February 3, 2015
Sending an email miles away is a piece of cake in this day and age, but the written word experienced many radical changes and developments to get to this point. Over the course of five thousand years, changes in written language and how individuals wrote messages changed how human beings...
January 26, 2015
Diana Stanley is a Museum Volunteer studying abroad in Europe until June. She's writing as a Field Reporter while she travels. Follow our blog to receive her updates throughout the coming months. By Diana Stanley, Field Reporter The poet Robert Browning once said, “Everyone sooner or late comes round by...
January 22, 2015
Do you enjoy military or World War I history? This weekend is your last chance to see Dawn of the Great War: A WWI Centennial Commemoration. Museum staff will take the current exhibit off display on Wednesday, January 28 to make room for Transcribing History: Pictographs, Parchment, and the Printing Press. ...
December 19, 2014
Posted by Diana Stanley, Museum Volunteer and Customer Service Representative It was a day of gift giving in the Scipio house. Little Julia got a doll. Father gave Mother a pretty silver necklace. Wreaths with star shaped goodies hung on the walls and doors, just waiting for a child to...
December 15, 2014
Posted by Diana Stanley, Museum Volunteer and Customer Service Representative Some crimes are brutal, others are frivolous, and some are just audacious. One such crime was the 300 Million Yen Heist committed December 10, 1968. The heist reigned supreme in Japan for over forty years as the largest robbery ever...
December 3, 2014
Happy Holidays! To celebrate, we've planned a brand new Family Week at the Museum of World Treasures. When the cookies are eaten, the presents are opened, and your family is still in town, bring them to the Museum of World Treasures for a week of fun activities and a photo contest. Activities are scheduled...
November 26, 2014
Wind Up Dinosaurs Making Kit, $12.99. Features supplies to make 4 prehistoric cardboard creatures to assemble and race. Let your child's imagination run wild! Pirate hat, wooden ship model, or coloring book, starting at just $7. Civil War bullets, $4.90. These are dug up from civil war battlefields and...
November 26, 2014
This season, shop local and support a nonprofit by purchasing gifts from our Museum Store. Need some suggestions? Here are ten ideas, find more on our #ShopSmall Pinterest Board. Pick up a themed chess set and chessboard, featuring the Civil War, the crusades, the US Army and Navy, and more. Sets...
November 26, 2014
This season, shop local and support a nonprofit by purchasing gifts from our Museum Store. Need some suggestions? Here are ten ideas, find more on our #ShopSmall Pinterest Board. Marilyn in Fashion book, $30. While you're add it, why not pick up one of these Marilyn totes to give it in? Fifty years after...
November 25, 2014
Posted by Diana Stanley, Museum Volunteer and Customer Service Representative The waters of the world are a dangerous place and many ships and people have perished beneath them. Many believe history's most significant shipwreck was the Titanic, but almost a thousand years before the Titanic the famous White Ship set...