The Healdsburg Museum held its annual meeting at the Krug Center on Jan. 18 and elected its 2018 board of directors. Executive director and curator Holly Hoods reviewed 2017 highlights and previewed the 2018 exhibitions.
Ronnie Devitt continues as president of the board; Jim Brush as past president; Eric Ziedrich as vice president and Phyllis Chiosso Liu as secretary. Mark Decker joins the board as treasurer and Jon Eisenberg as assistant treasurer. Other board members are Jerry Eddinger, Carol Peterson, Kay Robinson, Ken Spadoni, Ann Howard, Rawleigh Fjeld, Jeanne Leal Hartlaub and Lockie Gilles. The museum thanked its two retiring directors, Phil Hartlaub and Barry Stallard, for their years of service.
During 2017 the museum hosted over 5,000 visitors to four exhibitions in the main gallery, and the year-long WWl Centennial exhibition in the Matheson-Luce gallery on the first floor.
The museum’s educational outreach conducted the family history essay contest, guided school tours of the museum and lessons in Pomo culture and history to third grade classes. The museum saw completion of the restored Leda fountain at Oak Mound Cemetery, responded to over 500 research inquiries and designed and launched a new website that will offer greater access to historical records.
These efforts were made possible in large part by volunteers, who contributed over 11,000 hours in facilitating the museum’s many community endeavors.
In 2018 the museum will present four thematic exhibitions: She Persisted, featuring notable women and women’s organizations in local history; Healdsburg’s Architectural Heritage, in local homes and buildings; A Sense of Place, paintings and art by local artists or about local subjects; and A Season for Santas, a holiday exhibition with a gazillion Santas, along with model trains. There will also be a year-long exhibition based on the history of the local Future Farmers of America chapter.
Admission to the museum is always free and the museum is open Wednesday through Sundays, 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.
— submitted by Tom Devitt
