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Preserving History: Innovative Solutions for Historic Preservation and Community Engagement

We have one overriding goal at Earth&Sky Historical Services: to do our small. part to aid in the survival of historic organizations and sites and historic churches by making more people aware of their existence and give people reasons to visit.

6/1/20261 min read

Last week my wife and I visited Lyndhurst, a National Trust for Historic Preservation property and the masterwork of the nineteenth century American architect Alexander Jackson Davis. The house and grounds are incredible. What is not incredible is their introductory video playing continuously in the Visitor Center. Faded, marred, out-of-date, and with a sound track out-of-sync with the captions, it conveys basic information about the history of the house but little more.

Lyndhurst's website provides a much better impression with beautiful drone footage and 360 and conventional photos of the interior of the palatial house. One can hope that eventually portions of the website videos will be adapted as the core of a new introductory video.

But that old visitor introduction got me thinking about the public face of many historic sites and museums (including, to an extent, the organization on whose board I sit). In these challenging economic times and the diversity of leisure-time activities, museums and historic sites that once were flooded with visitors may go through more thann a week without any. Why?

Could it be that their public face is stuck in the 1960s, 1970s or 1980s? [more next week]

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