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-===== Rebranding rural communities =====+{{: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>
  
-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&}}+<fs x-small>MAY 11, 2019<wrap indent> | </wrap><wrap indent> 2 MIN READ</wrap></fs>
  
-<WRAP tip 90%> <wrap em>COMMENT & SHARE</wrap>\\ +====== Peters Auctioning Off Canadian Trek Museum Holdings ======
-<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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- {{tag>Propworx Trekcetera props auction}}+**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.
  
 +===== Auction =====
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 +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.
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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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 +===== Rebranding rural communities =====
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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 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}}