By Jess • August 27, 2011 • News • Comment
The board, staff, and volunteers at Andrew County Museum want to thank the people of Andrew County for helping us make “Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Times, A Man for All Times” a success during its stop at Andrew County Museum. We enjoyed seeing many new faces and plenty of long-time friends during the three weeks the exhibit was open. We know the word was getting around the county that this exhibit was worth rearranging your schedule to see!
We hope you’ll also make time to visit us throughout the year and mark your calendars now for the Winter Event on December 3, 2011 and “The Way We Worked,” an exhibit presented by the Smithsonian Institution and the Missouri Humanities Council, between May 5 and June 2, 2012!
By Jess • August 12, 2011 • Press Releases • Comment
On August 10, 2011, Jesse Murphy of the Savannah Reporter wrote about his recent visit to Andrew County Museum and all of the exciting programs we have going on in conjunction with our temporary exhibit Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Times, A Man for All Times:
The Andrew County Museum is the temporary home of a traveling Abraham Lincoln exhibit.
The 24 panels show Lincoln’s life, accomplishments, and legacy, as well as his influences on our society.
It is on loan from the Gilder Lechman Institute of American History and will be here until August 20.
This Saturday, Glenn Uminowicz, Director of the Andrew County Museum, will give a presentation with the exhibit on August 13.
His talk will include little known facts about Lincoln, including that he appointed many political rivals to his cabinet, and that the Emancipation Proclamation was not solely Lincoln’s idea.
Admission will be free the day of Uminowicz’s presentation, which is titled “Two Telling Stories: Abraham Lincoln, Frederick Douglas and the Civil War.”
Uminowicz said that exhibits like this are a big attraction, and since they have had it the museum has seen higher traffic.
“It’s like a cherry on top for a lot of people,” Uminowicz said. “The ones who haven’t been here in a long time come for the new things and are surprised at everything else they see.”
Along with the exhibit came teacher kits which the museum plans to give to schools in Andrew County for their libraries.
The kits include a DVD, CD’s, instructional booklets, activity ideas and much more.
The kits are in correlation with the museum’s new “traveling trunk” program. The trunks include many resources for teachers and are available on request.
The cost is free to all Andrew County schools, who also have priority if scheduling conflicts arise.
A trunk on local orchards is completed, and Uminowicz said that the trunk about the Civil War is near completion and will be ready before school starts.
On August 20th, museum curator Jess Rezac will host a “Family Fun Day.” It will be inspired by the life of Lincoln. Youngsters ages six to 11 can engage in activities such as making a paper stovepipe hat or a “Penny Pendant,” using a Lincoln-head penny and red, white and blue craft materials.
The Andrew County Museum is located at 202 East Duncan Drive in Savannah. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10AM to 4PM. Admission is $3.00 for adults, $2.00 for seniors and students, and youngsters ages 13 and under are free. For more information, call (816) 324-4720.
Read “Museum Hosts Special Exhibit” at TheSavannahReporter.com or buy a copy of the Savannah Reporter on the stands before August 17, 2011.
By Jess • July 25, 2011 • News • Comment
This summer, the Museum Association of St. Joseph is starting something new — trading cards for families to share and collect that add something special to their visit to participating museums and attractions. Families can collect a complete set of ten cards by visiting all of the participants.
The first trading card available at Andrew County Museum features the Funnel Gang of 1915. To learn more about the Funnel Gang, stop by Andrew County Museum and tour A Rural Way of Life. One card will be given to each admission paying family but if your family has multiple collectors, additional cards can be purchased for $0.25 a piece.
Other cards can be found at the following museums:
By Jess • July 22, 2011 • Press • Comment
On July 18, 2011, the St. Joseph News Press announced the start of a trading card program brought to the people of Andrew and Buchanan County by members of the Museum Association of St. Joseph.
Six local museums — Robidoux Row, the Albrecht-Kemper Museum of Art, the St. Joseph Museums, the National Military Heritage Museum, the Remington Nature Center and the Pony Express Museum, as well as the Agency/Ford Museum at Agency, the Andrew County Museum at Savannah and the Convention & Visitors Bureau at the East Hills Library — are all participating in the program. … Each museum will have a complete set of the trading cards so visitors can plan their visits to other sites to obtain more trading cards, Mrs. Carmichael said. If families like the idea, there will be a new set available starting on Memorial Day next year, she said.
Stop by Andrew County Museum beginning July 26, 2011 to begin your collection!
By Jess • July 1, 2011 • Press Releases • Comment
Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times, a national traveling exhibition that examines Lincoln’s life, accomplishments, and legacy opens at the Andrew County Museum on August 2nd through August 20th. Organized by the Gilder LehrmanInstitute of American History, this exhibition goes beyond images of Lincoln to focus on the evolution of his beliefs and his impact on the nation. The exhibition has been made possible in part by a grant from the National Endowment for the Humanities. The Andrew County Museum is located at 202 East Duncan Drive in Savannah. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10AM to 4PM. For more information, call (816) 324-4720.
