Reflecting on a Pandemic Summer in Sheboygan by Summer Graduate Intern Jarrod Showalter This summer, I interned with the Sheboygan County Historical Society and Museum. I was hired to assist Tamara Lange, the Museum’s Curator of Collections and Exhibits....
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City of 4 C’s Scavenger Hunt
City of 4 C's Scavenger Hunt We went on a bear hunt outside, now we're going on a cheese hunt inside! Come to the Sheboygan County Historical Museum for our City of 4 C's Scavenger Hunt featuring cheese wedges! Did you know that cheese is one of the C's that made...
Accessioning the Armory: Celebrating & Preserving Sheboygan’s Municipal Auditorium and Armory
Join us for our first “working” exhibition – Accessioning the Armory: Collecting and Preserving Sheboygan’s Municipal Auditorium and Armory. Not only will this feature exhibition share the history of the building, from construction as a Great Depression WPA Project to...
Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence Exhibition
Join us as we continue the celebration 100th Anniversary of the Nineteenth Amendment with Votes for Women: A Portrait of Persistence. Based on the National Portrait Gallery exhibition of the same name, this poster exhibition will explore the story of women’s suffrage...
That DOES Belong in a Museum!
That DOES Belong in a Museum! And we need YOUR help to make it happen! By Tamara Lange, Curator of Collections & Exhibits One of the most interesting and often challenging parts of my job is guiding the addition of objects to the Museum’s object collection. There...
Cloth as Community: Hmong Textiles in America
Join us for our Feature Traveling Exhibit, included with regular museum admission! Hmong flower cloth (or paj ntaub) is one of the world’s great textile. Despite its deep roots in Hmong culture, this complex art was not widely known outside Asia until after the...
NOW VIRTUAL!! Holiday Memories 2020: Home for the Holidays
Now Available -- Holiday Memories 2020 Virtual Content! An Important Message from Executive Director Travis Gross: Holiday Memories Updates With the support of the Board of Directors, I have decided to cancel in-person Holiday Memories for 2020. Due to the caseload of...
Cataloging Artifacts During a Pandemic…From Home – By Nathan Chisholm
Cataloging Artifacts During a Pandemic...From Home By Nathan Chisholm, Education Supplies Manager While the museum is closed due to the COVID-19 outbreak, work continues, although slightly different than normal. Through the course of any given year, the museum...
I’m Dreaming of a White Christmas
I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas A Classic Hollywood Blog Thanks to the sponsorship of Clear Captions, the Sheboygan County Historical Museum was able to host our first ever Senior Holiday Night Out on December 19, 2019! This highly anticipated event quickly sold out...
Reflections on a Summer in Sheboygan by Summer Graduate Intern Rebecca Schnabel
Over the summer, I interned with the Sheboygan County Historical Society and Museum in Sheboygan, Wisconsin. I was hired specifically to serve as the Museum Curator Tamara Lange’s summer intern. As well as assisting with everyday operations, I was assigned the project of writing, designing, and installing a new permanent exhibit for the museum. The Museum choose to remove an exhibit which had been in place since the 1990s, replacing it with one that featured the Sheboygan based, nationally known 1950s quartet, the Chordettes (most famously known for singing Mr. Sandman and Lollipop) called Harmonizing Heroines: Sheboygan’s Chordettes.
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