Hood Research

For our Vote, Show us your Wright Membership

Candidates for elected office ask voters to trust them with the future of their community. But how committed are they to that community if they cannot even become a member of its local museum? Membership is more than writing a check it is a visible statement that a candidate values civic education, respects the community's history and cultural heritage, and recognizes the museum as an important community institution. If candidates want to represent the people, they should be willing to stand with the institutions that serve those people. A museum that loses funding and closes is not simply a building that disappears. The community loses a place of learning, a keeper of its history, and an attraction that helps draw tourists, businesses, and investment to the region. Elected officials who fail to support such an institution should be asked a straightforward question: If you will not support your community's museum, what does that say about your commitment to the community itself?   

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