Bruce Museum Inc.

“The organization amended its by-laws during the may 2024. "the following changes in the composition and duties of the governing body's voting members were made: 1. Changes to the roles and responsibilities of each position after recommendation by the executive committee 2. The board may determine if one or two people should be in the office 3. The creating of additional committees”

“Bmi has various classes of membership as authorized by the board of trustees. Each class is entitled to one vote on each matter submitted to a vote of the members, including the election of trustees at the annual meeting of the members. The persons who comprise a family membership are entitled to one vote on each matter. Members are not entitled to receive a share of the organization's profits or excess dues, or a share of the organization's net assets upon the organization's dissolution.”

“Pursuant to the management agreement between bmi and the town of greenwich, the town of greenwich designates three trustees with voting rights to the board of bmi. The members of bmi elect the remaining trustees at the annual meeting of the members, by a majority vote of the members entitled to vote who are present in person or by written proxy.”

“The organization has its form 990 prepared by an outside accounting firm. Once the form 990 is prepared, it is reviewed by the cfo and is presented to the audit committee. Once approved by the audit committee, the public disclosure copy of the return is distributed to all members of the board of trustees prior to filing with the irs.”

“Bmi has a conflict of interest policy within its code of ethics which covers the board of trustees as well as the organization's staff and volunteers. All officers and trustees are required to disclose annually any potential conflicts of interest. Per the terms of this policy, a trustee may not vote on, approve, or recommend approval of a transaction between the museum and that trustee or immediate family member, and must disclose any potential conflict prior to a vote or other action. If such trustee is present when a matter involving a potential conflict of interest is considered, he or she must leave the meeting during that discussion and/or the vote. Additionally, the policy requires care to be exercised by staff to assure that no conflict or perceived conflict arises between themselves and the organization, and the staff must not collect for themselves in competition with the museum. Conflict of interest restrictions are also explained to volunteers and observed by them. The executive director & ceo and a committee determine conflicts and review the conflicts once determined.”

“The board approves the executive director's compensation including base compensation and potential annual bonus based on perfromance goals. The compensation was documented in a 2019 offer letter from the board of directors to the executive director. This process was last undertaken during fiscal year 2024 by the co-chairs of the executive committee of the board of trustees in consultation with the executive committee. The entire board of trustees is kept informed and approves the executive director's compensation.”

“The organization posts its financial statements on its website, and its governing documents and conflict of interest policy are available upon written request.”

“The following summarizes the diverse and unparalleled exhibitions the museum offered visitors this past fiscal year: the william l. Richter collection william l. Richter gallery, april 2, 2023 - ongoing this semi-permanent installation celebrates the extraordinary collection of greenwich resident william l. Richter, tracing social connections and lineages among a core group of predominantly french artists from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Henri matisse's marguerite in a fur hat is spotlighted in the gallery, and new sections devoted to 19th-century french landscape painting and surrealism anchor the space. Connecticut modern: art, design, and the avant-garde, 19301960 changing art gallery, september 23, 2023 - january 7, 2024 connecticut modern: art, design, and the avant-garde, 19301960 is the first major exhibition devoted to the modernist landscape of early twentieth-century connecticut, when the state became a capital-in-exile for transplanted members of the parisian avant-garde and their american counterparts. Featuring nearly eighty works by artists ranging from alexander calder and yves tanguy to helen frankenthaler and jasper johns, the exhibition focuses on the remarkable synergy of people and place to show how modernism developed in connecticut in the first half of the twentieth century. Robert motherwell & multiplicity vicki netter fitzgerald gallery, september 23 - december 3, 2023 robert motherwell & multiplicity highlights the work of greenwich-based artist robert motherwell, arguably one of the most important abstract expressionist painters of the postwar era. Drawing on works from the bruce museum's collection, it explores a lesser-known dimension of motherwell's contributions to american abstractionprintmakingas well as the significance of multiplicity across his artistic practice. Harry bertoia: sculpture for living sculpture gallery, october 14, 2023 - april 7, 2024 while the artist and designer harry bertoia (american, b. Italy, 19151978) is perhaps best known for his commissioned sculptures and pioneering use of sound as sculptural material, most of his creative output was made for domestic spaces. Featuring fifteen exemplary sculptures and furniture designs, harry bertoia: sculpture for living demonstrates the power of bertoia's art in everyday life. Tracing lineage: abstraction and its aftermath grossman family gallery and edward and barbara netter foundation gallery, november 18, 2023 - march 17, 2024 drawn from the museum's holdings and augmented by key loans from private collections, tracing lineage: abstraction and its aftermath brings together nearly twenty-five paintings, sculptures, and mixed-media works by artists working from the late 1950s to the present day. It addresses key art-historical movements, including abstract expressionism and its various permutationsfrom action painting and color field to minimalism and postminimalismwhile also showcasing work by contemporary artists whose investigations of color, form, and material elucidate the ongoing legacies of painterly abstraction. Artists represented in the exhibition include elaine de kooning, sol lewitt, and helen frankenthaler alongside contemporary artists such as mcarthur binion and torkwase dyson. Hockney/origins: early works from the collection of roy b. And edith j. Simpson the blavatnik family gallery, december 2, 2023 - ongoing hockney/origins: early works from the roy b. And edith j. Simpson collection examines the early period of hockney's career, from his time as an art student in london during the early 1960s to his formative years in the 1970s. Comprising oil and acrylic paintings, pressed paper pulp, crayon drawings, lithographs, and etchings, the installation speaks to the spirit of versatility that animates the artist's practice. Photographic revolutionaries of group f/64 | works from the bank of america collection vicki netter fitzgerald gallery, december 9, 2023 - april 28, 2024 organized by bank of ameri”

