September 5, 2014
Posted by Diana Stanley, Museum Volunteer and Customer Service Representative “By and by Jane comes and tells me that she hears that above 300 houses have been burned down to-night by the fire we saw, and that it is now burning down all Fish-street, by London Bridge.” In September 1666,...
September 2, 2014
Please join the Museum on Thursday, September 11 for a National Day of Service and Remembrance. The Museum will host a day of activities to honor those who lost their lives due to the 9/11 tragedy. Veterans and active military personnel will visit with guests about 9/11 and other unfortunate...
August 19, 2014
Posted by Diana Stanley, Museum Volunteer and Customer Service Representative Venus was the mother of Rome. According to Roman myth, she gave birth to Aeneas, a hero of the Greek Trojan War. When Troy fell to the Greeks, Aeneas and his men escaped. After a series of adventures they settled...
August 5, 2014
We are happy to announce our newest exhibit, Creating the Crown: Developing Royal Dynasties, is now open! A team of volunteers and staff create all our new exhibits "in-house." Creating the Crown was no exception. Our Curator of Exhibits, Tim Howard, started with a design idea about a year ago. Interns and...
August 4, 2014
Posted by Diana Stanley, Museum Volunteer and Customer Service Representative “TO THE JAPANESE PEOPLE: America asks that you take immediate heed of what we say on this leaflet. We are in possession of the most destructive explosive ever devised by man. A single one of our newly developed atomic bombs...
August 1, 2014
Posted by Diana Stanley, Museum Volunteer and Customer Service Representative In Flanders fields the poppies blow Between the crosses, row on row, That mark our place; and in the sky The larks, still bravely singing, fly Scarce heard amid the guns below. We are the...
July 23, 2014
This series about Royalty is posted by Museum Intern Hannah Bothner. Join us as we celebrate the opening of our newest exhibit, "Creating the Crown: Developing Royal Dynasties." Not every European ruler was successful, and one of the most famous unsuccessful European rulers was King Louis XVI of France and his...
July 16, 2014
Posted by Diana Stanley, Museum Volunteer and Customer Service Representative On July 16th, 1439, King Henry VI of England was desperate to save his country against a force he was near powerless to stop. As the body count increased and the crisis worsened, his administration struck back by introducing a...
July 14, 2014
Posted by Diana Stanley, Museum Volunteer and Customer Service Representative Most ancient cultures have a “discovery point,” a time when an archaeologist finds something fantastic that sheds light on a distant time. For example, one of Egypt's discovery points was Howard Carter’s find of King Tut, and one of China's...
July 11, 2014
Posted by Diana Stanley, Museum Volunteer and Customer Service Representative What does one do after being the Vice President of the United States? Some go on to become President or go back to Congress, others write books, or retire. Calvin Coolidge’s VP Charles Dawes wrote a popular song and...