September 16

Founders’ Day

Celebrate Sandy Spring Museum’s history and help carry its work in cultural heritage and community connection forward.

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Four Sandy Spring Museum supporters stand outside the museum.

Why Founders’ Day Matters

Founders Day is Sandy Spring Museum’s one day a year to rally the whole community.

Every gift keeps this museum doing work that matters: preserving history that deserves to be remembered, the celebrated stories and the ones too often left out, and connecting neighbors who don’t always find reason to connect.

It also gives you something back: belonging. As author Brené Brown puts it, belonging is “being somewhere you want to be, and they want you”. That’s rare these days, and it’s exactly what Founders Day offers.

Sandy Spring Museum community members gather around a cake at the museum’s 25th anniversary celebration.
A presenter speaks at Sandy Spring Museum’s first meeting in Delmas in 1980.
Community members gather for a Sandy Spring Museum meeting in 1982.
Secretary Margie Cook and President Willard Derrick in a 1976 newspaper photograph.
Drummers perform in the Sandy Spring Museum courtyard during the Strawberry Festival.
Visitors gather outside Sandy Spring Museum during the Strawberry Festival.
A performer in a colorful costume at the Strawberry Festival.

You can get us started with a donation today.

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Already gave? Thank you. Now invite a friend to join you. Founders Day isn’t just about funding a mission; it’s about belonging to one.

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