Historical Museum Advisory Board Agenda and Packet 2024 09 18

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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: September 18, 2024 Re: Museum Services Supervisor's Report September is Louisville History Month! Museum staff were working hard over the past few months getting the Museum campus ready to debut the new Outdoor Education Space. With the help of mothers and daughters from the National Charity League and other volunteers, we stained and assembled a chicken coop and also installed a permanent laundry line in the Museum's backyard. Earlier in the spring we also planted an Italian garden in the courtyard planter boxes. The plants are thriving with sprinklers newly installed by the Parks Department. The Outdoor Education space allows us to bring history outdoors and will be a great resource for sharing how backyards were used in Louisville, as well as the types of chores children typically did around the house and in the yard. The space includes interpretive signage for the ash pit, outhouse, chicken coop, and laundry line. The chicken coop is currently a demonstration coop, without live chickens. There is separate signage for the Italian garden. There will soon be additional signage in front of the Tomeo House for passers-by to learn about the history of the Jacoe Store, Tomeo House, and Jordinelli House on the Museum campus. The Members Only event on September 6th was a lovely reception thanking Museum members and the community for their support for the Museum and the preservation of Louisville history. Artist James Dixon brought several of his bronze pieces and talked with members about the Fire Vase that was installed on the Museum campus in May. We continue with conservation and preservation of important Museum artifacts. The chimneys for the Jacoe Store, Tomeo House, and Summer Kitchen were repaired and restored by Old English Masonry using historic bricks and better mortar. This month we will also be sending the 1920s menu which has been on display, out for conservation work with conservator Jennifer McGlinchey Sexton. She will be repairing and stabilizing the boards and framing. Textile conservator Paulette Reading will also be providing consultation services for conservation and display of the Rex Curtain. Hadley Kluber Seifert has been preparing films from various decades in the Museum's collection for digitization. Gigi Yang will be attending the American Association for State and Local History annual conference where she and Bridget Bacon will accept the Leadership in History Award for the Museum's work after the Marshall Fire. Summer King and Sophia Imperioli are researching and preparing the next Louisville Historian and front window exhibit on the Vietnam War for November.