New York Sign Museum Summer Benefit 2026

The New York Sign Museum and our Summer Benefit Host Committee invite you to our first-ever fundraiser at our East New York studio, celebrating underrepresented works of art, untold New York history, and a new mission centered around education. Join us in our early stages and help us find our forever home, full-time staff dedicated to preserving signage, and grow our organizational capacity. This event will combine the best of New York City’s design, art, music, food and drink.

The evening will be full of opportunities for private tours of the collection, never-before-seen pieces of the collection, active restorations, and live sign-painting demonstrations from our strategic partner, Noble Signs.

Proceeds from the benefit will support vital organizational growth across our three values: preservation, education, and community. Your support is vital in sustaining our growth and finding a permanent home for our collection in New York, where we can showcase our entire collection and fully open to the public.

Join us in raising a glass to New York City and everything its given us. We are bringing together the city’s biggest supporters of design, history, reform, and art this June.

If you can’t join us, please consider making a tax-deductible donation to support our mission here.

Summer Benefit Host Committee

Lisa Alpert

Gia Kuan

Kristin LaBuz

Whitney Mallett

Rolando Pujol

Live Sign Restoration Demonstration

Come see a demonstration from our expert sign restorers as they preserve one of our latest sign saves, a mid-century neon sign from Jack's Toys. The sign dates to the 1950's and stood at 909 Kings Highway in Midwood, Brooklyn. The stainless steel channels, neon tubing, and wiring will all be restored. Your ticket purchase helps us bring this sign, and countless others, back to life.

Tickets

$2,500 - Founding Member - Join us at 5:30 PM for an early access, private and behind-the-scenes tour of our newest restorations and the museum archive. In honor of our inaugural year, you will receive recognition as a Founding Member of the museum. This ticket level provides critical funding for growing our organizational capacity and securing a forever home for the collection.

$1,000 - Preservationist - Join us at 5:30 PM for an early access, private and behind-the-scenes tour of our newest restorations and the museum archive. In honor of our inaugural year, you will receive recognition as a Preservationist of the museum. This ticket level helps support the heavy logistics of sign salvage and transport across the 5 boroughs.

$500 - Supporter - Access to the party starting at 6:30 PM with an open bar, dinner, and an exclusive look at the gallery. This ticket level provides critical funding for the documentation of vernacular signage in our archive.

$250 - Patron - Our standard ticket for the Summer Benefit. Join us at 6:30 PM for the main program, including dinner and drinks among our collection of historic New York City signs. This ticket level helps us sustain out educational scholarship program for our monthly sign painting workshop.

Summer Benefit tickets are non-refundable.

Summer Benefit Sponsors

Saint Florian

Other Half Brewing

Fort Hamilton Distillery

Neverstill Wines

Skurink Wines

Sign Save Photo Credits: @saltsandwich

$2,500.00

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Return Window

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Items must be unused, unwashed, and in their original packaging.
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