Daly House ramping up for pandemic recovery
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Having recently received a $11,000 grant from the Manitoba government, Brandon’s Daly House Museum will be using that money to hire a second paid employee.
Daly House Museum curator Eileen Trott told the Sun the new marketing and events co-ordinator will be responsible for promoting the non-profit organization’s various programming, which is desperately needed after enduring two years of the COVID-19 pandemic.
“The pandemic’s been hard on everybody and we were shut down quite a bit during it,” Trott said on Friday. “And we want to let our audiences in Brandon and Westman know what we have at the museum and what we have to offer.”
While no one has been hired to fill this marketing and events co-ordinator position yet, Trott said whomever gets the job will have their hands full for the upcoming spring and summer season.
To help celebrate Daly House’s 140th anniversary, Trott revealed she is preparing to open a new exhibit in the museum’s garden on July 21 and showcase 40 landscape paintings of Brandon heritage buildings from artist Weiming Zhao starting on April 9. This showcase from Zhao is titled “Brandon Heritage en Plein Air.”
“This is our first two new exhibits in two years,” she said. “It’s very nice to be able to plan for something again and have people come back.”
On a personal level, Trott is also happy that this funding came through for a second paid staff member, since she’s served as the museum’s sole employee for the last 20 years.
“We’ve also had summer interns and volunteers. We wouldn’t be here without our volunteers,” she said. “But it will be a pleasant change.”
This $11,000 grant was provided through the province’s new Community Museum Project Support program, which set aside $240,000 for 29 different non-profit community museums in Manitoba to help advance reconciliation, diversity and COVID-19 recovery.
At least six other museums in the Westman region received this funding, including:
• Beautiful Plains Museum, Neepawa ($3,600)
• Badger Creek Museum, Cartwright ($5,000)
• Fort Dauphin Museum ($6,287)
• J.A.V. Victor David Museum, Killarney ($8,000)
• Prairie Mountain Regional Museums Collection Inc., Shoal Lake ($7,000)
• Gilbert Plains Heritage Committee ($8,000)
“Museums help preserve and promote Manitoba’s diverse heritage, culture and identity,” Heritage Minister Andrew Smith said in a Wednesday news release.
“This new grant will help support the economic recovery of these important community institutions and help fulfil our government’s commitment to advance reconciliation and build a more inclusive and prosperous future for all Manitobans.”
The Daly House was originally built in 1882 and served as the home of two prominent families — the Dalys and the Coldwells.
After becoming a children’s shelter for several decades, the building was eventually converted into a museum in 1976 to collect, preserve and promote the history of the city of Brandon.
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