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The museum opens in 2032. What is at stake between now and then — the collection, the corpus, the scholarly board, the venue — is being built now, and built by many. Here are the four ways to take part, and what each one asks of you.
Expertise
SpiLi has no scholarly board yet: it has a circle of advisors who inform its decisions — historians, people from the trade, from heritage, from philanthropy. What you give there is time and judgement, not money.
A few hours each quarter, and your name associated with the project.
Patronage
A museum is prepared years before it opens, and that period does not fund itself. Corporate patronage and major gifts cover the studies, the venue, the collection — under a charter of editorial independence that binds the museum as much as the patron.
A written framework: no patron decides the scholarly programme.
Collection
Historic bottles, stills, lithographed posters, distillery ledgers, bar glassware: the collection is being built now, object by object. Everything that comes in today will be in the first exhibition.
A loan, a gift, or simply telling us where an object is.
Corpus
The Atlas is open and incomplete: ninety-eight entries, sources to verify, languages to translate, archives to work through. It is the least visible work in the project, and the work its credibility rests on.
An entry, a proofread, a translation — at whatever pace you can.
A skill we haven't listed, a proposal that fits no box, a question before committing : the address is the same, and someone reads it.