A small group of us has been working closely with the Marin History Museum on the Marin County Law Enforcement Museum Project. Harry Barbier was appointed to their Board of Directs a year or so ago and has been keeping our group up to date on the MHM's activities and how it is looking for our Marin County Law Enforcement Museum Project. With the issues surrounding COVAD-19 and the restrictions we've not been able to meet as a group or work with MHM staff.
Harry updated our group a couple of days ago. A big "Thank you!" to Harry for all his work on this project and for housing all the donated material. Here is his update.
There was no fundraiser this year, but the museum did get some money from the county to help with rent. The museum applied to the city to get back into the Boyd gatehouse and it looks like that will happen. They will take it over at the end of Jan if all goes well. This would give us a place to display some of our items. The museum itself in Novato is still closed to the public. I would think that by the first part of 2021 we could start to transfer some of our items to them, if this Covid thing calms down. They are working hard to get more money. At the moment they have enough funds to last about 18 months if no other income is received, however the county has come forward to help and they are looking at other sources, so I am a little more hopeful that they will remain solvent. They are not going to look for a director for the time being, but Heather is still there.
I told Harry I was sad to learn of the news, but not surprised given the past fund raising problems faced by MHM.
Our group still has to conduct an inventory and enter the information into the MHM's database before we turn over any more material. Harry will work on this next part of our efforts to get our donated material into MHM's facility and on display.
We'll update when we have more information.
Gene Pennington
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