8 interesting donation boxes

I have recently visited many museums and I’ve seen many of them have donation boxes. While most of them were plain and bland, a few of them were more interesting and caught my attention, making me more likely to donate.

The lesson is a little bit of style can help a cause that needs money. Here are a few interesting donation boxes that stand out from the crowd.

(If you know of an interesting donation box I missed, please email me a picture and I will add it).

1. Tate Modern art gallery in London

This donation box is a sort of interactive game: makes anyone with spare coins wish to play it.

Photo by Boris Tylevich

2. San Diego Natural History Museum

This donation box has a plastic dinosaur holding a coin, how cute.

Photo by Waifer X

3. National Building Museum in D.C.

This donation box is made out of Legos, how cool.

Photo by National Building Museum

4. Aberdeen Art Gallery

This is another art museum that uses a sleek style in its donation box.

Photo by Stuart Caie

5. Washington Memorial

This is interesting to me because I didn’t know the famous obelisk towering over D.C. was partly constructed (about 1/4 of it) from donations. Pictured is a reproduction of a donation box dating from the 1800s.

Photo by me

6. Arlington House – Robert E. Lee Memorial

This is interesting because the donations box spans another floor. As the photographer writes, “A donations tube leads to a box on the floor of former slave quarters at Arlington House in Arlington, Va”

Photo by Rob Pongsajapan

7. Hanoi airport

Okay, so I included this one for its interesting English translation. But hey, this donation box is full, so at least it works.

Photo by theloneconspirator

8. Honest donation box

I’m not sure where this photo was taken, but I hvae to give credit to its honesty. They don’t love you, they just love your money

Photo by Daniel Lobo