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Past Exhibits
Boomer! generation speaks: Exhibit extended through March 13, 2010
The baby boom generation has never been shy about telling the world what’s on its mind. Clark County Historical Museum has extended the run of its Boomer! exhibit through 2009 due to baby boomer demand. “Baby boomer” is a term commonly used to describe the 76 million people born between 1946 and 1964. The Boomer! exhibit, exploring the ways the baby boom generation transformed American culture, places particular emphasis on Southwest Washington. The exhibit originally was scheduled to close at the end of April 2009. It now will run through the end of 2009.
Clark County Historical Museum's ladies' night offers First Thursday garden lecture and new Women’s Suffrage exhibit opening
The Clark County Historical Museum heats up for summer with a free women’s suffrage exhibit opening and a garden lecture Thursday, July 2, from 5 to 9 p.m.
Catharine Paine Blaine: Seneca Falls and The Women’s Rights Movement in the State of Washington is a traveling exhibit that celebrates the 2010 Washington Women’s Suffrage Centennial through an exploration of the effect of settlers’ reform ideas on the development of women’s rights in Washington State. Washington was an early leader in women’s suffrage and passed a voting law 10 years before the 19th amendment to the U.S. Constitution in 1920.
Catharine Paine Blaine and her husband, David E. Blaine, were the first Methodist missionary couple in Seattle in 1853. Blaine, one of the 100 signers of the Declaration of Sentiments at the July 1848 Women’s Rights Convention in Seneca Falls, N.Y., had strong views about women’s rights. Blaine voted in Washington long before the women of her native New York State gained that right. The exhibit includes a timeline of the movement to win women’s suffrage in the State of Washington.
The exhibit, which runs through the end of the year, is a joint project of Women’s Rights National Historical Park in Seneca Falls, N.Y., and the Washington State Historical Society
The exhibit opens on the same evening as July’s First Thursday Museum After Hours speaker Linda Chalker-Scott discusses most common myths and misconceptions that plague home gardeners and horticultural professionals. Chalker-Scott is a Washington State University professor and Master Gardener Program curriculum director. Chalker-Scott wrote The Informed Gardener and will sign copies of her book. The museum is open for free 5 to 9 p.m. on First Thursday evenings. Lectures begin at 7 p.m.
CCHM is located in Vancouver’s 1909 Carnegie Library, 1511 Main St., Vancouver, and created the Carnegie Library Consortium of Washington. The museum also developed Mr. Carnegie's Grand Tour of Washington, an annual automobile-based travel passport program exploring the state’s historic Carnegie libraries and other heritage sites in Washington. Check our Web site, wwww.cchmuseum.org, for more information.
Regular museum hours are: Tuesday through Saturday 11 a.m. to 4 p.m. Admission is charged. The museum also is open free from 5 to 9 p.m. the first Thursday of the month, between February and November, for First Thursday Museum After Hours. A wheelchair accessible entrance to the museum is located on the east side of the museum building on 16th street.
Call CCHM, (360) 993-5679, or visit the Web site, at www.cchmusem.org, for more information.
For Immediate Release: Boomer! exhibit extends its run to end of 2009
Where: Clark County Historical Museum, 1511 Main Street, Vancouver, WA 98660
Contact:(360) 993-5679 or cchm@pacifier.com
The Mapmaker’s Eye exhibit commemorates the bicentennial of fur agent and cartographer David Thompson’s explorations in the Northwest between 1807 and 1812. It will be at Clark County Historical Museum for a limited engagement through June 6.
Click here for a video to hear Susan Tissot, Executive Director, talk about the Mapmaker’s Eye exhibit.
The Mapmaker’s Eye: David Thompson (1770-1857) on the Columbia Plateau, is a traveling exhibit based on a book by Spokane, WA historian Jack Nisbet. The exhibit opens at the Clark County Historical Museum at 5 p.m. Thursday, Jan. 29 and runs through June 6, 2009. The exhibit commemorates the bicentennial of fur agent and cartographer David Thompson’s explorations in the Northwest between 1807 and 1812. Thompson, the counterpart of America’s Lewis and Clark, was an English-Canadian fur trader who worked for the Hudson Bay Company in Manitoba, Canada, before joining its competitor, the Northwest Company. Thompson was the first European to navigate the full length of the Columbia River. The maps he made of the Columbia River basin east of the Cascade Mountains were of such high quality and detail that they were used well into the mid-20th century. He also was the first Euro-American to make the acquaintance of many Plateau tribes.
The exhibit originally was designed by the Museum of Arts & Culture in Spokane. It is made available via the Washington State Historical Society’s traveling exhibit service. It features excerpts from Thompson’s field journals and reproductions of his maps and sketches; historic paintings by Paul Kane, Henry J. Ware, and Gustavus Sohon and; photographs of period surveying instruments, fur trade items and tribal artifacts. It also includes related objects from the Clark County Historical Museum Collection.
