P\u00e1gina web de VC Star<\/a><\/em><\/p>\nElena Brokaw, who has served as interim executive director of the Museum of Ventura County since July 2016, has been named the executive director.<\/p>\n
The announcement came Thursday during a “moment of gratitude” meeting\u00a0where Brokaw gave an update on the museum’s status.<\/p>\n
The museum was faced with possible closure earlier this year due to financial issues. It was bailed out by the\u00a0Ventura City Council and the Ventura County Board of Supervisors, each of which gave $125,000 to the museum, with the stipulation that it report back in six months on how it would improve its finances, assess its collection and, in essence, become a better-managed, financially solvent institution.<\/p>\n
Since then, the museum has appointed a new board of directors, which was introduced Thursday, and has\u00a0secured $1.675 million in corporate and individual gifts, Brokaw told the audience. She also shared a five-year plan to diversify the museum’s\u00a0revenue streams.<\/p>\n
Brokaw also announced that the museum now has a location in Camarillo for cataloging and storing its extensive collection, which includes\u00a0artifacts, photography and personal memorabilia documenting more than 150 years of Ventura County history.<\/p>\n
\n\u201cThe museum has so many treasures that for years have been packed away in storage,\u201d Brokaw said, according to a news release from the museum.\u00a0\u201cWe are eager to begin a formal process of identifying and cataloging the entire collection, and expanding our programming to incorporate all of the pieces of history currently in our care.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
Also during the meeting, Brokaw accepted $5,000 from California Resource Corp. to seed the museum\u2019s new corporate giving program. With its director, Vanessa Bechtel, in attendance, the Ventura County Community Foundation responded, committing to\u00a0a Corporate Platinum Membership of $2,500.<\/p>\n
In the coming week, the museum is holding two community meetings to ask the public a question:\u00a0\u201cWhat do you want from your museum?\u201d<\/p>\n
The first meeting will begin at 6 p.m. Tuesday at the Ojai Valley Museum,\u00a0130 W. Ojai Ave. in Ojai.\u00a0Check-in and a reception will start\u00a0at\u00a05:30 p.m.<\/p>\n
The second meeting will take place at 6 p.m. Wednesday at the Agriculture Museum, 926 Railroad Ave. in Santa Paula. A reception will begin\u00a0at 5 p.m. at the Blanchard Community Library, 119 N. Eighth St., a short walk away.<\/p>\n
The\u00a0meetings are free, but\u00a0reservations are encouraged. To RSVP, visit\u00a0http:\/\/venturamuseum.org<\/a>\u00a0or call 653-0323.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":1449,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"give_campaign_id":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1906","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-coverage"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1906"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1906\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1449"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1906"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1906"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vccf.org\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1906"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}