Posted on 04/28/2021 1:42:46 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Crews continue to restore the Carmel Mission Museum after the restoration project started in November 2020.
They're renovating and repairing the courtyard in front of the famous Basilica, which was restored back in 2013.
Stephanie Zelei, executive director of Carmel Mission Foundation, talked to KSBW about the work that's being done.
"Remedying the drainage issues that are affecting the foundation of the basilica... We'll be fixing the cracking and the resurfacing as it looked before," Zelei said.
On top of that, restoring the bathrooms, stabilizing the adobe structure and doubling the space size of the museum. Zelei says these changes will highlight the artifacts and make it safer for visitors.
"We have over 300,000 visitors a year that come to the Carmel Mission. There's 6,000 fourth-graders in Monterey County that study the mission system, and many of them have field trips to Carmel Mission, we certainly want the building safe."
The money for the $4 million project came from different sources. They're close to the full amount they need but they're still fundraising the rest.
Zelei says COVID-19 complicated some things but that they're thankful to be able to continue restoring the historic landmark and hope to finish the project by October 2021.
Just in time for its 250th anniversary.
Mission San Diego was restored about 80 years ago and celebrated its 250th anniversary in 2019. The place is beautiful.
Living in California we really enjoyed visiting the Missions whenever we traveled, they taught about them in school but that has been scrapped now. Santa Barbara and San Juan Batista are my favs.
Mission San Diego is a very active parish. All of the Sunday masses are standing room only. Most of the people attending Mass there do not live in the parish. They drive in from other parishes because they like the “old” look. Mission San Diego is very popular with Filipino people.
I e been to, if I remember correctly, 11 or 12 missions. I went to school at Santa Clara, home of the mission of the same name. So here’s what we’re doing: we’re spending money to preserve these treasures. We ship schoolchildren in to see them. Then, back in their classrooms, we teach them that the missionaries were genocidals monsters
San Juan Batista and Carmel are still parishes.
“Genocidal Missionaries”
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Okay,
Im rereading it.
Again.
Yup,
The spelling is good.
Did you happen to
Torch one recently?
My bad,
It’s the kids.
.
But one went up in Flames,
Ain’t sure which one.
Before CCP-19 I was there at least every other month
Drove by there after visiting the sheep over at Mission Ranch Hotel and wondered what the equipment was for...
My Masonic lodge is across the street from San Juan Bautista Mission.
I am surprised the wokesters haven’t bulldozed it to rubble.
Not my point. It’s not in the article, but the treatment of mission period in our schools is definitely not as sunny as this article. For Pete’s sake, my sons went to Catholic school, and their textbook slammed the mission period
The Schools are
at Fault for harmful
Indoctrination,
I miss read Your
Post,several times.
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San Juan Bautista - nice little town, life on top of the San Andreas fault line must be interesting.
I live 1/2 mile off san andreas
rock and roll!
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