Museum on Main Street Touring Exhibits
The Way We Worked
The Way We Worked, the newest Smithsonian Institution exhibit to travel through Missouri with the Missouri Humanities Council’s Museum on Main Street program, shares the stories of how work became a central element in American culture and the many changes affecting the workforce and work environments over the past 100 years. The exhibition focuses on why we work and the needs that our jobs fulfill, featuring multiple interpretive opportunities for visitors through large graphics, audio components, relevant objects and work clothing.
The Way We Worked began touring Missouri in October 2011, with showings in Ste. Genevieve (October 8 to November 5), Rolla (November 19 to December 17), Poplar Bluff (January 3 to January 31), Fulton (February 11 to March 10), Lawson (March 24 to April 21), and Savannah (May 5 to June 2).
New Harmonies: Celebrating American Roots Music
Through an array of period photographs, recordings, instruments, lyrics and artist profiles, New Harmonies explores the distinct cultural identities of gospel, country, folk and other forms of music native to America.
American roots music explores the unique cultural identities of the many people that began to reshape their experience as they blended into a diverse and complex people – Americans.
Journey Stories
Our history is filled with stories of people leaving everything behind to reach a new life from across an ocean, state to state, or across the continent. The methods in which we traveled were inspired by the human drive for freedom.
Journey Stories examines the intersection between modes of travel and Americans’ desire to move. It’s the story of immigration, migration, innovation and freedom.
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