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Director-led tour spotlights preservation needs and community donations at Rock Springs historical museum
Summary
Jennifer Messer, director of the city's historical museum, led a recorded tour highlighting masonry repairs planned for the sandstone city hall building, key exhibits (coal room, Mosler safe, original jail and fire station) and volunteer efforts to digitize the collection for public access.
Jennifer Messer, director of the city's historical museum, led a recorded tour of the museum housed in the former Rock Springs City Hall and outlined preservation work needed to keep the 19th-century sandstone building in use.
"This building was built in 1894, and it's all local sandstone," Messer said, describing how water exposure damages the stone. She said stoneworkers perform "point and tuck, route work" and that crews who worked on the B Street side have plans to work on the current section in the summer.
Messer emphasized the community role in maintaining the collection: "Everything that we have in the museum, and I mean every single thing we have, is donated." The museum has no budget to buy artifacts, she said, and relies on family heirlooms and civic scrapbooks for exhibits used in research and school tours.
The tour…
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