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Page 38 of 150 <br />o Organize cooking lessons that relate to historical foods <br />o Offer historical crafts for children, such as making pins with ribbons to echo the Louisville <br />fraternal organization ribbons in the Museum's collections <br />o Teach historical indoor games and play them with children, or show historical toys <br />o Work with teachers to connect to curriculum <br />o Offer an antiques roadshow program <br />o Offer photography classes using the exhibits and grounds at the Museum as the subject matter <br />o Focus on the history of one family or one ethnicity represented in Louisville (this could translate <br />into more sharing of information and photos between the Museum and local families) <br />o Offer programs of genealogical interest, such as the program on "DNA Testing for Genealogy" <br />that was presented in August 2015 <br />o Put on workshops on raising chickens or winemaking <br />o Teach how to play barbuit, the gambling game, or morra, the Italian hand gesture game, that <br />were popular in Louisville for decades <br />o Put on a quarterly launch party for each new issue of The Louisville Historian, aimed at <br />members <br />o Provide a hub for local storytellers and reenactors <br />o Offer an evening "camp fire" experience with storytelling for children <br />o Invite the public to watch oral history interviews and other films, with discussion to follow, and <br />possibly with the narrator present to answer follow-up questions <br />o Have the Museum be the start of a scavenger hunt in downtown Louisville for teens or couples <br />o Help organize activities for class reunions for people who graduated from local high schools <br />o Organize informal class reunions for adults with music and stories, such as for people who <br />graduated between 1980 and 1985 (no need to have attended school in Louisville) <br />o Provide a place for young professionals to network or attend business workshops, possibly in <br />coordination with the Chamber of Commerce <br />o Invite Dick Del Pizzo to demonstrate and talk about how he made the buildings for the Replica <br />of downtown Louisville <br />o Provide a fun location for City departmental celebrations <br />o Have a dinner with an expert as a fundraiser, and other events involving members, in <br />partnership with the Louisville History Foundation <br />o Host a reunion of local Vietnam era veterans, with a panel discussion <br />o Host meetings of affinity groups such as the History Book Club <br />o Coordinate with the City's Human Resources Department for visits to the Louisville Visitor <br />Center & Historical Museum to be integrated into orientations for new employees, leading to <br />even stronger personal connections between new employees and the town where they work <br />The Museum also intends to work on the following interpretive strategies with respect to off-site <br />programming in connection with the Museum campus changes and increased operational funding: <br />o The creation of an updated self -guided walking tour brochure of downtown Louisville that <br />would include both historic and newer sites; this would be put on the website as a PDF and <br />would benefit tourists, residents, and businesses. <br />o Providing literature to promote the Museum and downtown to the Louisville hotels, including <br />maps showing how to get downtown. <br />30 <br />