The Brockport Community Museum brings local history directly to the Victorian Village of Brockport, NY and the surrounding community.
Vision:
– Make local history accessible to the community at no cost. – Develop awareness of community needs.
– Enable on-going resident participation.
– Find and preserve historic materials before lost.
– Support other local history repositories.
– Increase our visibility to the community.
Implementation:
– Make local history accessible to the community at no cost.
• Being a Museum Without Walls, there is no admission fee.
– Develop awareness of community needs.
• Identify various audiences and uses: Genealogy; Curriculum; Tourism, etc.
– Enable on-going resident participation in Museum projects and activities.
• Encourage response to Museum projects through email, blogs, etc. • Grow the “Friends of the Museum” (per our bylaws).
– Find and preserve historic materials and/or memories not yet publicly available, before they are lost.
• Interview groups, individuals and families; record memories, images and artifacts.
– Support other local history repositories.
• Work with existing and emerging local history organizations (Museums, Libraries, Archives, Societies) such as the Capen Fire Museum, Emily L. Knapp Museum, Morgan-Manning House / Western Monroe Historical Society, Seymour Library, SUNY Brockport Archives, and others.
• Consolidate existing content from various sources into single focus topics for use in projects such as Interpretive Panels, Exhibit Cases, and the Web Site.
– Increase our visibility to the community to enable the above vision.
• Utilize traditional and social media to continually increase the visibility of the Museum, its members, constituents and projects.
The Brockport Community Museum is a "Museum Without Walls" that brings local history into the community. It was chartered by the New York State Education Department in 2002.
