The History Center in downtown Fort Wayne has asked for the public’s input on a major renovation of the first-floor permanent exhibition galleries.

This phase is expected to cost $575,000 and follows about $4 million of capital projects, Todd Maxwell Pelfrey, executive director of the center, said Wednesday in an email.

“The History Center not only preserves and interprets the shared narrative of those who formed the community, but more importantly exists in service to the collective memory of its peoples,” he said. “In that sense, public input is a crucial element in the fashioning of these exhibition galleries so that residents may help shape and also see themselves in the histories presented through their home museum.”

The History Center has an idea of what it would like to do with t

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