A Man of His Times, A Man for All Times traces Lincoln’s path from a self-educated, rough-hewn lawyer with virtually no administrative experience to the president who guided a divided nation through the crises of slavery, secession and the Civil War. The exhibition shows how Lincoln transcended his age and left a constitutional legacy for all Americans.
By Jess • June 17, 2011 • Press • Comment
On June 17, 2011, Andrew County Museum was featured in aSt. Joseph News-Press article about Jeff Eseley’s discovery of an article about a civil war scrimmage in Savannah. This story is just one of several exciting stories we’ve discovered while our education committee investigates the civil war in Andrew County.
News of the battle was a surprise and good news to the Andrew County Museum.
Museum staff and the education committee are developing two traveling trunk programs to bring Andrew County Civil War stories to school kids this fall, said Glenn Uminowicz, the museum director. So news of a battle was exciting, he added.
The education committee has gone trolling through the museum collections. It even found letters by Civil War veterans, talking about their service, said Jess Rezac, curator.
The museum also plans to have a national traveling exhibition, “Abraham Lincoln: A Man of His Time, A Man for All Times.” The exhibit examines Mr. Lincoln’s life, accomplishments and legacy. It will be at the Andrew County Museum Aug. 2 through 20.
Read the article at Savannah man uncovers Civil War history – Local News Story – St. Joseph.
Do you have an Andrew County civil war story? Call Jess at 324-4720 to share it.
By Jess • June 1, 2011 • Press • Comment
On May 31, 2011, KQ2 visited Andrew County Museum and filmed a story about the Blue Star Museum program.
The Andrew County Museum became a Blue Star Museum today.
Blue Star Museums are a group of hundreds across America to offer free admission to families with a parent or spouse serving in Iraq or Afghanistan.
The program focuses on the approximate one-million children who have at least one parent deployed.
The offer extends through the summer months until Labor Day.
“We felt it was the right thing to do. It’s a small contribution for us to make,” says Glenn Uminowicz, Director of the Andrew County Museum.
For more information, visit www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums.
Visit StJoeChannel.com to watch the news story.
By Jess • May 29, 2011 • Press • Comment
On May 25, 2011, The Savannah Reporter announced Andrew County Museum’s participation in the NEA’s Blue Star Museums program.
On May 31st, the Andrew County Museum becomes a Blue Star Museum. The Blue Star Museums program began as a partnership among Blue Star Families, the National Endowment for the Arts, and hundreds of museums across America to offer free admission to families with a parent or spouse serving during this time of combat in Afghanistan and Iraq.
The program maintains a special focus on the approximately one million children who have had at least one parent deployed. Blue Star Museums offer these families a chance to visit cultural attractions this summer when many will have limited resources and time to be together.
The program runs from Memorial Day to Labor Day and is available to all active military personnel. Answers to frequently asked questions and a list of participating museums are available at www.arts.gov/bluestarmuseums. The Andrew County Museum is located at 202 East Duncan Drive in Savannah. Museum hours are Tuesday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. For more information, call 816-324-4720.
The article is available at thesavannahreporter.com.
By Jess • May 22, 2011 • Press • Comment
On May 22, 2011, Marshall White at the St. Joseph News-Press announced that the Smithsonian will be coming to Andrew County Museum in May 2012!
The exhibition entitled “The Way We Worked” will share stories of how work became a central element in American culture and the many changes affecting the workforce and work environments over the past 100 years.
Missouri is the first state to get the exhibition, said Glenn Uminowicz, director of the Andrew County Museum.
The newest Smithsonian Institution exhibition will travel throughout Missouri with the Missouri Humanities Council’s Museum on Main Street program ending up in Savannah on May 5 next year.
Read the article at Newspressnow.com and be sure to check back at our website for updates and announcements about The Way We Worked!
By Jess • April 12, 2011 • Press • Comment
Andrew County Museum appeared in a VisitMo Travel Club email about family fun in Missouri. A photo of the orientation area of the museum appeared in the email next to a link to the article “Smart Moves—Missouri Makes Learning Fun.” The article proclaimed:
History comes to life at the Andrew County Museum in Savannah. Explore “A Rural Way of Life,” an exhibit illustrating the county’s rich history from the past two centuries. Visitors to the museum learn about rural life on family farms and in small towns, with displays showing how life has changed through the years: stop in the general store; visit a farmhouse kitchen; watch a silent movie, projected against the side of a brick building, as it would have been done in the early 1900s.
Other Missouri attractions featured in the article include grouped the museum with The Magic House in Kirkwood, Kaleidoscope in Kansas City, and Country Caboose in Joplin. VisitMo Travel Club is a great way to find out about fun day trips in and around Missouri. To sign up, visit VisitMo.com.
