Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2016 11 02

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Cityot Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 Memorandum To: Historical Commission From: Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator Date: October 25, 2016 Re: Museum Coordinator's Report The Museum hosted a museum training meeting of the Association of Northern Front Range Museums (ANFRM) on Sept. 19th. With about 30 people in attendance, Megan Huelman and I gave presentations on building and maintaining museum membership programs. The meeting took place at the Library and we offered tours of the Methodist Church and the Museum afterwards. We had the help of a number of Museum volunteers for the meeting, lunch, and tours, and we wouldn't have been able to do it all without them. The Singing Cook is selling mugs showing images of the Louisville Historical Museum. The Singing Cook will donate 15% of the sales of the mugs to the Louisville History Foundation. Another new mug now available shows the Louisville Arts Center at Memory Square. The Planning Dept. of the City received five proposals to do Historic Context Studies for Louisville. This project, which is being funded by the Historic Preservation Fund, was listed as an immediate action item in the Preservation Master Plan. I assisted with interviewing three of the consultants on September 30th, along with HPC members Cyndi Thomas and Mike Koertje, Rob Zuccaro, Director of Planning & Building Safety, and Lauren Trice, Associate Planner. The interview team selected PaleoWest, located in Denver, to work with the City to develop the Historic Context Studies over the upcoming months. The three themes to be covered are Louisville's residential development, Louisville's commercial development, and Louisville's agricultural, railroad, and mining origins. I will work closely with PaleoWest to provide historical resources, information, and photos from the Historical Museum. PaleoWest will also do public outreach with residents as part of this project. This is school tour time at the Museum. We recently gave tours to Coal Creek second graders. Coming up in November will be visits from two other schools. Thanks to the resources of the City, three recent Museum programs were recorded in the Library meeting room and will be accessible on the Internet and on Channel 8. Museum Visitors Report (these statistics represent visits to the Museum itself, and not inquiries that come in by email or phone): Sept. visitors: 442; YTD: 3106.