Historical Museum Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2024 07 17

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I 12 City of f Om Louisville Historical Museum Memorandum To: Historical Museum Advisory Board From: Gigi Yang, Museum Services Supervisor Date: July 17, 2024 Re: Museum Services Supervisor's Report This summer has been busy with improvements to the Museum campus. Local sign painter, Ed Helmstead, completed cleaning and touch ups to the hand -painted signs on the Jacoe building which included the "Coca Cola" mural, "Louisville Historical Museum" sign over the front door, and the small "Parking" sign. The signs had become sun faded and are now restored to their original vibrancy. Parks cleaned up and added new plantings to the garden beds and Museum staff planted an Italian garden in the Courtyard planter boxes. We are also very pleased to have the addition of the "Fire Vase" a bronze sculpture of a vase that survived the Marshall Fire. Artist James Dixon will attend the September First Friday to talk about the sculpture and its conservation after the fire. We are in the process of adding UV film to the windows in the Jacoe building and Tomeo House to help protect historic artifacts from harmful UV radiation that can fade and damage materials. We are happy to welcome two summer interns - Millie Keogh is the Outreach and Education intern and Kira Boatright is the Collections intern. Millie is pursuing an undergraduate degree in English at Dartmouth College and has been assisting with tours and programs, as well as preparing education materials for the outdoor education space. Kira is earning a master's degree in history from UC Denver and is assisting with the collections re -organization and inventory projects. In June, the American Association for State and Local History (AASLH) awarded the Museum a Leadership in History Award of Excellence for our work on the Marshall Fire Story Project. This project was launched in the immediate aftermath of the Marshall Fire to document the historic nature of the event through collecting personal accounts, oral histories, photos, and documents as well as assisting victims with fire -damaged items salvaged from their homes through a series of conservation workshops. The Award of Excellence is a national award that recognizes projects demonstrating "excellence in the collection, preservation, and interpretation of state and local history in order to make the past more meaningful to all people." Museum Associates Summer King and Hadley Kluber Seifert recently completed a grant -based project for Museums for Digital Learning, an online resource that provides educational content based on Museum collections around the world. Summer and Hadley developed a module on coal and coal -mining for 6-8t" graders. Sophia Imperioli has been researching and working on the next Louisville Historian feature article on women business owners.