Historical Commission Agenda and Packet 2020 11 18

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L cityqf Louisville COLORADO -SINCE 1878 Memorandum To: Historical Commission From: Bridget Bacon, Museum Coordinator Date: November 10, 2020 Re: Museum Coordinator's Report The City recently gave the Museum the opportunity to have a color insert about the Museum in the hard -copy Winter Community Update that the City will mail to all households. The Winter Community Update covers the months of December 2020 through February 2021. Since this opportunity to let residents know about the Museum doesn't come along very often, we decided to highlight the important overall role of the Historical Museum in the community. The final version that we submitted follows this page in the packet. We were very happy to put this together. Boulder County is in "Level Orange: Safer at Home High Risk" as of November 6. For the in - person tours by appointment at the Museum, this means that everyone in a tour group of six people or fewer will need to be from the same household. (Facial coverings and social distancing are also required.) The Museum staff has continued to work on engaging with the public in many different ways. In addition to the activities that I let you all know about in September, we will begin offering virtual tours of the Museum starting in December. The staff can tailor them to the needs of school classes or pods. The first virtual tours on the calendar are ones that we'll give to Louisville Elementary School second graders in early December (replacing the field trips to the Museum that LES second graders would normally go on). The Museum recently mailed the Fall 2020 issue of the Louisville Historian and membership renewal reminder postcards. Please let me know if you have any questions about them! In late September, the Museum staff members each made time to attend the online national conference of the American Assn. for State & Local History (AASLH). We had access to live and prerecorded sessions relating to the work of small to mid -size history museums, including several relating to issues of diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion that we participated in.