The Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society has established a Museum Restoration Committee with a mandate of restoring and modernizing the museum to enhance our tourists and visitors experience. Unfortunately this will necessitate the closure of the building to the public for the remainder of the year. We look forward to seeing all our friends, neighbours and tourists when we re-open our doors.
HEART’S CONTENT MIZZEN HERITAGE SOCIETY COMMUNITY MUSEUM UPDATE
Mr. Ed Arnott
Mizzen Heritage Society presidentHeart’s Content Community Museum Update
Enhancing the Visitor Experience in Heart’s ContentOur Community Museum has now been closed for four years. The 100+ year old building, originally the Methodist Schoolhouse, is in sad shape and in bad need of restoration and modernization. The Heart’s Content Mizzen Heritage Society (MHS) established a Museum Restoration Committee (Ed Arnott, Ted Rowe, Dave Lough and Gord Tavenor) to oversee and guide the steps necessary before we could apply for the financial assistance needed.
In partnership with the Heart’s Content Community Development Corporation (HCCDC), we have commissioned the following research and development reports and have reached the following milestones:
the Mills and Wright Heart’s Content Interpretive Framework and Landscape Development Plan;
the Octopus Consulting Heart’s Content Visitor Experience Plan;
the Jane Severs Mizzen Centre Business Case;
and the HCCDC conducted two very successful auctions in part to fundraise the money that the MHS will have to pay toward the project.
After hundreds of hours of meetings, hard work and effort, the funding applications for ACOA and the provincial Dept of Industry, Energy and Technology are now completed and were submitted on Aug. 8 by MHS. The estimated project cost is $391,300. Now it’s a waiting game to see if ACOA and IET will approve our applications. We are calling the project Enhancing the Visitor Experience in Heart’s Content.
