4729 Walnut Road, Buckeye Lake, Ohio 43008.
The Greater Buckeye Lake Historical Society
Museum Closing
Please read the announcement below.
J-me@buckeyelakehistory.org
philipvaughn4@gmail.com
(site manager)
To the wonderful members of the Buckeye Lake Museum:
Devoted Members, Faithful Volunteers and Friends, it is bittersweet to inform you that the Buckeye Lake Historical Society will be permanently closing effective February 28th, 2025. We sincerely appreciate your support for the past 26 years and the memories that we shared together.
The main reason we are closing is the active Volunteers and funding decreasing. We are completely funded by you the members, fundraisers, the tour boat and estate gifts left to the museum. Two thirds of US museums are underfunded, with most needing at least 10% more funding to stabilize. Even the Louvre in Paris has been scrambling for funds for years.
Over the 26 years the Buckeye Lake Museum has brought thousands of tourists to the Buckeye Lake area. We have organized numerous island tours, Cranberry bog tours and volunteer dinners and kept the museum doors open. Throughout the years the Museum has received very little support from the Buckeye Lake Village Administration, The Buckeye Lake Chamber of Commerce or Licking County Convention Bureau to name a few.
After much consideration, The Buckeye Lake Historical Society Board voted to close the museum at the February Board meeting. Currently the Board is following legal guidelines for the closing of a 501C3 non-profit.
There currently is a museum committee working to determine how to address the museum artifacts. If possible, they will be returned to the original donor or relocated to other museums in the Buckeye Lake region.
While we are working through this process, I highly recommend that you only follow the Museum website and Facebook posts. Do not listen to ideal gossip or untruths about the closing.
Please feel free to contact me by email, or any of the museum board members if you have any questions or concerns.
www.buckeyelakehistory.org
Thank you so much for your continued support.
Warmly, J-me
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Take a Look Back
Your Donations Make the Buckeye
Lake Historical Society Possible.
In 2018 the Museum followed the idea of a Night Picnic at the Buckeye Lake Historical Museum. Themes followed the methods used in the picnics of the 50’s and 60’s. The menu was a Fish Fry and pretended to be at another time and place, the Buckeye Lake Amusement Park.
As of January 2019 there have been 55,212 visitors to the museum, since our opening day in 1998. Come visit the Rocket Ship, play Skee Ball or look over thousands of items from the early to mid 1900's. Tuesday-Sunday 1 to 4, Closed Mondays.
Our Society was founded at Buckeye Lake, Ohio in 1995 and the museum opened in 1998. Please stop in and view our huge collection of Buckeye Lake Park memorabilia. Our group covers Perry, Licking and Fairfield counties including the communities of Hebron, Millersport and Thornville, along with Buckeye Lake.