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Current Exhibits
Showcase for History for Twenty Years: 1988–2008
The Powers Museum is dedicated to the concept of rotating exhibits and has no permanent displays. During twenty years of public service, over sixty exhibits have been featured on local history as well as Missouri and regional history themes. Click here to see what you have missed.
The main gallery exhibit this year looks at entertainment venues and activities in Carthage from Lakeside Park to opera houses and movie theaters, to fairs and fetes and more. This corresponds with the "That's Entertainment!" Chautauqua in June and will continue past the event throughout the year with special highlights including mini-displays, public programs and hands-on activities.
June and July will feature a temporary display on Carthage's Chautauqua Assembly. August will host a special display of 1910–1930s jig-saw puzzles including locally-made Topsy Turvy Puzzles. September will feature a program on "Wild Bill" Cody's Wild West Show and the Sells-Floto Circus visit to Carthage in 1915 along with a mini-display of recently-donated contemporary western gear that kids and the young-at-heart may try on.
Most of October will host the annual Maple Leaf Festival Quilt Show. The remainder of the year, the main gallery will feature holiday "entertainments" (especially those for Halloween, Thanksgiving and Christmas) among the basic "Entertaining Carthage Through the Years" exhibit.
October 3–8: Entire museum will be in transition for set-up of annual Maple Leaf Festival Quilt Show. From October 3 to October 31 only small portions of the Carthage history displays in the main gallery and elsewhere will be visible due to hanging of quilts.
November 1–5: Quilt exhibit will be taken down and final exhibit for 2008 will be set-up for opening November 8.
Consult our "Schedule" page for further details.
Other smaller seasonal displays and off-site exhibits will be posted when dates are finalized. So, visit often and come back with a friend!
NEW FOR 2008 — Online Exhibits
Browse this Web site to see additional exhibits on Carthage's
minor league baseball teams as well
as our newest online exhibit on the industrial heritage of Jasper County's
lead and zinc mines along with its limestone quarries.
Souvenir of Carthage: Postcards from Carthage's Past
Carthage in the 1860s–1870s
Carthage in the New Century: 1900–1909
Carthage Maps, 1891 & 1895
Topsy Turvy Puzzles of the 1930s — Homegrown Fun
* Please note: During the set-up, display and dismantling of the Maple Leaf Quilt Show, exhibits throughout the museum may be in transition. Check schedule page for visitor alerts.
Image at the top of this page:
Partial view of Carthage Red Cross display of donated goods during World
War I (from Museum's 1990 exhibit "No Ordinary Duty.")
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1617 West Oak • P.O. Box 593 • Carthage, MO 64836
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