Edgewood Museum Case Study
Edgewood Museum
By Dayanaira Cornwell, Special to The Echoes
The Edgewood Museum is becoming a real life example of the Edgewood town saying “where vision meets reality.” The Edgewood museum corporation is a non-profitable organization. There are about eight board members on the museum corporation. The idea for the museum came about from a Facebook page called “Edgewood, Iowa history and more”. That Bart Hamlett, part of the Edgewood museum corporation made. He also is donating his whole Edgewood history collection to the museum. Which became the museums foundation for there artifacts. When the Edgewood museum corporation saw how interested people were in the history of Edgewood. They decided that people should have a place to go and be able …show more content…
The Edgewood museum has already put 80,000 in to renovating the building. The museum has enough money to even get a bit of furniture and pay their bills for a couple of months. The museum is financially doing quiet well because of the support of the community. According to the Edgewood Museum fundraising brochure, “The project has been accomplished by taking manageable steps as while as supported by donations from individuals, businesses, and organizations. The Edgewood museum corporation wanted to ensure that they had enough money for one step, then did that step and repeated the process for every step. So That they didn’t spend more them what they had and end up in debt before it even got running. The museum is meant to have a personal collation of Edgewood’s history and heritage. It would also have things like traveling displays, temporary displays of personal collections, public meeting space, children’s learning area. It would also have an outdoor display for like the local artwork display, craft display, host NICC classes, host speakers, host special programs, recording studio for capturing audio/video of citizens telling stories of the community, genealogy resources, teaching heritage crafts, a museum gift shop, a chamber office, and many other uses.” The museum will help
By Dayanaira Cornwell, Special to The Echoes
The Edgewood Museum is becoming a real life example of the Edgewood town saying “where vision meets reality.” The Edgewood museum corporation is a non-profitable organization. There are about eight board members on the museum corporation. The idea for the museum came about from a Facebook page called “Edgewood, Iowa history and more”. That Bart Hamlett, part of the Edgewood museum corporation made. He also is donating his whole Edgewood history collection to the museum. Which became the museums foundation for there artifacts. When the Edgewood museum corporation saw how interested people were in the history of Edgewood. They decided that people should have a place to go and be able …show more content…
The Edgewood museum has already put 80,000 in to renovating the building. The museum has enough money to even get a bit of furniture and pay their bills for a couple of months. The museum is financially doing quiet well because of the support of the community. According to the Edgewood Museum fundraising brochure, “The project has been accomplished by taking manageable steps as while as supported by donations from individuals, businesses, and organizations. The Edgewood museum corporation wanted to ensure that they had enough money for one step, then did that step and repeated the process for every step. So That they didn’t spend more them what they had and end up in debt before it even got running. The museum is meant to have a personal collation of Edgewood’s history and heritage. It would also have things like traveling displays, temporary displays of personal collections, public meeting space, children’s learning area. It would also have an outdoor display for like the local artwork display, craft display, host NICC classes, host speakers, host special programs, recording studio for capturing audio/video of citizens telling stories of the community, genealogy resources, teaching heritage crafts, a museum gift shop, a chamber office, and many other uses.” The museum will help