Date: Tue, 1 Oct 2019 01:55:14 +0000 (UTC) From: Sutter2519 <sutter2519@aol.com> Message-ID: <1482860505.1794264.1569894914008@mail.yahoo.com> Subject: Re: advice for starting a local history center
Dear Jason,
We at Appleton Historical Society started 10 years ago also with a shadow o
f another older larger society. I would love to share our story with
you. Are you ever in Appleton? I would make a trip to Mad Town
if need be. Let me know.
Tom Sutter, President ATTORNEY THOMAS H. SUTTER
2631 N. MEADE STREET, SUITE 101APPLETON, WI 54911
920 991 0405
920 991 0407 FAX
920 585 1379 CELL
-----Original Message-----
From: Jason Tish <jason.tish@gmail.com>
To: localhistory <localhistory@listserve.uwec.edu>
Sent: Mon, Sep 30, 2019 5:27 pm
Subject: advice for starting a local history center
Hi everyone-
I'm involved with a small energetic group working on a plan for a local his
tory center for Madison. Local history in Madison is a unique situati
on. We have only a narrow niche that is not covered by the State Historical
Society, the UW Archives, the Madison Public Library's local history colle
ctions, and the Dane County Historical Society. We have a solid handle on t
hat niche.
What we really need advice on is how to actually plan for, and create the p
hysical space for a history center/museum/research facility. Our current mo
del entails a small exhibition space, and archival facility, and space for
an office, a reading room, and presentations. We expect it to be an iterati
ve process where we start out in a space that may not have all of that. Our
priority is to bring together a collection of documents and artifacts in o
rder to demonstrate the need for a permanent facility. We can do do that in
itially in a facility that doesn't;t meet all of our needs, and later move
to facility that does (unless fund-raising proves more successful than we e
xpect)
If you have ever been involved in developing a local history facility, what
is the one piece of advice (or two) that you wish someone had given you be
fore you started?
-- - Jason