The Gloucester Museum of History received a $50,000 grant from the Virginia Museum of History and Culture’s Commonwealth History Fund to develop “new and dynamic exhibits in the museum’s second floor gallery,” according to Museums Coordinator Robert Kelly.
At the museum’s opening in 2000, the second-floor exhibits were created by volunteers, said Kelly. Updating the second-floor gallery will allow the museum “to tell new and different stories.”
Last fall, the museum hired Moser Productions, a professional museum design firm, to “create renderings of what the second floor could look like,” said Kelly.
The museum held a meeting with staff, volunteers and stakeholders in November to broadly discuss themes and topics of what could be featured in the second-floor space.
The grant from VMHC will help the museum to begin work on the second floor. The Gloucester Museum Foundation will also make fundraising for this project a top priority this year.
Next steps for this project include engaging ...