*Please note that the museum has additional hours today from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.

Our history is filled with stories of people leaving behind everything – families and possessions – to reach a new life in another state, across the continent, or even across an ocean.

Many chose to move, searching for something better in a new land. Others had no choice, like enslaved Africans captured and relocated to a strange land and bravely asserting their own cultures, or like Native Americans already here, who were often violently removed by newcomers.

This exhibit runs December 12, 2009 – January 24, 2010. The exhibit hours are:

Monday through Friday: 9:00 a.m. to 1:30 p.m.
Thursday through Thursday: Special extended hours from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
Saturday and Sunday: 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

For more information, please contact the Heritage Center at 309.755.8398.