History center among businesses able to reopen Monday

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Along with the announcement of minnesota bars and restaurants reopening for indoor service on monday... indoor entertainment facilities like museums, bowling alleys and movie theaters can also reopen at 25% capacity.

Madelyne checked in with the history center of olmsted county to see how staff is feeling.

What are you finding out?/// brooke.

The first word the executive director said to me was excited.

He says he's ready to have people visiting the museum again and just be able to get out of the house.

It hasn't always been this positive though.

The history center temporarily closed its doors during the two shut downs... and that also includes the mayowood mansion.

Like many other businesses... the center lost hundreds of thousands of dollars in revenue because of the pandemic.

The executive director, wayne gannaway, tells me history is constantly happening and one day, there will be an exhibit in the history center about the year 2020.

He says the way we learn "we hopefully learned lessons from the flu pandemic from 1918 and hopefully, cross your fingers that our descendents will learn from us in 2020.

Because certainly, we could have probably improved on one or two things in 2020."

Gannaway tells me if anyone has any stories or experiences from the pandemic and would like to share it... they would love any and thank you madelyne.

While the center does have the green light to open on monday, it's