Millennium Gate Museum

The Millennium Gate Museum’s mission is to preserve and interpret Georgia history, art, culture and philanthropic heritage as well as highlight Georgia’s historical and aesthetic relevance to the United States and to the world. The Gate is a classically styled monumental arch located in Atlanta, historically called “The Gate City.” It is designed in the tradition of classical Roman triumphal arches that have been built around the world over the past 2,500 years, and houses a 12,000 square foot museum that narrates Georgia’s history through sophisticated interactive technology, film, period rooms, and exhibitions. The museum is a 501(c)(3) non-profit charity and a winner of the 2006 Palladio Award for best design of a public space in the United States. In 2011, the NMF received the Daughters of the American Revolution Historic Preservation Award, and in 2014, the NMF technology in the interactive Philanthropy Theater won the Technology Association of Georgia’s Excalibur Award. We have educated over 1,000,000 Georgia 8th graders with this technology.

Newington Cropsey Museum

Located in Hastings-on-Hudson, NY, the Newington Cropsey Museum houses the largest collection of Hudson River School Paintings in the world. The Hudson River School movement was about American exceptionalism, the New Jerusalem, a new nation of the highest ideals created from ocean to ocean. The ensemble designed by NMF president, Rodney Mims Cook, Jr., includes a park and an additional gothic-styled building adjacent to the main gallery which houses the foundation’s American Arts Magazine. A beautiful early 19th century carpenter-Gothic villa, sculpture atelier building, two guest houses, and a guard house preceded Cook’s involvement and were designed by others.

Yusupov Museum, Arkhangelskoye

This restoration of the princely Yusupov family country estate was done in collaboration with Priscilla Roosevelt’s AFORCE. This prominent family married into the Romanov family and is important on a world-class scale. Their intervention into the execution of the so-called Holy Man Rasputin destabilized the Russian monarchy once and for all. The palace library and theater were a primary restoration direction, which was done with the financial assistance of American Express.