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A year to Bthrough your memberships deliver upgrades at many of its new Office of Programs & Outreach,
ecause of your essential support
12 historic sites and museums.
credits supporters like you.
“We simply could not extend
remember, and additional gifts, the Wisconsin They’re a big reason why more than the Society into new communities
250,000 people visited sites and nearly
Historical Society was able to celebrate
a memorable 2017 fiscal year.
and share our collections with
500,000 were served by the Society
because members, the Society now has a all across Wisconsin. Add 2.6 million new audiences without help
Thanks to a record 3,312 new
from generous individuals and
visits to our website and more than
total of 12,388, the highest in its
1,000 consultations with government
organizations,” he said. “It’s only
of you! 171-year history. Your combined and other organizations, and you’ve possible because people step up,
got a Society with far-reaching effect.
people who understand how history
donations of $4.9 million to the
Wisconsin Historical Foundation —
Many examples of these initiatives
of self. Without them, we’re trying to
the most since 2010 — have allowed and successes are included in the can transform a young person’s sense
the Society to launch exciting new following pages. make a difference in the world with
initiatives in programming, and Michael Edmonds, director of the one hand tied behind our back.”

Projected jobs
created by
,
construction 30 487
Wisconsin Historical projects approved Visitors to the Wisconsin Historical
by the Historic
Society Press 780 Preservation Office Museum on guided tours
Number of Number of Society

books sold by consultations
the Society Press with local history
affiliates
Number of history textbooks Patrons served by the
14% MORE THAN FY16
sold by the Society Press Library & Archives
attendance at the
,
491695 Society’s 12 historic
sites and museums
313 Total audience served
,
Projects approved (non-website) by the Society 71362 Total attendance at the
Wisconsin Historical Museum
K-12 STUDENTS Preservation Office that 2 619 848
by the Historic
,
,
qualify for tax credits School tour groups visiting the spread out over 60 counties,
SERVED BY 960 from which schools visited the
SOCIETY PROGRAMS Society website sessions Wisconsin Historical Museum
Wisconsin Historical Museum
,
103 000 Number of State-based corporate
Number of historic historic Wisconsin reports added to
newspaper pages
the Society’s critical
Projected value of potential construction projects photographs digitized (dating to 1847) to topics collections
approved by the Historic Preservation Office for wisconsinhistory.org be digitized by 2019
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