National Trust Historic Sites membership fees

Most National Trust Historic Sites offer a their own membership program in addition to the one for the National Trust for Historic Preservation and every year or so we like to offer a comparison so that Sites can evaluate the fees. Intern Stephen Neuhauser recently assembled these fees into a chart and I offer [...]

Web Sites for Historic Sites: What Visitors Want

A friend just passed along an interesting study by Kerry Bodine at Forrester Research, Inc. on “what consumers want on travel web sites”. The entire article is available for a fee at www.forrester.com but historic sites may want to review this quick overview if they are designing or modifying their Web sites:

Many consumers (33-46 [...]

Tenement Museum adding Evening Tours

This year, the Lower East Side Tenement Museum, a National Trust Historic Site in New York City, has seen an overwhelming growth in attendance—March 2008 was the third-busiest month in the museum’s 20 year history. So from May 1 to October 30, the Tenement Museum will stay open late on Thursdays for tours at [...]

Admission fees for National Trust Historic Sites

A review of admission fees at National Trust Historic Sites shows that they range from a low of $4 (Hotel de Paris Museum) to a high of $25 (Glass House), not counting five sites that are free. The median fees are $11 for adults (general admission), $8 for seniors, and $4 for children. [...]

Cliveden now part of the Network to Freedom

The National Park Service has recognized Cliveden, a National Trust Historic Site, as part of the “Network to Freedom,” a program that preserves, researches, and presents the history of the Underground Railroad and the struggle for freedom in America. This qualifies Cliveden to pursue federal grant funds to develop programming based [...]