Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2010 10 20

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Memorandum To:Historical Commission From:Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator Date:October 12, 2010 Re:Museum Coordinator’s Report I attended the ANFRM Professional Group Meetingat Four Mile Historic Park in Denver on th September 13. The topicfor the Professional Group meeting was how to construct protective mounts for collection storageand metal mounts for museum exhibits.In August, volunteer Mary Kay Knorr and I attended the ANFRM Volunteer Group Meeting at the Hiwan Homestead Museum in Evergreen. Museum volunteer Gail Khasawneh and I attended a ceremony at the Spirit of Flight Center in th Erie on September 30. The occasion was the posthumous awarding of the Congressional Medal of Honor to Mary Trebing, whowas a Women’s Airforce Service Pilot (WASP)during World War II and was killed in an airplane accident. She was from Louisville. Gail Khasawneh rd will be speaking about Mary Trebing and other servicemen and women on Nov. 3. The summer walking tours brought in total donations of $510 to the HistoricalCommission and averaged 25-30 people for each tour. As a reminder, the next Louisville Historianwill be a special issue consisting of one longer piece by Pete Lindquist about the earliest years of Louisville. The exhibit of photos and artifacts from the Museumthat I put together, “Who Do We Think We Are?”, is up in the lobby of the Louisville Public Library. The Louisville Art Association art competition entries, which this year havethe Historical Museum buildings and campus as the subject matter,aretobe hung at the Library on October th 15. Museum Visitors Report(these statistics represent visits to the Museum itself, andnot inquiries that come in by email or phone): August visitors: 107;September visitors 128; YTD visitors: 921 A recent analysis of visitor statistics showed that while the public hours for the first three quarters of 2010 are at 39% of what they were for the same period in 2009due to budget cutbacks, the number of visitors to the Museum for the first three quarters is at 69% of the numberof visitors for the same period in 2009.