Welcome to the Tigertail Virtual Museum.

For five years all the Tigertail Virtual Museum resources were open to everyone. But our Internet traffic became so large that freely given contributions failed to support museum costs.

To help raise money we put on a fund raising effort that by any standard was a disaster. In one week we got less than $100 in contributions. Yet more than 10,000 people a day were using the site and seeing the request for donations.

Another way to raise money might be to place advertising in the museum. The Tigertail Associates Board felt this was undesireable and leads to what goes on in public television and radio which are non-commercial institutions that constantly push commercials. Instead the Board felt that the only way to stem the costs of running the site was to rely on the users of the site to help support it. So starting in the first week of June 2004 we instituted a museum membership program where people could donate $25/per year to help keep the museum on the web. In return for membership we would allow access to the medium and large images as well as other materials we were afraid to put on the website since they would tend to cause more unafforable Internet traffic.

We no longer have the staff nor time to answer email questions nor provide advice about art topics except to museum members. While we do have many very high resolution images for some images in the museum we will only provide these to members on request.

Membership Center:

• Museum Membership. Join our support team for $25 per year.
• Membership Status. See your membership status and when your membership expires.
• Get a Lost Password. Get a new password for your membership.
• Password Change. Change your membership password.
• Membership Update. Update Your Museum Membership information.
• Change E-mail. Change your Membership E-mail address.

Schools and Educational institutions that want access to our resources can get class accounts at moderate rates for limited times. Just contact the museum for more information. Yearly educational rates are also available for institutions.

By somewhat dubious demand, many people would like free access to see the large images on the site. For the deserving few one can apply for a TVM Scholarship.

For those who would like to see us grant more museum scholarships and would like to contribute $500 or more to help. Just contact the museum by sending email to info@tigtail.org. If you want to place restrictions on what kind of people recieve scholarships, we can try and follow your wishes, but we are limited on what we know about the applicants for scholarships. You will get feedback on who gets the scholarships you fund, how much information will vary according to the wishes of the applicant.

Contacting the museum via email has become less reliable because of the amount of spam we recieve, over a thousand messages a day of which more than 99% are junk mail. If you mail gets lost, do try again. We are tring to work out a better scheme for communication.