The excitement of the Museum in your own home! We're bringing all of the educational fun you have at the Museum home to you. Museum Minutes The Constellations Free Large Format Films Activities & Downloads Online Exhibits Astronomy Spotlight [...]
The excitement of the Museum in your own home! We're bringing all of the educational fun you have at the Museum home to you. Museum Minutes The Constellations Free Large Format Films Activities & Downloads Online Exhibits Astronomy Spotlight [...]
The excitement of the Museum in your own home! We're bringing all of the educational fun you have at the Museum home to you. Museum Minutes The Constellations Free Large Format Films Activities & Downloads Online Exhibits Astronomy Spotlight [...]
What an evening! We hosted our annual Member Celebration on June 13, and – WOW! We premiered our most recent educational film: Disneynature’s Penguins, as well as From Earth to the Universe, our summer Planetarium show. As always, we [...]
On March 15, 2019, the Hastings Museum and its Premiere-Level Members took part in the world-wide premiere of Superpower Dogs! That’s right, our Premiere Members watched this film in their hometown at the same time that it premiered on big screens in New York, Dallas, Los Angeles, and around the world. The evening was wall-to-wall [...]
We know that moms rock it on a daily basis, but these women were in a league of their own. Unsung heroines of the westward movement, pioneer mothers endured through blizzards and bank failures, crop failures and catastrophic storms, droughts and disasters to leave a legacy of strength and pride for their descendants. Wow! [...]
Low Sensory Sundays are a simple way for the museum to make all patrons comfortable. As members of the American Alliance of Museums (AAM), the Museum closely follows AAM’s working group on Diversity, Equity, Accessibility, and Inclusion (DEAI).
Courtesy of Adams County Historical Society. Nurses in front of Mary Lanning Hospital. Courtesy of Adams County Historical Society. Queen City Laundry. Courtesy of Adams County Historical Society. Flora Hamilton Cassel 1952 - 1911 Flora Hamilton [...]
Courtesy of Adams County Historical Society. Idella Willoughby Williams 1855 - 1903 After applying for divorce in 1876, citing "extreme cruelty," Idella filed a homestead claim for the land her husband originally claimed. In 1880, she proved up and [...]
Courtesy of Adams County Historical Society. Addie Lane 1839 - 1902 Addie Lane married in 1869 and started a family soon after. Within four years, her husband had died. In June of 1880, she and her daughter moved to Adams County to keep [...]
