Help Preserve What Matters.

Since 1952, ICA has helped museums, libraries, archives, artists, historic sites, and families care for the objects that tell our stories.


Every gift helps us conserve art, train future conservators, provide free consultations, and share preservation knowledge with everyone who wants to protect the things they love.

Donate Today

“Every masterpiece deserves someone in its corner.” — Oddy the Otter

Why Your Gift Matters

Conserve

Support the treatment and preservation of art, artifacts, and cultural heritage.

Educate

Help provide free webinars, lab tours, internships, and training for the next generation.

Connect

Support free consultations, outreach, preservation advice, and advocacy for collecting institutions and individuals.

Ways You Can Help

Give Online

Support ICA with a one-time or recurring gift.

Shop Our Wish List

Purchase conservation supplies and equipment that are used every day in the laboratory (or that we’d like to use every day).

Become a Significant Otter

“Otters know a thing or two about taking care of treasures.”


Join a growing community of people who believe our shared cultural heritage deserves expert care and should be preserved for future generations.


Annual gifts of $400 or more welcome you as one of ICA’s Significant Otters. As a small token of our appreciation, you’ll receive a limited-edition thank-you gift and an invitation to our annual Open House, where you’ll have the opportunity to meet our conservators, explore the laboratory, and see conservation in action.


More importantly, you’ll know that your generosity is helping preserve art, train the next generation of conservators, and make conservation knowledge accessible to everyone.

Additional Ways to Give

Donor-Advised Funds

If you recommend grants through a donor-advised fund, please use:

Legal Name

Intermuseum Conservation Association


EIN

34-0753538

Employer Matching Gifts

Many employers match charitable contributions, doubling—or even tripling—the impact of your gift.


Please check with your Human Resources department to see whether your company participates.

Every Object Has a Story.

So does every donor.


Your gift may help conserve a historic painting, preserve a family’s heirloom, mentor a future conservator, or answer a small museum’s urgent preservation question.


Whatever brings you here, thank you for becoming part of that story.

Founded in 1952, ICA is the nation’s oldest nonprofit art conservation center in the country.


Every gift helps preserve our shared cultural heritage.