HOW TO CONTRIBUTE
We welcome your support to help pursue Our Mission.

Mailing Address: 312 West San Antonio St., Fredericksburg, Texas 78624              
 Email: info@pioneermuseum.net      ■      Phone: (830) 997-2835      ■      Fax: (830) 997-3891 

Contribute funding

A monetary donation is always welcome to help facilitate the care, housing and exhibition of the Society’s vast collection. Your donation may be used to purchase archival supplies, computer equipment, or cabinetry to house our textile or art collection. Additionally, your dollars could help fund a digitization project of the photography and newspaper collection, restoration projects on our historic buildings, create exhibit space in our future master planning phases, and so much more.

Contribute a document, photograph or object

The Gillespie County Historical Society’s collection is remarkably rich and varied. There are still many unknown documents, photographs and other materials in existence that could provide additional insight into the immigration to and settlement of the Texas Hill Country and the 150+ years of Fredericksburg history.

Contribute your story

What is it that binds us together as a community? The answer lies in the stories of each Gillespie County individual and family from the earliest days to the present. While these stories can be found in photographs, diaries and newspapers, it is in personal memories and family stories that the past comes to life.

By participating in an Oral History interview, you can help create a more complete record of the people who built our community. Your memories of the past and your family stories and traditions can help to humanize and animate our community’s history for generations to come.

Contribute your time

Would you like to volunteer your time in the GCHS collections? We are seeking help with:

• Identifying cataloging and digitizing photographs
• Database management (creating artifact and donor records in a museum software database)
• Inventory (includes cleaning labeling photographing and wrapping/boxing artifacts)
• General housekeeping of historic structures and exhibited artifacts
• Conduct research (includes artifacts genealogy exhibits)
• Conduct and transcribe oral histories

Please note that we will train you in any area that you select

See our Wish List here

Learn more about these and other opportunities to volunteer!