Topic: The History of Silver City

Bart Roselli brings expertise in management, educational programs, exhibition and collections development, fundraising, community building and other aspects of museum work, serving as the Director of the Silver City Museum since 2018.  He began his career more than 30 years ago in a recreated 19th Century village museum in his hometown of Middletown located in the Hudson Valley of New York State.  He studied museum education and management at Bank Street College of Education in New York City and at the Getty Institute of Museum Management in Berkeley, California.  He has applied his trade in museums of history, art, natural history, science and even a zoo. He has served on state, regional, and national museum associations and on boards of other community non-profits and business associations. 

Roselli serves as Vice President of the Grant County Prospectors and President of the Grant County Silver City Chamber of Commerce.  He has served as the president of the Silver City Rotary Club, secretary for the Grant County Silver City Chamber of Commerce, Executive Committee of the Southwest Word Fiesta. He also serves as a member of the Silver City Historic District Review Commission, Steering Committee member of the Grant County Give Grandly Coalition and plays banjo in the local band the Big Ditch Crickets.  He and his wife Gail make their home in an historic adobe on Chihuahua Hill in Silver City, New Mexico. 

The Rotary Club will meet in the conference room of Gila Regional Medical Center. Visitors should enter through the main entrance. There is a brief "meet and greet", and then the speaker has the floor. The club welcomes members of the public to the meetings. Lunch is available in the hospital cafeteria. Guests are advised to arrive in the cafeteria well before noon.

Rotary is an organization of business and professional persons united worldwide to provide humanitarian service, encourage high ethical standards in all vocations, and help build goodwill and peace in the world. Since its founding in 1923, the Silver City Rotary Club has provided support and service to numerous non-profit organizations and civic causes in Silver City and Grant County as well as supporting and participating in humanitarian projects sponsored by Rotary International.