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Readers of a national weekly news magazine voted the Whitney Western Art Museum in Cody the best museum in the country.
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Each summer, the Dubois Museum puts on six educational outings to different local landmarks and scenic stops. The adventure treks help visitors and locals alike learn about the ecology, geology, past and present of the area.
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The original sandstone and limestone structure was constructed in 1909 of material quarried locally and served as one of several Carnegie libraries constructed in Wyoming. It comes as the museum was honored by the Institute of Museum and Library Science as the recipient of a 2023 National Medal for Museum and Library Service, the nation’s highest honor given to museums and libraries that make exceptional contributions to their communities.
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The Heart Mountain Interpretive Center has a new exhibit focusing on the parallels between the Japanese-American incarceration in the United States and the Holocaust.Titled “Parallel Barbed Wire”, the exhibit tells the story of two men – Heart Mountain incarceree Clarence Matsumura and Holocaust survivor Solly Ganor.
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“Regardless of how these things were collected, oftentimes they were collected without the deep cultural knowledge that comes with an object,” said the museum’s curator of ethnography, Alexandra Greenwald.
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The Peabody Museum at Harvard University has a collection of hair samples taken from Indigenous people. Much of the collection is from Indigenous children who were forced to attend Indian boarding schools. The collection has samples from both Arapaho and Shoshone peoples.
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"Dry No More: The Repeal of Prohibition" will be presented by Lucas Fralick, a member of the museum's board and program coordinator for the Wyoming Humanities Council. Discussion will focus on Prohibition in Campbell County and Wyoming more generally during the period when alcohol was outlawed nationwide during the 1920s and early 30s.
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The National Museum of Military Vehicles will have its long awaited Grad Opening on May 28, just outside of Dubois. Dan Starks is the museum's founder and chairman. He joined Wyoming Public Radio's Bob Beck to describe the museum and why it's worth your time.
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The special exhibition grapples with the idea of Yellowstone through the lens of people who have used, loved, lived and migrated through the park.
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An Ohio history museum is reimbursing the Nez Perce Tribe after forcing it to pay for a collection of its own artifacts more than two decades ago.