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Appendices Appendix A: LCSC Project Timeline LCSC Timeline: Appendix B: APA Display Study LCSC Visitor Experience Report Prepared for the City of Lloydminster | Final Issue • July 11, 2019 Table of Contents 1 Project Description . 1 2 Summary of Activity . 2. 2.1 Review of Previous Reports & Documentation. 2 2.2 Site Tour. 2 2.3 Visitor Experience Visioning Workshop. 4 3 Situational Analysis + Recommendations . 6 3.1 Collections . .6 3.2 Building Functions . .7 3.3 Site . 8 3.4 Messages. 8 4 Vision . 9 . 4.1 Vision Statement . .9 4.2 Interpretive Goals. 9 4.3 Proposed Interpretive Approach: A Flexible Permanent Exhibit Space. 10 4.4 Costing the Vision . 14 5 Conclusions and Next Steps . 16 . 5.1 Stakeholder Engagement. 16 5.2 Interpretive Planning. 16 5.3 Design and Fabrication. 17 5.4 Optional Steps. 17 1 Project Description AldrichPears Associates Ltd. is part of a consultant team providing integrated studies for the Lloydminster Cultural and Science Centre (LCSC). The Centre is looking for recommendations for how to move forward with renewal in a manner that is attainable and meaningful to citizens of Lloydminster. This document is the Display Study Working Paper, which will be reviewed along with the Spatial and Infrastructure Needs Studies to inform the development of conceptual options for a renewed LCSC. The Display Study reviews and analyzes existing interpretive resources and existing experiences, incorporates information gathered from a site tour and visitor experience workshop, and provides sustainable recommendations for the LCSC based on interpretive best practices. 1 2 Summary of Activity 2.1 REVIEW OF PREVIOUS 2.2 SITE TOUR REPORTS & DOCUMENTATION The team spent the morning of May 8 onsite walked through the building currently housing To date, the interpretive team has reviewed touring the foyer, gift shop, archives, permanent the artifact collection, and learned about the previous concept reports which made and temporary exhibit areas, back of house storage cataloguing, storage and accessioning (including recommendations for the renewal of the LCSC. and programming areas. We also toured the re-accessioning and de-accessioning) process. These reports include: grounds, saw the exteriors of the heritage buildings, • Lloydminster Cultural & Science Centre Redevelopment Plan, S2, 2014 • Barr Colony Business Plan, Lord, 2013 • Interpretive Plan, Lord, 2012 • BCHCC Phase 2 Report, Lord, 2011 • BCHCC Phase 1 Report, Lord, 2011 We also reviewed summaries of current activities and reviewed documentation of artifact collections. 2 LCSC Visitor Experience Report 3 2.3 VISITOR EXPERIENCE VISIONING 2 .3 .1 Key Workshop Results WORKSHOP Notes from the complete workshop are provided The team facilitated a visioning workshop on the in an addendum to this report. A summary of the afternoon of May 8. A group of 20 stakeholders key results that came out of the workshop are as reviewed best practices of interpretation, and were follows: presented with a study of cultural and interpretive • There is a desire to do something beyond centres from communities of comparable size to a band-aid solution, which modernizes Lloydminster. These centres tell the unique story of the space, creates a sense of belonging the community to visitors and serve as a point of for Lloydminster residents, and provides pride for residents. The workshop continued with a mix of arts, programming and a SWOT analysis, brainstorming on the aspects interpreting Lloydminster’s history. of Lloydminster’s story, and answering the focus • A renewal plan must be financially feasible; the question: city will need to fund the majority of the costs. • The stories told need to cover five important Imagine you walk into the redeveloped topics: Indigenous peoples, Barr Colonists, history of rural life, oil and gas, and the arts. LCSC on opening day. What do you see, hear, touch, do while you are there? • There is a desire for the LCSC to be a community destination for special events for adults as well as a place for families to visit with something to attract visitors of all ages. Today’s goals • Identify key goals of the visitor experience at LCSC • Identify Lloydminster’s story • Envision story driven visitor experience 4 LCSC Visitor Experience Report 5 3 Situational Analysis + Recommendations Based on our tours of the site and buildings, the 3 1. 