talk: Edward Steichen - Bio Artist, Online, Registration required

Join Sarah Anne McNear, curator of the exhibition Edward Steichen and the Garden, to learn more about Steichen's belief that plant breeding is an art form, and explore his legacy in the contemporary field of "bio art."