SUPPORT
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Join our community of monthly givers and make a consistent and stabilizing impact on preserving Armenian heritage. Monthly donors receive early invitations to events and exclusive opportunities to connect with the Project Save family.
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Honor Project Save Founder Ruth Thomasian. Donate through 2025 and an anonymous donor will match every dollar you give, up to $50,000 in honor of Ruth and our 50th Anniversary.
INVEST
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Investment in Project Save’s Endowment Fund secures our future by providing a stable and lasting source of income, ensuring we can preserve and share Armenian heritage for generations to come. You can be part of this transformative effort to build a legacy of cultural preservation and resilience.
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Consider Project Save in your Legacy Giving plans. Bequests of cash, insurance, stocks and other investments is an enduring way to show your support for the history and future of the Armenian community.
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SPONSOR
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Leave a lasting legacy by naming Project Save’s gallery space. It’s the most public-facing part of our mission to preserve and share Armenian heritage and the overall immigrant experience. A place where exhibitions, events and programs will connect people through photography and storytelling.
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Archive Alive is a multimedia initiative that reimagines how archival photographs are shared and experienced, with a focus on the lives, memories, and movements of Armenian diaspora communities. Through curated digital stories, interactive exhibits, and community-sourced reflections, Archive Alive breathes new life into historical images—connecting them to contemporary questions of identity, displacement, and belonging. By blending visuals with narrative and sound, the project transforms the archive from a static repository into a living, evolving space of connection and dialogue.
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Our newest initiative empowers archivists, cultural heritage workers and photographers in Armenia through annual visits. Each year, we send archivists, curators, and photographers to hold workshops in the country. Likewise, Armenian archivists and photographers spend time at Project Save, Harvard University and the Boston Public Library. Your sponsorship makes a lasting impact on Armenian cultural institutions and creative communities.
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Project Save 50th anniversary exhibitions will bring to life the powerful stories of Armenian heritage, identity and culture. Exhibitions are planned at Project Save and partner institutions such as the Griffin Museum, Boston Public Library and elsewhere. Partner with us to share these remarkable narratives with the world.
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The Artist & Research Residency at Project Save invites creatives and scholars to engage directly with our photographic archive to produce new work, research, or public programming. Our inaugural resident artist, photographer and professor Pavel Romaniko, explored themes of memory, loss, and the post-Soviet imaginary through photographs in our collection.
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How to donate your photographs to Project SAVE
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Copies of photos. As an archive, Project SAVE collects original photos only, not copies- neither copy prints, xeroxes, nor digital scans.
Digitized photographs. Physical or traditional photographs that have been digitized using a scanner, digital camera or other techniques.
Photographs on loan. We accept permanent donations only.
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Please package your photographs securely, sandwiched between cardboard or other sturdy materials for added structure. We also recommend including a layer of plastic to prevent water damage during shipping.
If you desire copies, digital or print, please have these made before making your donation. We are not able to do that for you.
If your photographs are particularly fragile, broken, include glass, mold or are sticky, please contact us first before shipping or attempting to repair the materials.
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Fill out and print our Photograph Donation Form and include it in your package.
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Please provide as much information as possible about the photographs. (If you do not have information about your photographs that’s okay! They still have value and we would like to consider preserving them.) Any and all information is helpful: names, places, dates, stories, and other details. This information will be kept on file. To assist in this process, you may fill out the second page of the Photograph Donation Form, which includes a list of questions. Even if you cannot identify anybody in your photos, we would still welcome them: we collect the unknowns- it’s our mission to honor the forgotten.
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Please only use a soft pencil on the back of the photographs. Please do not use pens, even if marked “archival.”
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Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives
P.O. Box 236
Watertown MA 02471If you are using a private carrier (such as UPS, FedEx, or DHL) ship to:
Project SAVE Armenian Photograph Archives
65 Main St. 3rd Fl.
Watertown MA 02472NOTE: We prefer regular mail.
If you wish to drop off your donation in person, please contact us to make an appointment.
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Once we receive the photographs we will mail you a Deed of Gift to sign and return to us. The letter will include information about copyright and you will have an opportunity to include your desired Credit Line (your name or your family’s name as you would like it to read when one of your photographs is exhibited, published or otherwise used).
The archival process will begin. Photographs will be accessioned, arranged and described by our archivists. Photographs are housed in archival materials and placed in a climate controlled storage area.
Other items we accept in addition to original photograph
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Yes, we do accept documents such as birth certificates, diplomas, business ledgers, travel papers, and books when they relate to the people in your donated photos.
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Born digital photographs are photographs that were created in a digital format using a digital camera or a phone.We accept born digital photographs on a case by case basis. Please contact us so we can review your materials and decide on best steps.