Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2021 05 19

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Cityoj Louisville COLORADO• SINCE 187 Memorandum To: Historical Commission From: Bridget Bacon, Museum Services Supervisor Date: May 12, 2021 Re: Museum Services Supervisor's Report For the Museum's "Lenses on Louisville" community photo project on May 8, the staff spoke with 34 people, of whom about 20 were participants who went out on assignment in downtown Louisville to take photos of buildings. The Museum staff asked each person or group working together to concentrate on a particular area of downtown. Besides donating their time and skills, the participants generously donated 1,668 photos to the Museum that day! The next Lenses on Louisville event comes up on May 22, when we'll invite people to photograph the Miners Field neighborhood. We would like to offer these events annually, focusing on a different neighborhood each time. These will greatly help with documenting the way Louisville looks now! The Spring 2021 Louisville Historian is out, and I hope that you've all received it. Kaylyn Flowers's article about the history of trash in Louisville is a great addition to the Museum's history articles and her topic shows yet another way of thinking about Louisville history. This particular issue was mailed to 926 people, businesses, and organizations. Of these, 813 are paying members who pay dues to the Louisville History Foundation. The Museum is looking to re -open to walk-in visitors starting on Tuesday, May 18th. The plan is for Museum to be open Tuesday through Saturday, as it was before it closed to walk-in visitors last year. However, instead of being open from 10 to 3 every day, on Wednesdays it will be open from 1 to 6. This is so that the Museum can be open during a time when people come downtown to eat. The Wednesday hours will also make it easier to accommodate young people during the open hours, instead of the Museum being open only when they are in school. The Museum will be open from 10 to 3 on the other four days of the week. For now, the Museum staff is planning to limit capacity to 8 people at a time in each of the buildings due to the buildings' small sizes.