[BCMA] My Local Museums- Call for Participants

[Moderated BCMA subscriber listserv.]

Hello All,

My name is Elizabeth Peterson and I’m the Museum Curator for the Vancouver
Police Museum and Archives. I sent out an email to the wider BCMA community
last week about a cross promotional platform I am working on called My
Local Museums. This free promotional platform aims to connect local museums
to each other and the public as well as to encourage local tourism. I
received great feedback and interest in the project and am preparing to
launch it by the end of the month. I’m reaching out again to see if any
other museums and/or heritage sites would be interested in also being a
part of this.



To recap on the idea:



Since re-opening our doors to the public last month, two of the most
frequently asked questions that we are receiving are: “What other local
museums are open that I can go to?”, and “What else can I do with my kids
that is educational?” To help answer these questions and support our museum
community, I’ve built a free cross promotional website called My Local
Museums. This is a simple website that contains information about local
museums in the area, along with a link to their websites.



The idea is that each participating museum would display a poster for My
Local Museums somewhere in their entry space. This poster would contain
information about the website (see attached poster) and act as a one stop
shop for visitors to see the different museums and heritage locations near
them. By having the poster up in your space, we can make finding each
others’ museums easier for visitors, without having the clutterersome card
racks. Plus, this option is 100% touch-free.



The only cost to each individual organization would be the printing of the
My Local Museums poster, which could be printed in-house on regular letter
sized paper. The website management would be very minimal (it’s designed so
that it should be a one time upload unless individual organizations change
their website’s domain or want to update the photo on the site).



There will also be a special 10% discount code for admission tickets for
the non-free Museums to help us individually and collectively track whether
this type of promotion works in bringing in new visitors to our museums.



And that is it. Very simple, free, and easy to use!

I have attached to this email the project synopsis with further
information. The example website can be accessed here:
https://mylocalmuseums.com/    password: ebert. The poster is attached to
this email as well. As of right now the website is designed so that people
can scroll through the different museums on one page, but if this becomes
too long of a scroll (due to lots of participation), I would redesign it to
group each museum/heritage site by city/region for ease of use. There is
also a map with the museums’ locations at the bottom of the page.



If you like the idea and are interested in joining My Local Museums or
simply have a question about it, please email me (
curator at vancouverpolicemuseum.ca). Also please feel free to pass on this
email to others who might be interested in participating.

Thank you for your time, and stay safe!

Best,

Elizabeth


-- 
Elizabeth Peterson, Ph.D.
Museum Curator
Vancouver Police Museum
curator at vancouverpolicemuseum.ca
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