Worcester Historical Museum

Collections - the museum's collection of more than 30,000 physical objects expanded during the year to include: pride banners from the 2012 and 2018 marches, 2024 north high school basketball uniform and signed basketball,royal worcester belt cement, whittall-anglo persian wilton rug, and miscellaneous artifacts/products from local companies such as coghlin, flexcon, and saint-gobain for inclusion in the re-installed fuller gallery planned for january 2025

Library - the museum's library and archive continued to grow in content and expand relative to access, all while addressing an ever-increasing almost daily requests for student project assistance, inquires from scholarly researchers, and photograph and other illustration support for local governmental projects, commercial enterprises (restaurant walls and corporate office, as examples). Sixty-three library volunteers offered 2,585 hours of work, 287 email requests were received, 189 in-person research visitors cam to the library and an additional 137 inquiries were received via telephone. New collections include 5000 telegram & gazette microlfilm reels, martha esty michie letters, eddie mekka memorabilia, and various advertisements and other publications from local businesses/industries to enhance interpretation/documentation for the upcoming major re-interpretation of the fuller gallery of industrial history.

On-site visitors totaled 8,860 with an additional 1,813 from in-community projects/presentations. Social media and digital impacts: 11,073 unique facebook followers, 5057 instagram followers, 113,393 website pages views, and 88,793 unique website visitors. Every public school 5th grader visited during the year to participate in a two-hour culture leap-funded project, as well as visits to exhibits and the library from other public school and local college groups.