This exhibit by Wheeling artist Jamona Sinclair features a series of landscape paintings. Other examples of her work were included in the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) exhibit earlier this year. On exhibit through November.
In September 2023, Marshall County art students ventured outdoors for a plein air paint out as part of an annual event in which adult and student artists worked at several venues, including Grave Creek Mound Archaeological Complex. On exhibit through
On June 6, 1944, the Allies invaded the Normandy beaches to liberate Europe from the Nazis. More than 5,000 ships with thousands of tanks and landing craft and nearly 200,000 men crossed the English Channel. Hundreds of ships fell victim to German shellfire, mines, and torpedoes and are being documented by dive teams, submersibles, and... View Article
This program looks at Thanksgiving through Native American eyes. In March of 1621, Massasoit, chief of the Wampanoag tribe in New England, negotiated a diplomatic alliance with a scraggly band of English settlers for the benefit of his people. Half a century later, a brutal war flared up.
Meet authors Gary L. Rider and Roseanna Dakan Keller who will give a short introduction to their newest book which tells the story of Moundsville’s Fostoria Glass plant and some of the people who worked there. The program will be held at the museum’s exhibit of Fostoria glass and copies of the book will be... View Article
Use acrylic paints to create a unique decoration or greeting card for a loved one or friend.
Produced in 2005 by the WGBH Educational Foundation, part of the PBS American Experience Series. Told through the narratives of escaped slaves and their descendants, this is the story of the secret network of deeply committed individuals who helped escaped slaves find their way to freedom.
Produced in 2005 by the WGBH Educational Foundation, part of the PBS American Experience Series. Told through the narratives of escaped slaves and their descendants, this is the story of the secret network of deeply committed individuals who helped escaped slaves find their way to freedom.
Join us for an afternoon with Ainsley Gray, Agricultural Program Assistants at the Marshall County Cooperative Extension Office, members of Ohio County Master Gardeners, and museum volunteers. Learn about monarch butterflies, take seeds from the museum’s Interpretive Garden to grow at home, propagate a house plant, make a “Sprout House” for germinating seeds, and more.
Do you have a mystery fossil? Bring it for expert identification by Dr. Elizabeth Rhenberg from the WV Geological and Economic Survey! Don’t have a fossil? A fossil display by members of the West Virginia Fossil Club will showcase some of their specimens and answer questions about collecting fossils, and Taylor McCoy from Pittsburgh will... View Article
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