MPMA Purchasing Coop

THE PURCHASING CO-OP

Find out how to save on Collections-Care Items (up to 85% off)

Economy hitting your museum hard?

Not satisfied with only a 15% or 20% discount that most associations get on collections products?

Want to impress your boss with budget savings????

Use the CO-OP!

Stretch your museum dollar with Special Discounts
Get discounts on Acid –Free Conservation Products and More!
Get the deepest discounts of any other program - more than 20% and up to 65%
Access a wide selection of acid-free collections-care products.

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See list below of the products sold in the CO-OP

Shopping for collection-care items can be expensive, but you can save lots of money if you use the Purchasing CO-OP. As an MPMA’s Institutional member, you are eligible for MPMA’s exclusive member discounts through the CO-OP. These discounts are on top of many discounts usually available from businesses selling conservation supplies. If you'd like to save more money than you thought possible on your next order of collections-care products, the Purchasing CO-OP can help you save a real bundle.

You may not realize the Purchasing CO-OP has some of the best bargains on conservation supplies.

If you want deep discounts on acid-free folders, tissue, boxes, etc., all you have to do is become an MPMA Institutional Member. "It's kind of nice because you can sit in your chair, order from MPMA’s list of products and your boss is ecstatic because you saved the museum a load of money," said Jenny Yearous, Curator of Collections Management, State Historical Society of North Dakota. Here is what Jenny saved on a recent project:

Value of items purchased: $4286.55

Total spent to date: $2095.22

Total savings $2191.33

“It is official: I have now saved more than I have spent... the savings have definitely paid for our MPMA membership for the next couple of years. I will definitely use the CO-OP again and will tell my friends about it."

Here's how you can become eligible to use the amazing Purchasing CO-OP:

Join MPMA as an Institutional Member. Click here for membership information

SELECTIONS FROM THE 2016 CO-OP LIST

Download List Note: This list does not have the special ordering codes. You need to contact MPMA for company contact and codes.

SELECTED LIST OF ITEMS - there are MANY MANY more items than what is listed here.

ACID-FREE FILE FOLDERS

ACID-FREE TISSUE

ALL-STABILO PENCILS

ALPHARAG MICROCHAMBER MAT BOARD

ARTIFACT ID TAGS

ARTIFACT INTERIOR TRAYS

BARRIER COAT B-72

BARRIER COAT B-67

BENCHMARK FELT

CD SLEEVES

CORRUGATED BOARD

COTTON GLOVES

COTTON TWILL TAPE

DOCUMENT BOXES

DUST BUNNIES

ENVELOPES

ETHAFOAM

ETHAFOAM RING MOUNTS

FLAT STORAGE BOXES

HOLLYTEX SYNTHETIC FABRIC

IDENTI-PENS

INTERLEAVING PAPER

MAP AND PRINT FOLDERS

MAT BOARD

MELINEX (or equivalent)

MUSEUM WAX

NITRILE GLOVES

PERMALIFE PAPER (or equivalent)

PHOTO MARKING PENCIL

PHOTO AND NEGATIVE SLEEVES

PIGMA MICRON PENS

POLYESTER L- SLEEVES

PRINT BOXES

QUILT-COSTUME BOXES

RECORD STORAGE CARTONS

STEREOGRAPH BOXES

TEXTILE BOXES

TEXTILE STORAGE TUBES

3M 415 DOUBLE SIDED FILM TAPE (or equivalent)

TYVEK type 1443R or 1422R

UV LIGHT FILTERS FOR FLUORESCENT BULBS

VOLARA FOAM

ZIPLOCK BAGS

Now you are starting to realize the scope, depth and savings in our Purchasing CO-OP. And this is not even the complete list!!!!

The above is just a selection of the many items in the CO-OP. Download the list.

Note:the list of products above and in the download does NOT include company names or codes. You must contact MPMA to get those and your institution must be a current institutional member of MPMA. Not sure? Call us at 303-979-9358.

We offer a clean, no-hassle interface. All you do is become an institutional member of MPMA, and we'll send you a list of products in the CO-OP as well as the companies plus the special CO-OP code needed to get the deep discounts from each company. You do the ordering and arrange shipping details with the company. If you would like to see a complete list products in the CO-OP, see the link above for the list. Or call us at 303-979-9358.

Our thanks to CWAM for being a great partner and having the forsight to start the Purchasing CO-OP!

About the Purchasing CO-OP

Since the 1990s, the Purchasing CO-OP has been a leading shopping destination for collections-care products for museums. Our goal is to help institutions save money. We do this by providing collections managers, registrars curators and directors a quick and easy way to find and purchase acid-free products and more from reputable conservation-oriented businesses. Our CO-OP offers the deepest discounts on choice products because we set up a bid process to get companies to compete for items. No one else has a bidding process like ours, and yet this is the ONLY way to get deeper discounts. We thank our CWAM colleagues for starting the CO-OP and inviting us to join.