Portraits From the Museum Collection

The urge to create or possess a visual representation of a specific person – a portrait - is present throughout history. Portraits are created for…

The Newest in the Thrift Finds Series

Since 1939, the Historical Museum has been actively collecting and preserving artifacts central to telling our local history’s stories. These artifacts are acquired in a…

Being Modern

This exhibition follows (and is directly patterned after) the Museum’s previous exhibit, Art Deco on the Plains. It takes the timeline forward to explore modern…

Why History Museums Collect Art

Art is not only for Art Museums. If a picture is worth a thousand words, it stands to reason that art can tell us a…