Membership
If you can’t get enough of street car history, we invite you to join our family as a National Capital Trolley Museum Member and demonstrate your commitment to the preservation and interpretation of electric street railway history for our Nation’s Capital. Your membership will afford you the opportunity to participate in member-sponsored activities, receive our quarterly newsletter The Headway Recorder, and the satisfaction of supporting an important historical asset in Maryland and the DC area.
Use the button below to begin or renew your membership, or download this PDF form and mail it to the address provided.
Current Members
COMING SOON! Current Members of NCTM will soon have access to special, members-only pages on our website, featuring digitized collections, Headway Recorder archives, and more. Stay tuned!
Membership Levels
Individual, 1 year: $40.00
Individual, 3 years: $110.00
Student, 1 year: $30.00
Student, 3 years: $80.00
Individual, 15 years: $550.00
Lifetime: $800.00
How You Benefit
FREE general admission to the museum all year long.
Opportunities to participate in member-sponsored activities.
Receive our quarterly newsletter The Headway Recorder featuring news, updates, and special spotlights on our collections and related subjects.
NEW in 2023! COMING SOON — Members will have access to special, members-only pages on the website featuring digitized collections, Headway Recorder archives, and more!
The satisfaction of supporting an important historical asset in Maryland and the DC area.
What You Support
Collections Restoration + Maintenance
Our living collection of historic street cars require constant maintenance, often including parts that are no longer mass-manufactured and are difficult or expensive to obtain. Membership helps support the expensive repair of one-of-a-kind objects that keep our street cars running.
In addition, our archive of thousands of documents, photos, and other objects related to street car history across the globe need special care and attention to ensure that they will last for generations to come. Materials, restoration work, and ongoing collections care rely in part on the generous support of members.
Public Programming + Operations
We embrace the communal nature of street car history by actively bringing the community together to celebrate and explore all of its aspects. Membership at NCTM supports the ongoing costs of running an electric railway, but also helps us support special programs such as All Aboard!, our monthly experiential learning series inviting children and families to engage with the science, art, and humanities of transit history. Other programs supported include scholarly lectures, model train shows, musical events, and our annual Holly TrolleyFest in December.
School Programs
Each year, we welcome hundreds of school children Pre-K through 6th grade to come face-to-face with living history. Our school programming is designed to challenge students to think critically and make connections between historic transit and their own lives, all while providing an experience they’ll remember forever! Your membership supports the materials for hands-on activities during these school programs as well as the costs associated with running our electric railway for around 100 students per program!
My sincerest thanks all of our members whose support has enabled the National Capital Trolley Museum to thrive and remain a force of public education for over 50 years! Thank you for your time, talents, and your dedication to advancing the humanities, science, and arts of transit history in Maryland and beyond. We are so happy to have you all as a part of our family.
With gratitude,
