Rental fees:
If you wish to hold an event in the museum and the museum is not contracted as your
caterer, the cost is $150.00 per day for members and $250.00 per day for non-members. If you use the museum’s
tables, you must set them up and take them down yourself. Use of the kitchen is included in the rental fee.
You must clean the kitchen before leaving. (A cleaning fee is built into the rental fee, so our staff will
sweep, mop, and clean the remaining areas of the museum.) You must supply your own tablecloths unless you make
prior arrangements to use the museum’s tablecloths. Use of the kitchen appliances is included in your rental
fee. You cannot have a key to the museum because there is an alarm system in place. A museum volunteer will
let you in the museum and must be on the premises at all times during your event (even if you are a secret
society). You are responsible for any damages that might occur in the museum as a result of your use of the
building. You will be required to sign a rental agreement and make a damage deposit. No smoking or alcoholic
beverages are permitted in the museum. Political signs posted on the outside of the building are not
permitted. Political signs inside are permitted during the hours of your event only.
If the museum is contracted to do your catering, there is no rental fee for use of the museum. All
museum meals are sit-down dinners served to your guests, although desserts are served from a dessert table and
salads are served from a salad bar. Unless otherwise requested, meals are served on glass plates.
The drinking glasses are glass, the napkins are cloth, and the forks, knives and spoons are metal. All
bookings must go through Lynnita Brown, museum administrator, 253-2535 or 253-4620.
Menu Prices:
$16.00 for a two-meat menu; $14.00 for a one-meat menu; other (see menu). No gratuity
is required. However, an additional fee of $1.00 per person is required if more than 50 people are in your
party. The museum staff uses this extra fee to hire additional servers.
*Menu Selections:
Choose one meat with two side choices or two meats and two side choices. Dessert,
drinks, and bread are included in both the $16.00 & $14.00 prices. Museum meals are homemade. Our cooks
include staff members licensed in food service sanitation. Our food is made and served fresh with the finest
ingredients. Please note that the $16.00 two-meat dinner is a huge meal by most standards.
Meat (the museum does not deep fry) – your choice of:
Fried chicken (a breast and a leg fried by Tuscola IGA Foodliner), baked chicken, Smithfield pork chops
(two), beef cube steak & mushroom gravy, baked turkey, baked ham, homemade chicken & noodles, polish sausage
& sauerkraut, or Swiss steak and tomato gravy. Portions are good-sized.
Sides – your choice of side dishes:
Corn, green beans, scalloped pineapple, party potatoes (similar to twice-baked), Jell-O salad (fruit or
veggie), cooked carrots, lima beans, fresh fruit or sliced tomatoes (in season), baked beans, peas, hominy,
pickled beets, pasta salad, broccoli/cauliflower medley, homemade bread dressing, sweet potato casserole,
individual relish plates. Individual garden salads are also an option, but an additional per plate fee of
$.50 must be added to the $14.00 or $16.00 fee to defray the cost of salad dressings. Note: hors d’oeuvres
may be chosen in lieu of one side dish for two-meat dinners.
Other -
Grilled Chicken Salad Special ($10.00) – chef salad with grilled chicken, other meats, assorted crackers,
salad dressings, dessert, drink; Lasagna or Spaghetti ($15.00 for lasagna/$10.00 for spaghetti) – Your
choice of homemade lasagna or spaghetti, lettuce salad, garlic bread, dessert & drink; Soup Supper ($8.00) –
Your choice of beef vegetable soup or chili (other soups available upon request), crackers, relish tray,
dessert, drink; Ham & Bean Supper ($8.00) – Ham & Beans & Cornbread, relish tray, dessert, drink.
Thousand Dollar Deal -
For $1,000, the museum staff will provide an array of fresh, homemade foods for your party of 100-125
people. The Thousand Dollar Deal includes 16 feet of attractively arranged assorted foods, including
but not limited to: two types of sandwiches, relish plate, cheeses and summer sausage, olives or bread and
butter pickles, homemade candies, cakes and cookies, chips, fruit bowl, etc.--in various combinations.
Coffee, tea, and lemonade drinks are included in the price. This is an informal, help-yourself meal
served on styro plates with paper cups and plastic tableware. Add $25.00 per 25 people above 125
guests. For an additional fee, the meal can be served on china plates and metal tableware and glass
drinking glasses will be used. The Thousand Dollar Deal is perfect for wedding receptions, anniversary
parties, or company festivities.
Dietary Restrictions:
If any of your guests have a dietary restriction, be sure to notify our staff in advance so that we can
accommodate their special dietary needs. |
