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Pueblo County Historical Society warns sale of B Street building would jeopardize museum collections and programs
Summary
The museum's leaders told council the city’s plan to sell the B Street Building could force a costly, risky relocation that would interrupt public programs, research services and stewardship of tens of thousands of artifacts and records.
Pamela Jacobson, president of the Pueblo County Historical Society and Heritage Museum, and Dr. John Wendt, the society’s executive director, told the council on March 17 that selling the B Street Building at 201 W. B Street would imperil the society’s collections, volunteer programs and free public events.
Jacobson and Wendt said the merged nonprofit now operates a public museum, a research library and a 1,400-square-foot Heritage Room used for meetings, talks and paid rentals. Wendt said the organization cares for roughly 35,000 individual artifacts and records, roughly 6,000 artifacts in museum holdings, and about 3,500 artifacts on exhibit. The Edward Broadhead Research Library holds about 20,000 original photographs, 1,500 books, 500 oral histories and more than 400 original maps and blueprints.
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