Join the A.C. Gilbert Heritage Society or renew your current membership. There are several ways to join or renew. Regular membership is $35 per calendar year or $10 for junior members ages 5-15. If you want to do a little more to help support the Society, please consider becoming a Gilbert Centurion for $135. The calendar year runs from January 1 to December 31 (memberships purchased in November and December are valid for the following calendar year).

Join by Check or Money Order

• New Regular Members can print, complete, and mail the following form with your check or money order to the address on this form: 2024 Regular Membership Application (PDF)
• New Junior Members (ages 5-15) can print, complete, and mail the following form with your check or money order to the address on this form: 2024 Junior Membership Application (PDF)
• Become a Gilbert Centurion by printing, completing, and mailing the following form with your check or money order to the address on this form: 2024 Gilbert Centurion Application (PDF)
• To Renew your Regular, Gilbert Centurion, or Junior membership please print, complete, and mail the following form with your check or money order to the address on this form: 2024 Membership Renewal Form (PDF)

Join by Credit Card

• Pay by credit card to become a new member or renew your existing membership. Use the form to select either a $35 Regular Membership, $135 Gilbert Centurion, or $10 Junior Membership. Join by Credit Card

Benefits of Membership

Members receive our quarterly newsletter (published in March, June, September, and December), our National Membership Directory, and are invited to participate in our annual National Convention. Members also have access to Members-only content on this Web site, and may advertise for free in our newsletter or on this website via the Gilbert Exchange.

New members will receive all back issues of our newsletter for the calendar year in which they join. All memberships should be renewed at the beginning of the year (memberships purchased in November and December are valid for the following calendar year).

Our website’s Members-only content includes the following materials:

• Erector Set parts inventories
• How-To-Make ‘Em manuals
• Artwork for skyscraper panels and parts boxes including instructions for fabricating them
• Pictures and information of Erector Set layouts and other Gilbert products
• Our national Membership Directory
• Society information including meeting minutes, treasurer’s reports, and policies/guidelines

Other members-only information is added as it becomes available. If you have questions about membership in the A.C. Gilbert Heritage Society, please use our Contact Form.

Map of ACGHS Membership Regions

Retrieve a U.S. map showing the regions for A. C. Gilbert Heritage Society members: Map of ACGHS Regions

By-Laws of the A.C. Gilbert Heritage Society

All members are expected to abide by the rules set forth within the By-Laws. (PDF, 7 pages, 87K)

Any questions about our By-Laws should be referred to the President of the ACGHS. Society business, meeting discussions, questions or comments should also be directed to the president. (Contact the ACGHS President)

ACGHS Newsletters

Retrieve an ACGHS Newsletter Index (17 Pages | 194k | PDF), which includes an index of articles from February 1991 – December 2020. A. C. Gilbert Heritage Society members can retrieve back issues of ACGHS Newsletters in digital format by accessing our ACGHS Newsletters page (members must be logged into this website to access this page). If you are not a member, back issues of newsletters are $6 each. To request back issues, please contact our Archives Manager.