{{:trekcetera_closed.jpg}}<fs smaller>**HAPPIER DAYS** Alec Peters and Axanar supporters tried to help this Canadian museum stay in business but it ultimately failed and closed in December 2018. Here’s a CBC story about the museum.</fs> <fs x-small>//Image/Canadian Broadcasting Corp.//</fs>

<fs x-small>MAY 11, 2019<wrap indent> | </wrap><wrap indent> 2 MIN READ</wrap></fs>

====== Peters Auctioning Off Canadian Trek Museum Holdings ======

**//Despite Axanar’s help, Trekcetera closes, its holdings for sale … by Axanar's Peters// **

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**Auctioning museum holdings.** Axanar producer Alec Peters and his supporters led a successful crowdfunding effort to save the [[:trekcetera_museum|Trekcetera Museum]] in Canada, only to see the place [[https://www.drumhellermail.com/news/31474-trekcetera-museum-closes|shut down]]. But Peters got to take advantage of the opportunity to auction off the museum’s holdings of memorabilia from Star Trek and other media.

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===== Auction =====

Peters told //Axanar: Confidential// viewers May 6 he was heading to Canada to oversee photographing and cataloging the museum's holdings on the weekend of May 11-12, 2019, to prepare them for auction.

<WRAP center 90%> <fs smaller>**//See also: [[trekcetera_museum|Questions Over Axanar-Backed Trek Museum Fundraiser]]//** </fs> </WRAP>

The museum tried to make a go of it by leaving its original home in Vulcan, Alberta, in favor of the larger nearby town, Drumheller. Despite its popularity — making it into Travel Advisor’s top 10 museums in Canada — the museum never brought in enough revenue to restructure its debt in order stay open.

===== Rebranding rural communities =====

Trekcetera was part of an effort by many rural communities in North America to shift from an agricultural economy to one benefitting from the more lucrative tourist industry. Here’s an [[https://www.academia.edu/33538566/Rural_Rebranding_Star_Trek_Museums_and_Small-Town_Economies_in_Southern_Alberta|academic paper]] about the phenomenon, citing Trekcetera as an example. {{:axamonitor-ico.gif?nolink|}}

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