With high temperatures expected to reach only the single-digit range this weekend, the Finney County Historical Museum will close Feb. 13 and 14. Regular winter exhibit hours of 1-5 p.m. will remain in effect before and after those dates, along with office hours of 9 a.m.-5 p.m. weekdays, but there […]
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MUSEUM PROGRAMS IN FEBRUARY FOCUS ON HISTORY OF SABINE & CALKINS HALLS
students seated in front of Sabine Hall when the historic Garden City structure was occupied by Garden City Community College, circa 1963-1970. The Finney County Historical Society will offer another pair of free evening and noon-hour history programs for the public in February as part of the History at High […]
FINNEY COUNTY MUSEUM RESUMING FREE NOON & EVENING HISTORY PROGRAMS
The Finney County Historical Society is resuming its free evening and noon-hour history programs for the public, beginning Jan. 13. The winter-spring sessions for 2021 will take place with socially-distanced seating and additional COVID-19 precautions. Each is scheduled in the Mary Regan Conference Room of the Finney County Museum, 403 […]
GARDEN CITY BIG POOL ITEMS NOW AVAILABLE AT FINNEY COUNTY MUSEUM STORE
People with fond memories of Garden City’s Big Pool, once billed as the world’s largest free, concrete, municipal swimming pool, may want to stop by the Finney County Historical Museum as part of their holiday shopping. The museum’s gift shop is offering commemorative Big Pool T-shirts in two styles, as […]
NEW HISTORIC CHRISTMAS CARD EXHIBIT OPEN AT FINNEY COUNTY MUSEUM
While the Finney County Historical Museum won’t be hosting a holiday open house this year, due to COVID precautions, it has opened its 2020 Christmas Exhibit in the Front Door Gallery. Entitled “Season’s Greetings, Historic 19th and 20th Century Christmas Cards,” the display features approximately three-dozen antique Christmas cards dating […]
UPDATE–19th AMENDMENT EXHIBIT DELAYED UNTIL OCT. 30
The Finney County Historical Museum in Garden City now expects to open the statewide traveling exhibit on the 19th Amendment Centennial on Oct. 30, rather than Oct. 28. Delivery of the display is delayed due to weather-related roadway conditions. Sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Kansas, the seven-panel […]
FINNEY COUNTY MUSEUM EXHIBIT TO MARK CENTENNIAL OF WOMEN VOTING
19th.tif EEOC.tif The Finney County Historical Museum will host a traveling exhibit before, during and after Election Day that’s designed to bring life to the history of the women’s suffrage movement in Kansas. The exhibit, sponsored by the League of Women Voters of Kansas, is scheduled for display Oct. 28-Nov. […]
NEW MUSEUM EXHIBIT TRACES HISTORY OF LOCAL WOMEN’S GROUPS
The newest short-term exhibit in the Finney County Historical Museum’s Front Door Gallery has just opened, offering visitors a picture of how local women have founded and developed a wide range of associations, organizations, clubs and societies devoted to improving the quality of life in the community. The display, entitled […]
NEW FINNEY COUNTY MUSEUM EXHIBIT ASKS “WHAT’S IN YOUR CABINET?”
Visitors to the Finney County Historical Museum in Garden City can see over 100 vintage pieces of Fire King, Glasbake and Pyrex dinner and kitchenware in a colorful new exhibit entitled “What’s in Your Cabinet?” Assembled by Museum Education Coordinator Johnetta Hebrlee, the display is located in the museum’s Front […]
NOON & EVENING MUSEUM LECTURES JANUARY TO MAY TOUCH HISTORICAL TOPICS
The Finney County Historical Museum in Garden City has announced its full series of Brown Bag Lunch and Evening at the Museum lectures for the spring season of 2020. Brown Bag Lunch programs take place at noon the second Wednesday of January, February, March, April and May. Evenings at the […]