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The Adams County Historical Society museum will be hosting its first ever ghost tour on Oct 24th at 9601 Henderson road from 5:30 until 7. It will explain the real historical events and people involved in ghost stories throughout adams county including nearby riverdale road and the museum itself which is on the land that used to be the old asylum. There will be spiced cider and a free fortune teller as well. Tickets are only 5 dollars each and the proceeds go to the museum's work renovating the natural history exhibit. To sign up or get more information, you can go to www.adamscountymuseum.com/haunted

Hello,

On Oct 24th the Adams County Historical Society museum will be hosting a ghost tour of the museum. It will feature historical accounts of deaths and local macabre events, including things that happened on museum grounds and on nearby Riverdale road. Cost to attend is only 5 dollars. Proceeds go to the museum which is trying to raise money to remodel their natural history exhibit. There will also be spiced cider and free fortune telling.

You can find more information on the website at www.AdamsCountyMuseum.com/haunted

Hello.

On October 24th from 5:30-7 the Adams County Historical Society museum at 9601 Henderson road will be hosting the first ever haunted history tour. It will feature historic accounts of deaths and macabre historical events in the area including the museum grounds. Local ghost sightings will be mentioned in the tour as well. It's 5 dollars per person and the proceeds go to the museum which is trying to raise money for a revamped natural history display.

Tickets can be purchased at www.AdamsCountyMuseum.com/haunted I hope to see you there!

So my museum is pretty small, I am the only full time employee and we rely on our advisory board to volunteer to lead tours, stamp hands at events and pass out flyers.

Apparently a decade ago, we had lots of people volunteer but that population has aged out. I set up a page on idealist and that has gotten scattered interest but I need more people so we don't have to ask the same people all the time.

All the board members have exhausted their social networks. We have approached senior centers and have flyers there but it hasn't yielded any interest.

I'm open to ideas and non monetary enticements.

Thanks!

I work in a small local history museum. This fall, we will be running an oktoberfest fundraiser. I have a lot of contacts at local breweries that I am sure will participate as well as a couple of food truck people. Obviously we will ask the vendors to help promote the event but I'm not sure how else to go about attracting as many people as possible. We have no advertising budget, I am the only non volunteer employee of the museum so we don't have a ton of cash.

I have just created our social media accounts (like literally a week ago), I am doing everything I can to try and get those up and running but IDK that we have the follower base to attract that many people. In my experience, local businesses are not jazzed about letting me put up flyers because they don't want to share their Saturday business. I will be putting flyers up in municipal places like the rec center, libraries, county parks boards etc.

We do have community circular type things but they have refused to promote museum fundraisers in the past (I don't know why, I have only been working here for about a month.) We do live in a large metro area so it can be difficult to get the news to engage with us.

We will promote the event to our membership list but it is mostly elderly, ancient people. The museum has been around for a while but our visitor base is dying out rather than growing.

Are there other resources out there I am overlooking? What else can I do to promote this event?