Two books about David Thompson are available at the Museum:
 The Mapmaker's Eye: David Thompson on the Columbia Plateau By Jack Nisbet Washington State University Press; 2005 |
 Columbia Journals Bicentennial Edition By David Thompson (Edited by Barbara Belyea) University of Washington Press; 2007 |
For Immediate Release:
Smithsonian Exhibit to visit
Exhibit Opening & Run Dates: July 26, 2008 3-5 PM and Through September 14, 2008
Where:
Contact Person: Museum Staff, (360) 993-5679 or cchm@pacifier.com or tissots@pacifier.com
Smithsonian
Exhibit: Key Ingredients:
The
The Clark County Historical
Museum and the surrounding community has been expressly chosen by Humanities
Washington and the Smithsonian Institution to host Key Ingredients
as part of the Museum on Main Street project – a national/state partnership to
bring exhibitions and programs to rural cultural organizations. The exhibition
will tour 10 communities in
Through a selection of artifacts, photographs and illustrations, Key Ingredients examines how culture, ethnicity, landscape and tradition influence the foods and flavors we enjoy across the nation. The exhibition looks at the evolution of the American kitchen and how food industries have responded to the technological innovations that have enabled Americans to choose an ever-wider variety of frozen, prepared and fresh foods.
An interactive website, www.keyingredients.org, has been developed in conjunction with the exhibition. The site invites people across the country to share their family recipes and food stories, learn about other food traditions and identify favorite small town eateries.
“We are very pleased to bring Key Ingredients to our area,” said Susan Tissot, Executive Director, Clark County Historical Society & Museum. “We hope that it will inspire many to become even more involved in the cultural life of our community.”
“Allowing all of our
state’s residents to have access to the cultural resources of our nation’s
premiere museum is a priority of Humanities Washington,” said Ellen Terry,
Director of Grants and Exhibits. “With this special tour, we are pleased to be
working with the
1) July 26, 2008, 3-5 PM opening reception (free and open to the public) which includes a street fair on 16th street between Main and Broadway that features local restaurants and other food related organizations with festivals. The exhibit opening also includes the kick off of a Classic Cook Book Sale which includes gently used cook books for sale.
2) English Estates Winery,
3) August 11, 2008 at 12 noon special luncheon honoring the forgotten women of the schools, the Lunch Ladies.
4) August 21, 2008 7 PM
lecture by Dr. Candice Goucher, History professor at Washington State
University Vancouver, Food for All Ages:
What the Meals We Feed Our Children Reveal About
5) September 4, 2008 at 7
PM lecture by local Chef Aaron Chapin, Culinary Footprints of
6) September 27, 2008, 10
am - 4 PM
Key Ingredients is part of
Museum on Main Street (MOMS), a unique collaboration between the Smithsonian
Institution Traveling Exhibition Service (SITES), state humanities councils
across the nation, and local host institutions. To learn more about Key
Ingredients and other MOMS exhibitions, visit
www.museumonmainstreet.org.
Support for Museum on
For more information
contact the
Vancouver Uncovered showcases the history of the City of Vancouver's 150 years of incorporation. Visitors will gain insight into the social and economic development of the residents and businesses of Clark County's largest city as they explore its history.
Want to see a virtual tour of Vancouver Uncovered? Click here to see Tara Rethwill's HPG curriculum project. Preview Vancouver Uncovered by viewing the video taped interview with CVTV's Donna Mason and CCHS Executive Director Susan Tissot. Click here to view the streaming video (25:17)
Native Perspectives Exhibit Series 2006
Full Circle: Yesterday, Today and Tomorrowis the third and final installation in our Native Perspectivesseries. This 2006 series marks the anniversary of the infamous Corps of Discovery. Full Circle features contemporary works by noted Native American artists Lillian Pitt and Chuck Williams. The exhibit also includes selections from the Museum's Native American collection.
After the Journey:A Regional Art Perspective on the Corp of Discoveryis a sequel exhibit to Native Perspectives on the Trail:
A Contemporary American Indian Art Portfolio, which opened on June 10, 2006 at 5 PM. This exhibit features juried art in a variety of mediums from artists of various ethnic backgrounds who have given their perspective on Lewis and Clark through their artwork. The exhibit will run through September 30, 2006 at the Clark County Historical Museum. Additional pieces from this exhibit will be on display at the Sixth Street Gallery, 105 West 6th Street, Vancouver Washington, from June 10, 2006 through July 2, 2006. For information on Sixth Street Gallery please visit www.sixthstreetgallery.com.
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