The Kemper Museum of Contemporary Art offers many membership options. As a member, you receive the benefits listed below as well as the satisfaction of knowing that your contribution sustains free access to the Kemper Museum for everyone in our community.

Your annual membership support enables the Museum to offer innovative exhibitions, educational programming, and teacher services. For more information about Kemper Museum membership or about other gifts to the Museum please contact the Museum’s Development Department at 816-753-5784 or development(at)kemperart(dot)org.

Membership Levels and Benefits

All members receive:
• unlimited free admission to Museum programs such as films, lectures, and selected special events
• a free copy of the Museum’s quarterly newsletter
• invitations to all exhibition opening receptions

All members are offered a gift certificate to the Museum Shop or Café Sebastienne as a membership premium; members may decline this premium in order to consider their entire membership contribution tax deductible.

Individual $45 and Family (2 or more people at one address) $60
• Receive a 5% discount on all purchases in the Museum Shop

Friend  $120
• Receive same benefits as Individual and Family levels, plus a discount on use of the Museum Meeting Room during regular Museum hours
• Receive a 10% discount on all purchases in the Museum Shop

• Enjoy reciprocal membership/admissions privileges at museums throughout the United States through the North American Reciprocal Program

Director’s Circle  $275
• Receive same benefits as Friend level, plus are eligible to participate in special programs, art tours, and trips
• Are invited to annual reception for the National Committee, the advisory board of the Museum

• Enjoy reciprocal membership/admissions privileges at contemporary museums throughout the United States through the Mod/Co Reciprocal Program, a consortium of contemporary museums of which the Kemper Museum is a founding member

Benefactor  $500
• Receive same benefits as Director’s Circle level, plus receive publications for selected special exhibitions
• Receive a 10% discount in the Museum’s Café Sebastienne

Contributing  $1,000
• Receive same benefits as Benefactor level, plus are eligible to use the Museum Meeting Room or Courtyard once a year for a private event, in accordance with Museum guidelines
• Receive select Museum publications

Special Contributing  $4,000
• Receive same benefits as Contributing level, plus are eligible to use Museum once a year for a private event, in accordance with Museum guidelines

Sustaining  $5,000
• Receive same benefits as Special Contributing level, plus receive two complimentary tickets to Contemporary Art Night, the annual Museum fund-raising gala

Click here to purchase a membership online. Click here to find out about the Museum's Collectors Forum.