DID YOU KNOW? Creating the Best Visitor Experience: Improving Accessibility The Colorado Springs Pioneers Museum made it a priority to focus on the visitor experience and strive to make it exemplary in our 2023 Strategic Plan. This includes welcoming all visitors and striving to be accessible to everyone. This month, we expanded our accessibility services by installing a LOOP System in our Division I Courtroom and Henderson Gallery. A LOOP System is a special type of sound system for individuals who use hearing aids. This system will enhance the sound for individuals using hearing aids by filtering unwanted background noise. We are delighted to now offer this service for our upcoming programs and reach closer to our goal of creating an exemplary visitor experience at the CSPM. The Starsmore Center: Now Open JEROME WHEELER RESIDENCE AND GREENHOUSE, MANITOU SPRINGS. FREDERICK STEHR COLLECTION, STARSMORE CENTER The Starsmore Center for Local History (SCLH) is once again open to researchers! We are thrilled to welcome Hillary Mannion as the new CSPM Archivist. You may remember Hillary served as the Museum Registrar from 2013 to 2017, at which time she took the opportunity to live in Olympia, Washington and Asheville, North Carolina with her family. Hillary’s experience working in archival collections includes her work with the White House Historical Association and, most recently, the Bob Moog Foundation in Asheville. She is excited to return to Colorado and join the staff and volunteers of the CSPM in preserving and sharing the history of the Pikes Peak Region from the Archives. In the past few weeks, research has been conducted in our bound newspaper collection, the Zebulon Pike Chapter of the DAR Collection, the Francis Cragin Collection, Dr. Fredrick MacKay’s research on Colorado Brown Stain, John Stehr’s photographs of homes and residents of Manitou Springs, and the AdAmAn Collection. What will your next research project be? SCLH is the home of the CSPM Archives, a rich resource of manuscript collections, maps and blueprints, photographs, a robust reference library and more. A list of finding aids and manuscript collections can be found on the CSPM website, and the collection is searchable using the online database. Contact Hillary Mannion: E: Hillary.mannion@coloradosprings.gov P: 719-385-5650 MUSELETTER DECEMBER 2019| PG 6
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