From: Jason Tish <jason.tish@gmail.com> Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2019 15:51:09 -0500 Message-ID: <CAMxN_vG4fHYMGU9EjPHGFosUVFO=qmHgu3Ubo+MQjiBOe=GQKg@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: advice for starting a local history center
Hi Tom-
Thanks so much for your offer to share your advice. I'd love to hear your
experience. I don't get to Appleton, but if you're ever through Madison
let's make some time to get coffee.
-Jason Tish
Madison Local History Museum Working Group
On Tue, Oct 1, 2019 at 11:13 AM Sutter2519 <sutter2519@aol.com> wrote:
> Dear Jason,
>
> We at Appleton Historical Society started 10 years ago also with a shadow
> of 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 101
> APPLETON, 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
> history center for Madison. Local history in Madison is a unique
> situation. 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 collections, and the Dane County Historical Society. We have a
> solid handle on that niche.
>
> What we really need advice on is how to actually plan for, and create the
> physical space for a history center/museum/research facility. Our current
> model entails a small exhibition space, and archival facility, and space
> for an office, a reading room, and presentations. We expect it to be an
> iterative 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 order to demonstrate the need for a permanent facility. We can
> do do that initially 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 expect)
>
> 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 before you started?
>
> --
> - Jason
>
-- - Jason