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September 19, 2024 2024 Giving Guide

Owls Head Transportation Museum

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

2025 Goals

  • Reach our Capital Campaign goal and complete our program and facility plans. These improvements will enable us to provide STEM educational opportunities to our Maine Community becoming the hub of learning and innovations. The new footprint with flexible spaces lets the museum draw on our expertise, collections and resources to offer students and visitors exciting new programs and learning opportunities.

  • OHTM’s STEM education goal is to have the capability of engaging K-8 students in all 16 Maine counties, either at the museum, on-site at schools or through remote learning. During the 2023/2024 school year OHTM’s STEM educators engaged students in 30 schools in seven Maine counties. Through hands-on and experiential learning activities, critical thinking and problem-solving skills are developed which energize students and expose them to skills that offer the potential for high-paying STEM careers, bolstering Maines future workforce.

Fundraising events/Opportunities

New England Auto Auction™ – Vehicles can be DONATED or consigned to the New England Auto Auction™. Businesses can be a sponsor for this event at multiple levels with a variety of benefits. All proceeds provide core support in sustaining the museum’s mission to educate, demonstrate and preserve. Email auction@ohtm.org to find out more!

STEM FEST 2025 / School Field Trip Day + Free to the Public Day – STEM related businesses can support this event by being an exhibitor with hands-on demonstrations for K-8 students, exposing them to potential STEM related job opportunities (supporting work force development). Businesses can also sponsor this event at multiple levels with a variety of benefits. Sponsorship proceeds help cover transportation costs for schools to attend this event. This benefits schools that would otherwise not have the budget to send their students. For more information contact OHTM’s Education Director: mgalinsky@ohtm.org

Giving Opportunities

Capital Campaign – Help us reach our goal of $12.25 million! We have raised almost $8 million toward expanding our vision, programs and facility to become a STEM education leaning and community center. The new footprint with flexible spaces lets the museum draw on our expertise, collections and resources to offer students and visitors exciting new programs. Facility changes will also improve the overall experience for the tens of thousands from around the world who visit the museum.

Donations and Annual Giving Appeals provide core support in sustaining the museum’s mission to preserve, demonstrate and educate—as well as keeping our facility operational and open as a resource to the community. For more information on how you can make a difference: development@ohtm.org

Sponsorship Opportunities – can be customized to fit businesses at multiple levels with a variety of benefits. Reach your target markets while benefiting the museum and all its great programs and events. For more information: development@ohtm.org

Membership – is the easiest way to support the museum and stay in touch with all its great programs and events.

Visit owlshead.org to find out about ways to give!

Volunteer Opportunities

Board and committee opportunities available. Contact John Bottero at jb@ohtm.org for more information.

Museum Volunteers – whether your passion is vintage cars, giving tours, working in our archives, handling admissions, flying planes or heading to the schools for educational outreach, the possibilities are endless.

Visit owlshead.org to find out about the volunteer options that pique your interest!

Leadership

 

Thomas H. Rudder
Chair

John D. Bottero
Executive Director

 

Board officers

Thomas H. Rudder, Chairman

John D. Karp, Board Treasurer

John C. Harris, Secretary

 

Board Members

Charles T. Akre

Duncan W. Brown

Richard Cease

Rodney D. Gray

Steve H. Levesque

John S. Reed

James S. Rockefeller Jr., Founder

Kathy Swift

Lawrence M. Woodworth

At A Glance

 

Established: Founded in 1975

Employees: 23

Annual revenue: $2.23 million

Top funding sources

45% Earned revenue

36% Individual and foundation contributions

18% Other

1% Corporate donations

Contact

117 Museum St.,

Owls Head, ME 04854

207-594-4418

OWLSHEAD.ORG

facebook.com/OwlsHeadTransportationMuseum

instagram.com/owlshead_transportation_museum

Awards/Accolades

• National Association of Automobile Museums Award / STEM FEST 2024 Educational Program

• National Association of Automobile Museums Award / 2024 Best Museum Publication

• 2023 Amelia Concours Elegance – Historic Preservation / 1913 Rolls-Royce 40/50 Silver Ghost

• 2025 Congressionally Directed Spending (CDS) request for “STEM Community Center” moved forward to appropriations by both Senator King and Senator Collins offices (pending)

Mission Statement

The Owls Head Transportation Museum is a nonprofit educational organization. Its mission is to collect, preserve, exhibit and operate pre-1940 aircraft, ground vehicles, engines and related technologies significant to the evolution of transportation for the purpose of education.

Service locations

The Owls Head Transportation Museum welcomes guests from around the world. Our expanding STEM Education Program currently serves Kennebec, Knox, Lincoln, Penobscot, Sagadahoc, Waldo and York counties either at the museum, at schools or through remote education.