SPONSORSHIP OPPORTUNITIES
AND OTHER WAYS TO PARTICIPATE
Show your support for museum stores across the globe! There are many ways for MSA vendors to get involved and be a part Museum Store Sunday. Participate by sponsoring a Museum Store Sunday email campaign or social media post, partner with a store on an in-store or virtual event or communicate with your online audience about Museum Store Sunday.
SPONSORSHIPS
Highlight your brand to the over 2,100 participating museum stores across the globe through one of our sponsorships! Our affordable options help put your message front and center to an engaged audience of museum shop professionals looking for the best products and services. Interested in a custom sponsorship? We're happy to work with you on that as well. Contact communications@museumstoreassociation.org.
Email and Website Sponsorships
2024 SPONSOR (Only 5 Available) $1,000
Our premier sponsorship level features your business with a clickable company logo on the “2023 Sponsor” page of the Museum Store Sunday website. Highlighted, clickable logo on all Museum Store Sunday email marketing campaigns, acknowledgement as a 2023 Sponsor in 2 social media posts, recognition at the closing of the Museum Store Sunday Webinar and recognition in the fall issue of Museum Store Magazine.
If you are interested send an email to communications@museumstoreassociation.org
ADVERTISING SPONSOR: Clickable Ads and Your Logo$500
You’ll enjoy the exposure of Museum Store Sunday emails and the Museum Store Sunday Registration Page!
A clickable ad in 2 emails sent to Museum Store Sunday participating museum stores (position in email to be determined by MSA based on order of submissions received) and your clickable company logo on the Museum Store Sunday Registration page (the most visited B2B page on the Museum Store Sunday website!)
Ad Specs: 1100 x 180 pixels, jpg
Email Ad Sponsor: Your Clickable Ad In Our Email Campaign $300
This option helps put your brand top of mind with a clickable ad in two (2) emails sent to Museum Store Sunday participating museum stores (position in email to be determined by MSA based on order of submissions received).
Link your ad to your home page or eCommerce site and drive more traffic to your products and services!
Ad Specs: 1100 x 180 pixels, jpg
Museum Store Sunday Webinar Sponsorships $750
Your company logo displayed on the opening and closing slides of the Museum Store Sunday instructional webinar (recorded and available afterward in the Tool Kit), and a clickable ad in the webinar e-vite sent to Museum Store Sunday participants and all MSA members. This sponsorship also includes the opportunity to speak to the audience about your company and products for 60 seconds at the end of the webinar.
Email Ad Specs: 1100 x 180 pixels, jpg
Email Product Features $200 - $500
Feature your product in a special product feature section in emails sent to Museum Store Sunday participating museum stores. The section includes rows of three vendor products, including a product image, vendor name, product name, and URL link.
Three Products: $500
One Product: $200
Social Media Sponsorship $125
An MSA-created post on the Museum Store Sunday Facebook page featuring your company and products (can be added to the options above or purchased alone)
If you're interested, email communications@museumstoreassociation.org
Sponsorship Email and Social Media Statistics
Current email audience:
1,400
Museum Store Sunday participating stores
(note: new registrants are automatically registered for emails)2022 email rates:
43.9%
average open rate
8.86%
average click-through rate
Current Museum Store Sunday Facebook audience:
4,800
consumers, museums, and museum stores
IN-STORE OR VIRTUAL EVENTS
Reach out to a local museum store to discuss partnering on a special event or product promotion.
Possible in-store events include trunk shows, product demonstrations and displays, or meet the artist events. If you wish to stay virtual, consider Zoom or Facebook/Instagram Live trunk shows, demos, or studio tours, or recorded interviews to embed on museum store websites.
Once you have an event planned with a museum store partner, be sure to promote it on your social media, website, and emails! (See below for more ways to show support for Museum Store Sunday online.)
ONLINE SUPPORT
Communicating to your online audience is an easy way to participate in Museum Store Sunday!
Whether you partner with a museum store on social media posts, or simply add the Museum Store Sunday logo to your website, we appreciate your support.
Plan cross-posts on social media with museum store partners, featuring your product displays in their store or a special Museum Store Sunday event.
Tag museum stores that sell your products and are participating in Museum Store Sunday in your social media posts, encouraging your followers to shop for your products on Museum Store Sunday.
Collaborate with museum stores to create "meet the maker" emails, videos (live or recorded), or social media posts.
Share our Museum Store Sunday logo on your website or use our special social media graphics for posts.
Promote Museum Store Sunday as you send holiday-shopping email reminders to your customers.
Photo courtesy Annapolis Maritime Museum/Catherine Morrill
Click here to download a zip file of the Museum Store Sunday logos, web banners, and social media graphics.
Questions? Email communications@museumstoreassociation.org