Your Invitation to Membership in
The Amati Society

The three generations of the Amati family were chosen as the symbol of this group, not only because their superb instruments, such as Girolamo Amati's piccolo violin (1613) shown here, have delighted so many people over the years, but also because they represent the enduring quality that is the NMM. It was in the workshop of Andrea Amati in Cremona, Italy, in the 1560s, that the form of the instruments of the modern violin family first crystallized.

Today, of the dozen or so Andrea Amati instruments known to survive, the NMM proudly exhibits the only quartet of his instruments to be found in any one location.

Membership in The Amati Society is available to those who name the National Music Museum in their estate plans in one or more of the following ways:

  including a bequest for the benefit of the NMM in your will or trust
  participating in a life income arrangement or a charitable remainder trust
  creating a charitable lead trust for the benefit of the NMM
  naming the NMM as the beneficiary of a retirement plan or a life insurance policy

For more information about how you can become a member of The Amati Society, please write or call the Office of the Director of the NMM at the address below.