By NICK GOSNELL
Hutch Post
HUTCHINSON, Kan. — The Reno County Museum is putting more things online to stay connected with those interested in the county's history.
"The museum used to have a quarterly magazine called Legacy," said curator David Reed. "They published a little over a hundred issues over about 20 years and we've managed to upload all of them to our website and they're free to look at. We're working on a couple of other programs on our website. We're going to start profiling some Reno County residents that have helped shape local history."
If you download the PocketSights app on your phone, there are special tours for you.
"It's got a historic tour of downtown Hutchinson," Reed said. "The Arts and Humanities Council also created a tour on there and we're planning on creating at least two more tours so that people can still get out in the community, still experience history and still keep their distances."
Making a museum digitally active is a challenge, but its one they are rising to.
"It's a different set of skills," Reed said. "I have to do my job and then I have to translate it into the digital world, which is sometimes a little bit more difficult. You have to adapt what you're trying to teach people. In the end, you're conveying the same message which is the history of Reno County."
The profiles planned will be four to five minute Youtube videos that will allow to spend just a little time and learn a lot about Reno County history.