Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2016 08 03 JT

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Page 24 of 150 charitable organization to receive donations in memory of their loved one, and this is communicated through the loved one's obituary. • Regular monetary donors to the Foundation are often motivated by their strong feelings about Louisville and the Museum. No other organization that accepts donations more generally helps preserve and promote Louisville. • The business community benefits from the Museum in that the Museum is a tourist activity for visitors to Louisville, making their stays richer. Museum staff and volunteers encourage visitors to explore shops and eat at local restaurants. • As discussed above, the Museum lends support to many community organizations and projects and to other City departments in terms of providing photos and information. • The Museum shares relevant information with other historical organizations in Boulder County such as those in Superior, Lafayette, Boulder, Erie, and Longmont, and enjoys positive relationships with them. • Veterans are honored through providing information about veterans buried in the Louisville Cemetery for the Wreaths Across America national event and through the showing of the Museum's World War II film4 on local Channel 8 on Memorial Day and Veterans Day. • Recent collaborations with Boulder Valley School District have included a photo project with Monarch High School students to document downtown buildings and the Foundation's logo design contest. • Photos from the Museum's photo collection have reached the public through their use in books, in newspaper articles and magazines, in businesses, in City buildings like City Hall and the Library, and in the mural on the Blue Parrot restaurant. (In fact, when someone donates a photo to the Museum, it might end up being used years later in a very public way.) The Museum also responds to media requests about Louisville. • The public views Museum exhibits in the Library lobby for a month each year. • The public views digitized photos and Boulder County Assessor Cards (for Louisville buildings) online. These are accessible 24/7 and more are being added regularly. It is a high priority to make sure that photos are identified correctly online and people are encouraged to correct inaccurate identifications or locations. (More information about the digitization program is contained in the Appendices.) • Many historic building reports produced by the Museum are accessible online at the Museum's website and at the Historic Preservation Program website. • The Museum staff gives off-site presentations to groups about Louisville history. • People looking to purchase local history items for themselves or as gifts can find them at the Museum, sold by the Foundation. • Local residents are interviewed for the Museum's Oral History Program, which not only helps the Museum but is a service by the Museum for the narrators and their families, who receive a complimentary DVD of the interview. • In addition to the reports written for the Planning Department, the Museum supplies property owners and renters with information and photos about their homes, upon request. These efforts sometimes lead to an owner deciding to landmark a building. 4 Louisville's World War II film is "Our Boys and Girls in the Armed Forces, 1943-44" and it depicts Louisville servicemen and women in short scenes while they were home on leave, in many cases with other family members and with homes or businesses in the background. 16