About Us

Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture) is a multi-faceted non-profit organization, promoting the restoration, interpretation and cultural enrichment of greater Cape May for its residents and visitors. Through its sponsorship of cultural and heritage tourism, Cape May MAC has helped transform Cape May from a “summer only” beach resort to the country’s leading Victorian theme destination. Your donation to any of Cape May MAC’s initiatives helps us carry out these missions, ensuring a vital and robust community.

Tax-Exempt EIN: 221-923-415

Mail Donations to:
PO Box 340
Cape May, NJ 08204

Cape May MAC Preservation Fund

Now that we’ve achieved the milestone of our 50th Anniversary, Cape May MAC is looking forward to an exciting future, which includes the very important mission of on-going stewardship of our historic sites. In light of that future vision, we’ve renamed our fund the Cape May MAC Preservation Fund, with the goal ensuring these cultural assets remain Cape May’s crown jewels.

Cape May MAC’S Online Auction

Starting on February 1, 2025, Cape May MAC will be auctioning off a number of fun and unique items to bid on to raise money for our organization – and the more items we have the more money we can raise, so we’re asking for your help!

Memorial Gifts

Honor the memory of a loved one through a memorial gift to Cape May MAC. Please select the appropriate fund and use the comment section on the donation form to indicate the person you are honoring and whom to notify of your generous gift and lasting tribute.

Click on the Fund Links below for donation form.

You can make a donation to General Operations and let Cape May MAC choose where funds are most needed.

Set up in 2013 in honor of Michael Zuckerman’s 30th anniversary as Director of Cape May MAC, this fund underwrites restoration projects and collections acquisition and conservation at our three historic sites.

A donation to the Cape May Lighthouse, a beacon for mariners since 1859 and now a museum of maritime history, will help Cape May MAC keep the tower in tiptop condition.

Help Us Continue to Save the Emlen Physick Estate!

Cape May MAC plans to embark on installing an HVAC system and improved fire suppression in the Physick House Museum. The planning grants we’ve secured need us to find matching funds. Your contributions are greatly appreciated to help us meet our match and see these plans through to fruition.

A donation to the World War II Lookout Tower, part of the immense Harbor Defense of the Delaware system known as Fort Miles, will help Cape May MAC keep the tower in tiptop condition.

Since 1990, the Cape May Music Festival has been bringing beautiful music – classical, chamber, jazz and more – to Cape May each Spring. Your donation helps underwrite this gift to the Cape May community.

The George’s Angels fund helps us raise the monies needed for additional musicians, related expenses and original orchestrations for our annual Music Festival tribute to George Mesterhazy.

History literally comes alive in Cape May, our nation’s oldest seaside resort – from our Native American and Dutch roots, to our beloved Victorian architecture, to the City’s roles in World War I and II. We are even the only city in the U.S. to be wholly designated as a national historic district. The Myles Martel Lessons of History Fund Endowment supports important programming on history in Cape May, such as the annual Lessons of History lecture series. This fund is named in honor of Myles Martel, who created this endowment and tirelessly led our efforts to bring historical programming to Cape May for many years.

CAPE MAY LIGHTHOUSE BRICK PAVER PROGRAM

Cape May MAC (Museums+Arts+Culture) is offering a limited opportunity to celebrate a light in your life! The pathway at the 1859 Cape May Lighthouse is being repaved and will include a limited number of engraved bricks. Honor someone special to you with this fixture as a remembrance or simply celebrate your own or your family’s love of the lighthouse! Bricks may be purchased in person at the Cape May Lighthouse or at the Hill House Business Office at the Emlen Physick Estate.

You may also print out the form below and email to Janice Corkery at jcorkery@capemaymac.org
or mail to:

Cape May MAC
c/o Janice Corkery
1048 Washington St.
Cape May, NJ 08204

Bricks will be ordered quarterly. Installation may take up to one year. We cannot accommodate special requests regarding placement of your brick. 

rendering of people standing at the base of the lighthouse with brick path

More Ways to Give

In-Kind Donations

Cartoon Gift Box

Cape May MAC collects gift baskets, gift certificates, in-kind accommodation stays and in-kind services throughout the year for various fundraising missions.

If you have something of value, or want to make a donation from your business, please contact our Chief Outreach Officer, Eliza Lotozo at elotozo@capemaymac.org.