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Past Exhibits
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Baseball & Monroe County
View images of the baseball memorabilia from a past exhibit.
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Museum Refurbishment
While not exactly a new exhibit, a brand new 2015 paint job and color scheme was completed for the museum.
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Fashions & Firearms
Our Fashions and Firearms exhibit highlighted the 1940s, along with the Detroit Historical Society's WWII Propaganda poster exhibit.
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Living Museum School Event
Our 2015 museum-hosted "Living Museum" school events were well attended!
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Lone Wolverine
Michigan's "Lone Wolverine" display occurred during the month of May 2014.
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Grandmother's Attic
The well-used "Grandmother's Attic" display was retired after more than a decade of use. It housed everything from rarely seen artifacts to World War II and Civil War exhibits, plus "Aunt Bett" Elizabeth McWebb's collection.
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Civil War Sesquicentennial
View some past exhibited Civil War Sesquicentennial displays.
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Maple Syrup Day
Maple trees have been tapped early in the spring (or late winter!) at the Country Store site, 2014. You don't need to have sugar maples, and materials are inexpensive- a drill with 7/16 bit, some pails, kettles or pots, clean jars for storage - the cost is for the energy used to boil the sap into syrup (hours!).
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Fruit Canning
The sparkling glass shelves of our lighted display cases were the setting for showcasing a variety of glass, canning (fruit) jars.
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Bronco Banyon McKart
Bronco Banyon McKart is a professional boxer from Monroe County.
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Remember the Ladies
In 2008 the museum received the second of 2 grants to reproduce 1812-era women's clothing. An often "live" exhibit, it involved having the student and women seamstresses working on the project during museum open hours in the back gallery.
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Lace on Exhibit
A special lace and sewing exhibit opened in 2008 with the support of lace maker and staff person Pat Griem, who loaned several examples and tools such as bobbins and finished pieces.
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MAECO Indy Car Exhibit
The Museum hosted an unusual display for the summer of 2007- an authentic Indy 500 race car and associated artifacts.
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Baskets, Baskets, Baskets
Another special exhibit of Fall 2007 was a large number of the museum's array of woven baskets - wicker, rattan, grass, fancy, utilitarian, and more!