Exhibits

Hello lovely Museum members, and welcome to the Exhibits Corner! If you have been in the Museum since December, you would have noticed a lot has changed inside and, more recently, outside the Museum. I want to give y'all an update on what has been and will be going on with exhibits over the next few months. Right now, a large portion of the Vandewark gallery exhibits and all of the Hall of Fame exhibits are in collections storage, staying safe from the inevitable elements during construction. We appreciate your patience as we work around the giant plastic wall inside the Vandewark gallery. Unfortunately, we haven’t quite been able to change the laws of physics to suspend artifacts off its face, and the Cheyenne wind blowing in from beneath it makes it feel colder than a brass toilet seat on the shady side of an iceberg in the Vandewark gallery, so I’m conserving my digits rather than try anything too creative! But not to worry! I have not been dormant during this change! Besides leading our awesome exhibits staff in adding a fresh coat of paint to the Cheyenne Room and the Carriage Hall, I have been hard at work making an exhibit plan that will cover the next few years at the Museum. While I am still getting ready to share the details of this plan with everyone, I have a few teasers to drop in this episode of Stageline. The exhibits team and I have been hard at work creating 20 new exhibits that we can't wait to present to the public! Three of these will be available this coming year. These exhibits include a USS Cheyenne exhibit, an interactive digital exhibit highlighting the Kensinger family, and a Native American exhibit. The Kensinger and Native American exhibit will utilize some new display options that the Museum has acquired. The Kensinger exhibit will be on a digital