Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2021 03 17

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ofL LC1 ouistiYville Memorandum To: Historical Commission From: Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator Date: March 10, 2021 Re: Museum Coordinator's Report Since the January Commission meeting, Boulder County has moved to Level Yellow on the State COVID-19 Dial. The Museum now offers tours by appointment for up to 10 people at a time, with no restrictions on the number of households represented. For these in - person tours, the Museum staff conducts much of the tours outside due to the small sizes of the buildings and the need for social distancing. We are also looking ahead to when the Museum can reopen to walk-in visitors, although there will likely still be restrictions on how many people can be in each building at a time. Although the Museum is not open for regular public hours, the Museum staff continues to offer virtual tours by appointment and responds to public inquiries made by phone and email regarding potential donations, historical research questions, membership, and other topics. The Museum recently sponsored two live historical talks in webinar format on the topic of the 1920s and race and labor issues in the Louisville area, and we are looking into organizing and sponsoring additional live webinars in the upcoming months. Virtual tours for preschool classes are a brand-new offering that the Museum plans to continue to make available as long as there is interest. The Museum staff is in the process of planning several outdoor programs in the late spring and summer, including walking tours, an outdoor photo project, and a vintage baseball game from the Colorado Vintage Base Ball Association at Miners Field in September. The "Lenses on Louisville" community photo project on May 8 and May 22 will involve inviting people to take photos of two neighborhoods and donate their photos to the Museum so that the Museum has documentation of the way that Louisville looks now.