Historians Susan Schoelwer and Kelly Nolin believe they have found the flag that Lincoln was holding onto at the time of his assassination in 1865.
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The local historical society, founded in 1961, opened the Elmore County Museum in a vacated Carnegie Library building in 1977. Built in 1908, the museum building is listed on the National Register of Historical Places. Among the artifacts displayed inside are mining, agriculture, and railroad implements. The museum also focuses on the cultural heritage of the community, including Basque, Chinese, and Native American legacies.
The museum offers exhibits.
Visitors to the Museum can share in the journey of the Great Lakes Indian tribes who were forced to emigrate to Kansas in the 1800s, adapting their traditional Woodlands cultures to the rolling prairie landscape. At the Museum, once a Presbyterian mission built in 1845 to educate Iowa and Sac and Fox children, you will find quillwork, baskets, and other artwork of present-day descendants of emigrant tribes. Through the interactive exhibits, Native Americans tell stories in their own words.
The site offers exhibits, tours, and educational and recreational programs.
What happens when America's largest museum complex gets on board perhaps the greatest communications revolution? During a two-day interactive gathering, January 2324, 2009, 30 activists in the digital world joined Smithsonian curators and other museum specialists to explore the intersection of Web 2.0 technologies and the Smithsonian's 19 museums and National Zoo.
The event, Smithsonian 2.0: A Gathering to Re-Imagine the Smithsonian in the Digital Age, addressed a primary question—how to make the vast resources of the Smithsonian more digitally accessible. Concurrently, experts discussed how Web 2.0 technologies influence the dissemination and interpretation of museum collections and how this dissemination affects the functions of historians and curators.
As the description of the gathering asks,
How does the Smithsonian effectively serve its growing virtual visitors? How does it deliver to those visitors the 137 million artifacts, works of art, and scientific specimens in its collections along with the expertise that goes with them? How does it do so in an engaging, educational manner that evokes the power and inspiration of its finest exhibitions and presentations?
The Smithsonian's target audience in the digital age is the teenage through college demographic, most of whom will largely experience and use the collections and educational resources online.
Michael Edson, Director, Web and New Media Strategy, at the Smithsonian, encourages a vision of a Smithsonian Commons, a concept rooted in the "democratization of knowledge and innovation" and broadly defined as a "set of resources maintained in the public sphere for the use and benefit of everyone." And what are the benefits to a museum? Edson points out that ideas don't stand alone, but are built on the ideas of others. A commons, perhaps much like the collaborative classroom, provides access to the raw materials of innovation and encourages networking and creativity in their use. (Edson's PowerPoint presentation is online on Slideshare with an accompanying full-text version).
Catch up and contribute to the discussion which continues on the Smithsonian 2.0 blog and, among others, currently includes ideas from Lee Rainie, Director, Pew Internet & American Life Project, Bruce Wyman, Director of Technology, Denver Art Museum, and other responses and referrals to papers and resources from public historians in the Smithsonian and other museum venues.
Photos from the conference reside on Flickr, and discussion also continues on the Facebook group, Smithsonian 2.0. The Washington Post reported the event.
(Smithsonian resources for educators link from the conference website as well.)
Located in the historic Ginocchio Hotel in the Historical Ginocchio District, the county's museum houses an extensive collection of Caddo Indian artifacts; antique toys; Civil War memorabilia; and mementos from famous citizens of Harrison County, including Lady Bird Johnson, George Foreman,, Bill Moyers, Y.A. Tittle, and James Farmer. A "Hands On" history room contains activities for children of all ages, and the Research Library offers resources for genealogical research.
The museums offers exhibits and research library access.
The Society's mission is to protect and preserve the historical heritage of Lloyd; to support all individuals, groups or agencies that sustain this goal; and to educate and share this historical heritage with the citizens of the Town of Lloyd. It works to protect and preserve local historic sites and materials, educate residents and students on local history, create a museum of local history, preserve the area cemeteries and their history, publish articles of local historic interest, conduct tours of historic sites, record reminiscences of Lloyd citizens to preserve local history, and discover and document the community's past to enrich the town's future.
The Cudahy Historical Society's mission is to keep alive the history of Cudahy and to share it with all its residents, young and old. As owners of the city's 1893 Railroad Depot, the society uses the space to store and exhibit the artifacts and documents that tell the city's story.
The museum offers tours, exhibits, and historical meetings.
The Hunterdon County Historical Society's library has been in existence since the Society was founded in 1885. In 1963, through the bequest of the late Hiram E. Deats, over 3,000 items were added. These included his personal library and notes on the places and families of Hunterdon County. Today, the library consists of 5,000 printed volumes, manuscripts, newspapers, maps, broadsides, and photographs gathered and preserved since the Society was founded.
The Library is housed in the Doric House, an 1846 Greek Revival structure furnished in authentic Hunterdon antiques of the period.
The House offers tours by appointment and access to the Library.
The Franklin Heritage Museum presents the local history of Franklin, NJ via historical photographs and artifacts. The museum is housed within structures which once belonged to the Franklin Mine's New Jersey Zinc Company.
The museum offers exhibits.
The Museum has a limited number of bus scholarships available to help schools defray the costs of a museum field trip.