Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2019 07 17

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L Cityo Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 187S Memorandum To: Historical Commission From: Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator Date: July 9, 2019 Re: Museum Coordinator's Report The Museum has started to use EventBrite for advance registration for some programs and it's been very successful. In the case of a program cancellation, the Museum staff would be able to email the registrants directly. During the First Friday Art Walk in June, when we featured the wild burros, we had 465 visitors over a period of about two hours. Due in part to that event, the Museum had its highest monthly total of visitors ever, with 959 visitors during the month of June. At the end of May, Betty Scarpella decided to resign from the Historical Commission. Betty still plans to volunteer to help the Museum. The City will likely decide to fill the opening later this year, at the same time other board vacancies are filled. Last year, a group of municipal museum managers in the area started to meet regularly to discuss issues of common interest. Sharon and I attended the most recent meeting in Greeley. Meg Murphy started recently as this year's Museum Oral History Intern. We're happy to have her help with preserving, cataloging, and providing access to the oral history interviews. CenterStage Theatre Company is putting on a production of Thornton Wilder's "Our Town" that will be presented as an immersive, traveling theatre experience. I've been working with the directors to have Act II take place on the Museum campus. Look for tickets sales on the Center Stage website (there are to be six performance dates around the first two weekends of August). The Museum will soon announce its new Instagram account! Also, the Museum was approached to have its online photo collection added to the DPLA (Digital Public Library of America) so that it will be accessible and searchable alongside other museum and library collections at one website. We expect Louisville's records to be added soon. Museum Visitors Report (these statistics represent visits to the Museum itself, and not inquiries that come in by email or phone): May visitors: 366; June visitors: 959; YTD: 1948.