Time
90–150 minutes
Volume 1 and Preservation Center · 6 focused sessions
Preserve a Venue Story
Document the building, people, photographs, stories, and rights before the record disappears.
A documented collection plan, interview priorities, rights record, and preservation workflow
Who it is for
Venue families, historians, preservation groups, and volunteers
Have this ready
Known names, dates, photographs, documents, and permission routes
1
Understand the stewardship responsibility
Begin with the relationship between preservation, identity, trust, and continued use.
2
Build the venue timeline
Record dates, owners, renovations, traditions, performers, and community turning points.
3
Capture oral histories
Prepare interviews that preserve specific memories, names, places, and context.
4
Inventory photographs and documents
Create a usable record before scanning, moving, or sharing the collection.
5
Record rights and consent
Document what may be stored, quoted, displayed, and published.
6
Protect the digital collection
Set file names, copies, storage locations, and review responsibilities.
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