1. Recommendations Regarding heritage collections, any space allotted visitor experience workshop, our understanding The Fuchs specimens are not appropriate as a to the display of artifacts at the LCSC should of museum and interpretive centre best practices natural history exhibit. Their value lies in the fact prioritize heritage collections currently in and our conversations with staff and stakeholders, that they are part of the collective memory of storage and the stories that are tied to them. we have conducted the following analysis of children in Lloydminster for the last 60 or more To summarize: collections, building and site. years. They have value as an historical point of 1. Any space allotted to the display of artifacts reference as a common community experience. 3.1 COLLECTIONS at the LCSC should prioritize the historical To that end, if there are a few specimens that are collections and stories tied to those collections. in good enough repair to be saved and put on Collections currently on display in the LCSC are 2. The Imhoff and Fuchs collections are only for the most part the Fuchs and Imhoff collections. display in a renewed space, there is opportunity in keeping them (the poker playing bunnies, for relevant as historical reference points In the case of the Fuchs collection, specimens are related to these founding families and the extremely aged and in many cases beyond repair. example). However, if they are not in good enough repair to move and re-display, the same experience collective memory of the community. The OTS Gallery interprets the story of oil and could be repeated using photographs as part of a 3. If any Imhoff or Fuchs collections are to be gas. This is a key piece of Lloydminster’s history commemorative sign. kept to represent this historic reference point, and scientific innovation; while the story definitely The Imhoff collection is similar in that in they should be displayed in the context of the needs to be told, the exhibits are now 20 years old history of Lloydminster and interpreted as such. and very dated. its entirety it does not represent the story of Lloydminster. One or two individual paintings 4. While much of the OTS exhibit is dated and Historical collections relating to the history and do represent one of the founding families of the needs updating, there is an opportunity to culture of Lloydminster are currently in storage. town, with the inclusion of the story that many repurpose exhibit cases in a renewed case. The historical collection also includes large of Imhoff’s paintings can be found in churches 5. Historical artifacts (including vehicles scale and iconic artifacts including vehicles and across the northern prairies in Saskatchewan and buildings. and buildings) can be used as icons North Dakota. Maintenance and display of the that provide an entry point into stories entire collection does not add to the experience or about Lloydminster and its citizens. understanding of Lloydminster’s heritage. 6. Iconic artifacts that are currently outdoors As OTS representative Adam Waterman said in our (i.e., ESSO sign) could be very dramatic interview with him, “The industry is only 70 years and impactful if brought indoors as old, so the last 20 years represents a significant part part as the interpretive experience. of the story.” Any new interpretive displays should include the story of oil and gas, but the current exhibits in the OTS Gallery as they stand have reached the end of their useful life. 6 LCSC Visitor Experience Report 3.2 BUILDING FUNCTIONS EXPERIENCES & STORIES COMPONENT PRELIMINARY SPACE DESCRIPTION The LCSC building as it exists now is not ideal (from workshop) from an interpretive standpoint. If the spaces Programming Areas Bigger space for programming • Flexible seating currently devoted to the Imhoff and Fuchs • Space for large groups to congregate for classes collections were cleared for display of historical Local Arts • Storage for program supplies, tools, materials artifacts and telling Lloydminster’s story, this would • Wet/dusty space for kilns, pottery preparation be an improvement; however, changing humidity Gathering spaces Space for community events • Snack bar/coffee bar levels, risk of flooding lack of preparation and • Seating areas storage space would remain an issue. Renewed Exhibits Lloydminster: Past, Present and Modern, interactive exhibits 3 2. 1. Recommendations Future • Multisensory (sound, sights, smells, things to touch) • Diverse media (graphics, AV, digital, hands-on, Specific building recommendations will be Kids/Education mechanical) for diverse audiences and age groups included in the Spatial and Infrastructure Needs • Space for iconic artifacts (vehicles, ESSO sign) Studies. During our tours, interviews with staff and Temporary Exhibit space Traveling and Temporary Exhibits • Open, light- and climate-controlled (strive for the the visitor experience workshop, specific required highest environmental controls possible to meet building functions, relating to services and traveling exhibit requirements) space that can programming, were identified. The components accommodate traveling exhibits are listed here, with connections to