Our Mission and What We’re About
Established in 1995, Celebrating Patsy Cline, Inc., is a nonprofit corporation committed to perpetuating the memory of Patsy Cline through the establishment of a Patsy Cline Museum in Winchester, Virginia—Patsy Cline’s birthplace.
Celebrating Patsy Cline is looking for items and recollections that can be incorporated in the museum and asks for anyone wishing to volunteer with the museum initiative to contact Celebrating Patsy Cline, Inc., at 888-608-2726 or info@celebratingpatsycline.org.
Recent Achievement Highlights
- Celebrating Patsy Cline (CPC) acquires Patsy Cline’s childhood home at 608 South Kent Street through contributions from the Adams family, Preservation of Historic Winchester, and an anonymous donor.
- Museum location moves to 134 North Loudoun Street, on the Loudoun Street Pedestrian Mall. New location offers 7,000 square feet of 1st-floor exhibit space and more flexibility for growth.
- City of Winchester presents grant funding to initiate conceptual plans and design work.
- Ralph Appelbaum Associates (RAA), the largest interpretive museum design firm in the world, signs on to create the museum’s experiential exhibits. (www.raany.com)
- The McGorrisk Group, Inc., provides a comprehensive master business plan and updates to the 2001 Gerner report.
- The CPC mission statement is ratified: “To Preserve and Perpetuate the Legacy of Patsy Cline and Her Music.”
- Legacy, Inc. (the organization Charlie Dick, Patsy Cline’s husband, established to administer the Patsy Cline Estate), formally confirms support to CPC’s mission.
- Content and conceptual designs of the museum exhibits are complete.
- Legacy, Inc., and CPC jointly purchase Sam Hensley, Jr. Estate which contains personal and professional items of Patsy Cline.
- Lawson Associates, Inc., assists in capital campaign development.
- New York Times includes the Patsy Cline Museum on its list of exciting planned new museum projects opening in the United States.
- Successfully completed feasibility study, indicating potential success of a capital campaign.
- Groundwork is laid for launching of a capital campaign to develop and sustain the Patsy Cline Museum.
- Objects in the CPC collection are examined by an independent professional museum curator for authenticity, value, and present condition in preparation for exhibition in the museum. Objects are cataloged for museum records for legal compliance, storage, and retrieval of items.
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"Carnegie Hall was real fabulous, but you know, it ain't as big as the Grand Ole Opry."
-Patsy Cline
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