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THE PURCHASING CO-OP
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Stretch your museum dollar with Special Discounts
Discounts on Acid –Free Conservation Products and More!
The Purchasing CO-OP through MPMA offers a selection of acid-free collections-care products.
List of products available for purchase through the CO-OP (download word document)
Shopping for collection-care items can be expensive, but you can save lots of money if you use the Purchasing CO-OP. As an MPMA’s Institutional member, you are eligible for MPMA’s exclusive member discounts through the CO-OP. These discounts are on top of many discounts usually available from businesses selling conservation supplies. If you'd like to save more money than you thought possible on your next order of collections-care products, the Purchasing CO-OP can help you save a real bundle.
You may not realize the Purchasing CO-OP has some of the best bargains on conservation supplies. If you want deep discounts on acid-free folders, tissue, boxes, etc., all you have to do is become an MPMA Institutional Member. "It's kind of nice because you can sit in your chair, order from MPMA’s list of products and your boss is ecstatic because you saved the museum a load of money," said Jenny Yearous, Curator of Collections Management, State Historical Society of North Dakota. “And shipping is usually free.”
Here is what Jenny saved during her recent shelving project:
Value of items purchased: $4286.55
Total spent to date: $2095.22
Total savings $2191.33
“It is official: I have now saved more than I have spent... the savings have definitely paid for our MPMA membership for the next couple of years. I will definitely use the CO-OP again and will tell my friends about it."
About the Purchasing CO-OP
Since the 1990s, the Purchasing CO-OP has been a leading shopping destination for collections-care products for museums. Our goal is to help institutions save money. We do this by providing collections managers, registrars curators and directors a quick and easy way to find and purchase acid-free products and more from reputable conservation-oriented businesses. Our CO-OP offers the deepest discounts on choice products because we set up a bid process to get companies to compete for items. No one else has a bidding process like ours, and yet this is the ONLY way to get deeper discounts.
We offer a clean, no-hassle interface. All you do is become an institutional member of MPMA, and we will send you a list of products in the CO-OP as well as the companies plus the special CO-OP code needed to get the deep discounts from each company. You do the ordering and arrange shipping details with the company. If you would like to see a list of products in the CO-OP, see the link below. Or call us at 303-979-9358.
List of products available for purchase through the CO-OP (download word document)