<div dir="ltr"><span id="gmail-docs-internal-guid-237c01eb-7fff-92c1-a0a0-cb35a3bcf86c"><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Hello Everyone,</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">My name is Elizabeth Peterson and I’m the Museum Curator for the Vancouver Police Museum and Archives. I’m reaching out to the wider BCMA community with the hope to receive feedback on an idea that I’ve been working on to help connect our museums with each other, our communities, and to encourage local tourism in BC. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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.</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">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). </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I would also suggest potentially adding 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. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">And that is it. Very simple, free, and easy to use! </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">I would greatly appreciate any feedback about this idea. The example website can be accessed here: </span><a href="https://mylocalmuseums.com/" style="text-decoration-line:none"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;text-decoration-line:underline;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">https://mylocalmuseums.com/</span></a><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">    <u>password:</u> <b>ebert</b>. 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. </span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"> </p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.656;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">If you like the idea and are interested in joining My Local Museums, reply to this email and let me know. I’ll be putting together a founders group where we can discuss and decide on some of the finer details. </span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Thank you for your time, and stay safe!</span></p><br><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Best,</span></p><p dir="ltr" style="line-height:1.38;margin-top:0pt;margin-bottom:0pt"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Arial;color:rgb(0,0,0);background-color:transparent;font-variant-numeric:normal;font-variant-east-asian:normal;vertical-align:baseline;white-space:pre-wrap">Elizabeth</span></p></span><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"><div><br></div>-- <br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr">Elizabeth Peterson, Ph.D.<div>Museum Curator<br><div>Vancouver Police Museum</div><div><a href="mailto:curator@vancouverpolicemuseum.ca" target="_blank">curator@vancouverpolicemuseum.ca</a></div><div> </div><div>  <img src="https://docs.google.com/uc?export=download&amp;id=1IHOLl2l_gId6DaGPtQVDjXYkvn9DmFVZ&amp;revid=0B5mjJgRVlGSkenU1cnVZeitOU1RjWS9IMk9SZkZ6Ky9WMWc0PQ" width="200" height="129"><br></div><div><br></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div></div>