Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2018 11 28

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Cityof I Louisville COLORADO • SINCE 1878 Memorandum To: Historical Commission From: Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator Date: Nov. 20, 2018 Re: Museum Coordinator's Report A few days after the most recent Historical Commission meeting, in September, the new Museum website became active. It is still part of the City website and still has the URL of www.louisvilleco.gov/museum. The Museum webpages were previously part of the Library website instead of being distinct from the Library website. The new website offers more content and ease of use. By arrangement with the staff liaisons for the Youth Advisory Board, I'm scheduled to attend the YAB meeting on Thursday, Feb. 7th at 6:30 PM to talk about the Historical Museum and Historical Commission with the YAB members. Last year, the YAB started using this method of familiarizing itself with other City boards and organizations instead of having individual YAB members sign up to sit in on meetings of other boards. We have 10-20 minutes set aside for this at the beginning of the meeting. I'll ask for who from the Commission would like to go with me during the Nov. 28th Commission meeting. The director of the Golden History Museum invited me and other museum professionals along the Front Range who manage public municipal museums to a meeting in order to share common experiences. This is because municipal museums have governance, funding, and other structures that are different from those of private museums that are owned and operated by 501c3s. The meeting took place recently in Golden with about 12 municipal/governmental museum managers in attendance. It was a great first meeting to share successes, challenges, and common experiences. The plan is for the group to start to meet on a quarterly basis. Gigi Yang and I have been working to catalogue and digitize more historic photos from the collection. There are now over 4,100 images from the collection that are viewable and searchable online through the PastPerfect Online link on the Museum website. Museum Visitors Report (these statistics represent visits to the Museum itself, and not inquiries that come in by email or phone): September visitors: 384; October visitors: 332; YID: 3209.