WHY SUPPORT? Join the club! Become a donor member today.

The McHenry Museum & Historical Society (MM&HS) promotes active and robust community engagement with Modesto and Stanislaus County history, and helps connects the public with the McHenry Museum.

Read our Summer 2023 ‘Pillars of Sustainment’ campaign letter.

MM&HS provides trained docents to greet and guide general museum visitors and for area schoolchildren during educational field trips, hosts community history talks, publishes fresh articles documenting local history, maintains this website, delivers Modesto and Stanislaus County history directly to the public with its McMobile Museum, and more!

Read our 2022 - 2023 Impact Report

Your support helps MM&HS bring local history to life!

Benefit by becoming or renewing as a member to receive:

  • Direct mailed and emailed information about the organization’s events (including Museum Monthly)

  • Discounts on items at Stanislaus Selections, our in-museum book shop gift store at the McHenry Museum

  • Exclusive invitations to our

    • Hosted ‘Summer Social’ annual meeting

    • December ‘Soup & Sandwich Supper’ and holiday sing-along

  • Satisfaction that you are contributing to foster deeper and meaningful connections for members in the community with their local history, right here where you live!

    Donors who give as Patrons ($150) or higher are recognized publicly.