<div dir="ltr">Hi Marina,<div>We, too, are a small underfunded Museum with a steadily declining membership. Our working board (only 6 people now) opens for Heritage Week (Feb. 17 - 22 this year) from noon - 4:00 p.m. each day. (We're usually only open from May end to Sept start or when someone phones for a tour in the off-season).</div><div><br></div><div>We use this opportunity to clean the Museum, adjust and tidy exhibits, file, clean off the workroom table (stuff seems to pile up over the winter), fill out paper work for donations of artefacts and archives, make coffee and bring goodies and just have some social time (we don't share a lot of interests outside the Museum, but enjoy each others' company on occasions like these), tour any visitors through the Museum and then invite them into the back room to socialize with us, have a regular monthly meeting, and just do some odd-ball stuff. Considering this year's theme, "Pastimes in Past Times", I think our approach will work quite nicely. I can remember my "house wife" Mom, in the 50s, working her buns off to keep the "perfect" house, but taking time at 10:00 a.m. each day to walk up the street and meet with the other women for coffee and socializing. Then back home she'd go to continue her day.</div><div><br></div><div>Sorry if this is a bit of a ramble - just what we do sometimes!!</div><div><br></div><div>Good luck,</div><div>Linda Hanson, Telkwa Museum Society</div></div><br><div class="gmail_quote gmail_quote_container"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Wed, Jan 15, 2025 at 3:41 PM Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv <<a href="mailto:listserv@lists.museum.bc.ca">listserv@lists.museum.bc.ca</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div><div style="font-family:"Helvetica Neue",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif;font-size:13px"><div dir="ltr">Hi the funding for BC Family Day has not been made available and at this late date it is hard to preplan and promote. Is anyone doing any activity based on Family Day or mainly focusing on the BC Heritage Week?</div><div dir="ltr">We operate a small museum in Ladysmith and are woefully underfunded.</div><div dir="ltr">Marina</div></div></div>_______________________________________________<br>
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