Wayne County Historical Society will reopen for the 2024 season Saturday with five new exhibits. Tours of the eight-building campus will be available every Saturday at 1 p.m. and 2:30 p.m. Admission is $5 for adults and free for those under 18. The society is located at 546 E. Bowman St., Wooster. The parking lot […]
For the first time in the Detroit Historical Museum’s nearly 100-year history, a father and a son are being featured in two separate but adjacent exhibits. Emmanuel Smith is one out of 34 Black entrepreneurs featured in the museum’s “The Hustle: Detroit’s Unsung Entrepreneurs” exhibit, while his 10-year-old son, Eleazar-Yisrael Smith, is one of 82 […]
KINGSPORT, Tenn. (WJHL) — On Monday, the Dobyns-Bennett High School Mock Trial Team hosted a free Mock Trial Exhibition Community Performance at the former Kingsport City Hall building. A mock trial is a simulation that schools use to teach students the processes of courtroom trials, and Dobyns-Bennett students worked a criminal case during the event. […]
SPRINGFIELD, Ill. (WCIA) – When you walk inside the Illinois State Museum, you can see all kinds of exhibits connected to the state. But some are covered up with a note reading, “Objects are removed from viewing for Tribal Consultation.” It’s all because of changes to the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA), […]
The American Museum of Natural History in New York City will close two of its exhibition halls that showcase “severely outdated” representations of Native Americans, the museum’s president, Sean Decatur, wrote today in an internal email to staff. The announcement of the exhibit closures on Saturday, Jan. 27 was in direct response to updates in […]