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...
November 25, 2014
Black Friday, Small Business Saturday, Cyber Monday... Giving Tuesday. After the turkey is gone and the deals are over, please remember to give back to your community on Tuesday, Dec. 2, a national day of giving. On Tuesday, Dec. 2 we are asking the community for $5,000 to replace staff computers that are ten years...
November 24, 2014
Are you planning lots on online shopping this week? New this year, Amazon has launched AmazonSmile as a simple and automatic way for you to support your favorite charitable organization, including the Museum of World Treasures. Donate every time you shop, at no cost to you. When you shop at smile.amazon.com, you’ll find...
November 19, 2014
“This being, cut off from the world without leaving any discoverable trace, and whose disappearance apparently caused no void--this captive, distinguished among captives by the unexampled nature of his punishment, a prison within a prison, as if the walls of a mere cell were not narrow enough, has come to...
November 3, 2014
Do you have family visiting for the holidays? Give them a day of fun at the Museum of World Treasures! The Museum is open seven days a week but will have special holiday hours as follows: Thanksgiving Day, closed; Christmas Eve, closing early at 3 p.m.; Christmas Day, closed. The Museum will...
October 31, 2014
Happy Halloween from the Museum of World Treasures! Stop in to visit Ivan and Clarence the Crusader on this spooky day. "Halloween’s origins date back to the ancient Celtic festival of Samhain (pronounced sow-in). The Celts, who lived 2,000 years ago in the area that is now Ireland, the...
October 30, 2014
We salute you! On Veterans Day, Tuesday, November 11 the Museum of World Treasures will offer free admission entry for all active military and veterans. Please bring a form of military ID or veterans benefits or organization card. Thank you for your service! The history of Veterans Day dates...