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-{{: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>+===== Rebranding rural communities =====
  
-<fs x-small>MAY 11, 2019<wrap indent> | </wrap><wrap indent> 2 MIN READ</wrap></fs>+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&}}
  
-====== Peters Auctioning Off Canadian Trek Museum Holdings ======+<WRAP tip 90%> <wrap em>COMMENT & SHARE</wrap>\\ 
 +<wrap lo>Discuss this article in [[face>groups/axamonitor/permalink/630076330840551?sfns=mo|AxaMonitor's Facebook group]] or share on:</wrap>~~socialite~~ </WRAP>
  
-**//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.+ {{tag>Propworx Trekcetera props auction}}
  
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-Peters told //Axanar: Confidential// viewers May 6 he was heading to Canada to oversee the auction on the weekend of May 11-12, 2019. 
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-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. 
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-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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-<WRAP tip 90%> 
-<wrap em>COMMENT & SHARE</wrap> \\ 
-<wrap lo>Discuss this article in [[face>groups/axamonitor/permalink/630076330840551?sfns=mo|AxaMonitor's Facebook group]] or share on:</wrap>~~socialite~~ 
-</WRAP> 
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-**Keywords** {{tag>Propworx Trekcetera props auction}}