Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2018 07 18

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IL: Cityf Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 Memorandum To: Historical Commission From: Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator Date: July 11, 2018 Re: Museum Coordinator's Report The July First Friday Art Walk, which at the Museum featured the topic of "Soda Parlor History," drew 297 visitors to the Museum last Friday, while the one in June on the topic of the Louisville Society of Italian Americans resulted in 185 visitors to the Museum. The topic for the First Friday Art Walk at the Museum in August will be Lafayette history. Summer walking tours are also underway and have been well -received. In a collaboration between the Museum Division of our department and the Open Space Division of the Parks & Recreation Dept., I led a tour from Harper Lake to the Matchless Mine site last night. People RSVP'd early and the quota of about 20 people was met quickly. The Open Space staff and I coordinated with each other and I plan to give the tour again in late August to 20 additional people who are on the waiting list. Gigi Yang has joined the Museum staff as the Museum Technician and Hannah Gonzales is this year's Oral History Intern. They join Jason Hogstad, who is the Visitor Services Representative this year, and I'm very happy to have the opportunity to work with all of them on our services and programs at the Museum. Lauren Trice, who worked in the Planning Department on historic preservation issues, recently left her position and moved away. A new staff member will be hired in her position to work on historic preservation in Louisville. PDFs of historical building reports that I've written for the City are in the process of being put on the City website so that they will be more publicly accessible. Also, the City is starting to show on Channel 8 the ten oral history interviews that were put on YouTube earlier this year. Paying memberships with the Museum and the Louisville History Foundation now total 850. These include 83 new paying memberships received so far this year, many of them as a result of the Foundation's "Love Louisville" mailing. Museum Visitors Report (these statistics represent visits to the Museum itself, and not inquiries that come in by email or phone): May visitors: 405; June visitors: 413; YTD: 1,634.