“Jennifer angus: the golden hour changing art gallery, june 6 - september 1, 2024 jennifer angus (canadian, b. 1961) transformed the changing art gallery into three magical rooms in her exhibition the golden hour, which used thousands of insects as the primary medium. In "the village," visitors gazed up at houses encrusted with beeswax towering overhead while jars of insects in jelly glowed like stained-glass windows. In "the cabinet of curiosities," tiny scenes of life and death were played out by anthropomorphized insects mounted in drawers. Finally, "the dinner party" featured animals from our natural history collection seated at a formal dining table, symbolizing a last opportunity to find solutions to ecological collapse. Penguins! Past and present changing science gallery, april 2 - august 6, 2023 this exhibition shared the story of the world's most remarkable birds. Dioramas, interactive displays, a life-sized reconstruction of the giant extinct penguin kaiurku, and a wealth of specimens were used to showcase penguin evolution and ecology. Curated by dr. Daniel ksepka, an internationally recognized expert on extinct penguins, the exhibition detailed the 60-million-year journey of penguin evolution starting with their ancient ancestors and ending in the modern day with video footage of penguin-inspired robots. This exhibition highlighted cutting edge contemporary research into feather microstructure, the completion of the penguin genome, and new fossil discoveries, and documented the many ways, positive and negative, that penguins and humans interact. Monsters and mermaids: unravelling natural history's greatest hoaxes changing science gallery, august 26, 2024 - february 11, 2025 for centuries, hoaxers have crafted counterfeit artifacts, forged fossils, and conjured up non-existent animal species. Some sought fame and academic recognition, others sought fortune, and a few sought only amusement. This exhibition brought together a blockbuster assemblage of objects to explore the history of hoaxes, the motivations of the hoaxers, and the scientific methods by which great hoaxes were debunked. Among the highlights were the original carved wooden feet that started the legend of bigfoot, the "toad in a hole created by piltdown man perpetrator charles dawson, and one of the famous 18th century fossil forgeries known as beringer's lying stones. For the centerpiece we displayed america's greatest hoax, the 3,000lb cardiff giant. This exhibition also chronicled major american archaeological forgeries such as the davenport tablets, the michigan relics, the kensington runestone, and the newark "holy stones". Arms and armor: evolution and innovation changing science gallery, march 7 - august 11, 2024 arms and armor explored how natural selection and human innovation have influenced the shape, composition, and function of structures ranging from beetle exoskeletons to samurai armor. Weapons and armor from around the world were displayed side-by-side with natural history specimens such as taxidermy and skeletons. Highlights included a cast of the giant armored fish dunkleosteus, juxtaposed with a suit of armor used in real-life modern competitions. This exhibition also touched on unexpected similarities, such as the cutting efficiency of the self-sharpening fangs of vampire bats and the aztec macuahuitl, a club lined with razor-sharp obsidian. Permanent science galleries: natural cycles shape our land (ongoing) our permanent natural history exhibition is divided into six sections united by the theme of cycles. The exhibition flows from large-scale cycles like plate tectonics that shape the entire earth and unfold over millions of years to small-scale cycles that take place in our own backyards over a few hours, like insect metamorphosis cycles. Individual galleries include: storr family foundation geology gallery: this gallery focuses on the rock cycle, and includes interactives demonstrating mineral properties such as density, magnetis”

“Loss on uncollectible contributions receivable -90,946.”

“The organization has an audit committee that is responsible for the oversight of the audit of its financial statements and selection of an independent accountant. The process has not changed from the prior year.”