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The Museum of Idaho (MOI) is a history and science museum in downtown Idaho Falls, Idaho. The museum features exhibits, collections, and programs focused on the social and environmental history of Idaho and the Intermountain West , as well as prominent traveling exhibits on a variety of subjects.
Idaho Museum of Natural History: Pocatello Bannock Eastern Natural history: Idaho’s geology, fossils, Ice-age megafauna, native culture, plants and animals Idaho Potato Museum: Blackfoot: Bingham: Southeast Food - Potato: Potato farming, food culture Idaho State Historical Museum: Boise Ada Southwest History
The museum exhibits a variety of anthropological artifacts, ethnographic items, and natural history specimens, primarily from the Americas. Notable among them is the Simon Clovis cache of over thirty stone bifaces found in Idaho in 1961, [1] and a replica of the Huntington Canyon Mammoth, a nearly-complete Columbian mammoth skeleton unearthed in Utah in 1988. [2]
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In May 1977, the Idaho State Board of Education adopted a resolution requesting that Governor John V. Evans designate the Idaho State University Museum as the Idaho Museum of Natural History (IMNH) and signed into law on July 1, 1977. In 1986, the Idaho State Legislature confirmed the IMNH as Idaho's official state museum of natural history.
The Idaho History Center. The Idaho State Historical Society (ISHS) is a historical society located in the U.S. state of Idaho that preserves and promotes the state's cultural heritage. [1] The society was founded as the Historical Society of Idaho Pioneers in 1881, nine years before statehood in 1890, and was established as a state agency in 1907.
The museum was founded on 6 March 1989 by John and Sue Paul. [2] The P-47 Dottie Mae, which was recovered from a lake in Austria in 2005, was restored by Vintage Airframes in Caldwell, Idaho and unveiled in August 2017 at the Warhawk Air Museum's Warbird Roundup. [3] In 2021, it announced plans for an expansion. [4]
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