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This list of museums in Nebraska encompasses museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
In 1861, David Millspaw became the first permanent settler in the area of what was to become Aurora. Hamilton County was formed in 1870. [4] Aurora was laid out as a town in 1871 by David Stone who named it after his former hometown of Aurora, Illinois. [5] [6] The county seat was transferred from Orville City (an extinct town) to Aurora in ...
Hamilton County is a county in the U.S. state Nebraska. As of the 2020 United States Census, the population was 9,429. [1] Its county seat is Aurora. [2] The county was named for Alexander Hamilton, the first Secretary of the Treasury in the new United States government. Hamilton County is included in the Grand Island, NE Metropolitan ...
The Streeter–Peterson House, located at 1121 9th St. in Aurora, Nebraska, was built in 1900 by local builders Johnson & Henthorn. It is designed in "classical" Queen Anne style. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1991; the listing included two contributing buildings .
Although the school's official name became "The Art Institute of Colorado (AiC)", it was sometimes referred to as the "Colorado Institute of Art (CIA)". On June 27, 2013, the Art Institute of Colorado was placed on notice by its regional accreditor, the Higher Learning Commission (HLC) of the North Central Association of Colleges and Schools ...
The Aurora site features a replica homestead village that includes two houses, a school house, blacksmith shop and chicken coop, a replica tipi camp, and 1,000 acres of shortgrass prairie. Special seasonal events and education programs are offered through the City of Aurora's naturalist program and the Denver Botanic Gardens. [6]
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts was founded by artists Jun Kaneko, Tony Hepburn, Lorne Falke and Ree Schonlau in 1981. [2] In 1984, Ree Schonlau established a consortium consisting of the City of Omaha, the United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, private and corporate foundations and the Mercer family, who owned the vacant 170,000-square-foot (16,000 m 2) Bemis Bag Building.
The Plainsman Museum is a museum located in Aurora, Nebraska, focusing on the history of the settlers and their descendants in the central Nebraska plains region.It was officially dedicated on July 4, 1976, as a part of the American national bicentennial, and consists of a complex of buildings housing various items demonstrating the everyday life of the plains settlers, along with agricultural ...