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: 2025 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: 2025 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: 2025 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: 2025 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.
For a new member what is a Gilbert Centurion? What membership benefits does it include, or does it? Could the levels of membership be better defined on the website for the future. Thanks look forward a resppnse
The Gilbert Centurions (“Centum” in Latin = 100) is a group of ACGHS members who generously donate $100 above the regular dues rate. This extra revenue allows the club to keep the required dues and convention rates low and fund many other beneficial projects. The Centurions do not enjoy any special membership benefits.
Hi all, I am needing a P-52 ladder chain to use on the Gilbert Ferris Wheel built from the 8-1/2 set. The Wheel is to go on our AF S gauge layout that is part of our 2,000 sq ft holiday display at Union Station Kansas City, America’s second-largest rail terminal. Work is all done by volunteers, and we start in September. The original belt that came with one of our member’s sets is worn out. We thought if we used a geared setup, it would be more reliable for a public display that is up from Thanksgiving through New Year’s. The entire display is motion-sensor activated, so nothing runs all the time. Perhaps we could resort to the original belt and V-pulleys if we could find a repro. Any suggestions to where we could find either the P-52 chain, or replacement pulleys would be greately apreciated 🙂 royphoto41@everestkc.net