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Art Camp Registration Opens

What better way to spend time in the summer than exercising your creativity at Art Camp? Students from rising 3rd grade – rising 8th grade are invited to join us for a week of fun and creativity at our annual Art Camps. Dates for this year’s camps are: Rising Middle School (6th, 7th, 8th grades) [...]

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Museum Center’s Volunteer Guild Invites You

The Volunteer Guild is hosting a kickoff coffee reception on Thursday April 26 at 10am, and would love for you to attend! The Guild is an organization of men and women whose mission is to support the Museum Center staff in their work preserving our history and sponsoring exhibits and educational opportunities. Guild membership is [...]

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Annual Appeal 2012 – The Myra Inman Project

  During the Civil War, from 1859-1866, a teenaged Cleveland girl named Myra Inman faithfully kept a diary. Little did she know that one day her simple journal, now published in book form, would one day be such an important part of our local history? Help us share her story. Your donation will help us [...]

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NEW! Digital Scavenger Hunt

We’re excited to announce the addition of a fun, new program available at no additional charge to our exhibit guests – the Digital Scavenger Hunt! When you purchase a ticket to our exhibits, you can also use your smartphone, iPad or iPod Touch to follow along this new digital tour. QR codes (those little black [...]

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Visit Vanishing Appalachia

Opening Saturday, March 24, Vanishing Appalachia is a traveling exhibition of more than 90 photographs captured by famed Knoxville photographer Don Dudenbostel and field recordings by media producer Tom Jester. The exhibit documents aspects of Appalachian culture that are fading from existence, including roadside culture, moonshine, cockfighting and snake handling. The black and white photographs [...]

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Come Mug it Up!

Have you ever dreamed of seeing your “mug” on your own coffee mug? If so, we have the perfect workshop for you! On Saturday, March 31, the Museum will host an Appalachian Face Mug Party Day. John C. Campbell School potter Rob Withrow will offer a morning and afternoon workshop where he will teach you [...]

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Missoula Children’s Theater: The Secret Garden

The Missoula Children’s Theatre, the nation’s largest touring children’s theater, has been touring extensively for 38 years now from Montana to Japan, and will be in residence at the Museum Center from March 12-17th, 2012. For those who have not experienced this great program before, here’s how it works. A tour team arrives with a [...]

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Stitches-In-Time Quilt Exhibit Programs

We have put together a full schedule of lectures and classes for you this year to go along with our popular quilt exhibit. Come join us and be inspired, informed and enlightened with this wide range of programs! All programs are held here at the Museum Center, see the individual listings for dates and times. [...]

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8th Annual Grape Escape Wine Dinner and Auction

Your next social event could be an elegant cocktail party for fifty of your closest friends at the magnificent Holly Hill Estate of Robert Rymer and John Teets, if you’re the lucky winner of the live auction at this year’s Grape Escape event! The Museum Center is hosting the Eighth Annual Grape Escape Wine Dinner [...]

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We Have the Best Volunteers!

The staff treated our wonderful volunteers to a holiday luncheon last week as a way to say thanks for all that they do for us! The Cultural Center was in full holiday splendor, and everyone was festively attired contributing to a fun holiday feeling to the event.  After a lunch of homemade chicken casserole and [...]

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