Supporting the College in to the future
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Friends of Girton Lawrence Room
Girton’s Lawrence Room collections offer unique insight into College history. Hermione, our beautiful and unequalled portrait mummy, is joined by archaeological finds from as close at hand as the College site and as far away as Mesopotamia in offering material evidence of the interests and scholarship of Girtonians past and present.
A new display showcases Girton’s treasures, and a complete electronic catalogue now makes the Lawrence Room collections accessible to the public and researchers alike. The generosity of Friends and Patrons of the Lawrence Room is vital in ensuring the environmental monitoring, conservation, ongoing curation and security of these expanding collections. Donations meet small costs and large, ranging from an annual filter change for Hermione’s state-of-the-art display cabinet to the establishment of an endowment that will meet annual running costs of £3,700 and support the management of the collections into the future.
Friends of the Lawrence Room receive an invitation to an annual event and, if they wish, are commemorated in the Donors’ Book. In addition, every year Patrons are sent an illustrated card highlighting recent research concerning a select object from these fascinating collections.
If you would like to subscribe to become a Friend or Patron of the Lawrence Room, then you can either donate online by credit or debit card, download a donation form or request a Friends brochure by contacting development@girton.cam.ac.uk