Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2023 07 19

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Cityo 6 Louisville Historical Museum Memorandum To: Historical Commission From: Gigi Yang, Museum Services Supervisor Date: July 19, 2023 Re: Museum Services Supervisor's Report Viviana Guajardo has accepted the position of Museum Associate for Collections Management. She will be starting on July 18, 2023. Viviana has a Bachelor's degree in anthropology and sociology from Cornell College and a Masters Degree in anthropology from the University of Copenhagen. She has six years of experience working with a wide range of collections including 3D artifacts, photographs, and digitization projects with the City of Brighton Museum, Denver Museum of Nature and Science, History Colorado, and the Black American West Museum. We are excited to have Viviana join the Museum staff! The Museum's main focus in the next two months will be on re -interpreting the Tomeo House to better reflect the history and lifestyle of the Rossi family that lived in the house from 1924-1941. The 1920s through the 1940s were a pivotal time in Louisville's history and the Museum is fortunate to have a historic home in its original location on Main Street where we can personalize history through the lives of the Rossi family. The new interpretation includes more accurately furnishing the two bedrooms and the kitchen space to show how seven people lived in the house and the level of poverty and resourcefulness of the Rossi family during their residence. Museum staff will be creating interpretive panels to provide better understanding of daily life and historical context for social and economic events occurring in Louisville, in Colorado, and nationally such as the impacts of the rise of the KKK, Prohibition, and the Great Depression. For Louisville History Month in September, we will be sharing our deep dive into this time period through a feature article in the Louisville Historian and a front window exhibit titled "Tumultuous Times" that will be up through October. We will present the new interpretation of the Tomeo House at a Members Only preview event in August and at the First Friday event in September. In August, the Museum staff will be hosting fifty teachers from Louisville Middle School as part of their in-service training. We will be leading a short walking tour of downtown Louisville, tours of the Museum buildings, and an intro to Louisville history and educational resources available on the Museum website. This year, we were able to host classroom visits for all three Louisville elementary schools and we are looking forward to expanding our educational partnerships to Louisville Middle School.