Message-ID: <4EB1508D.3050703@wi.rr.com> Date: Wed, 02 Nov 2011 09:15:41 -0500 From: Vern Magee <vmagee@wi.rr.com> Subject: Re: Museum Usage
The Geneva Lake Museum does rent our facility whenever we get a chance
and we have enjoyed the revenue we receive. We have two areas that
people can rent, one a large room with rest rooms and a separate
entrance. This has an hourly rent. The other is what we call our Main
Street, which resembles a cobblestone street with a black smith's shop,
a general store, telephone co, bank, etc on one side and rooms depicting
a parlor, bedroom, kitchen, etc on the other side. Tables can be placed
down the street and it is very attractive. We have hosted rehearsal
dinners, class reunions, anniversary parties, fund raising luncheons,
business Christmas parties, etc. Usually there is one staff person and
one or two volunteers, depending on the size of the group. We have had
a very favorable response whenever we have had groups lease the museum.
If anyone wants to talk to me about it, my home phone is 262 248 6249.
Vern Magee
vmagee@wi.rr.com
Geneva Lake Museum
On 10/31/2011 6:33 PM, Bill Schuette wrote:
> Does anyone have experience with allowing outside groups to rent the
> usage of your museums for political meetings, weddings or receptions,
> Christmas parties, etc.?
> We have been asked if we’d rent out the museum for an evening,
by a
> political party, for a purported Christmas Party. We allowed it last
> year, but many of our board
> members now have reservations about continuing the practice.
> How do other museums handle this kind of request?
> Bill
> Sauk County Historical Society