Posted in Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), Events, News on Jul 3rd, 2014
After months of planning and effort, the newly renamed museum has opened at 102 W. Jefferson Street, Suite B (south entrance of the First Farmers Bank and Trust Building in downtown Culver)! The museum can be reached by phone at 574-635-0053. We’re sharing space with the newly-opened Culver and Lake Maxinkuckee Visitor Center, and both […]
Posted in Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), News, Organizations -- Historical Societies on Jun 3rd, 2014
Launch PDF file. for more information on the event). And mark your calendars for this summer’s other AHS events: Culver and Lake Maxinkuckee Museum of History grand re-opening (more details to come, and available here). (Sat., June 14, 1 p.m. as part of Taste of Culver at Jefferson and Main Streets). Annual AHS meeting (July […]
Posted in Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), News on May 5th, 2014
Launch PDF file. Launch PDF file. to read the Antiquarian and Historical Society of Culver’s Spring, 2014 newsletter, which was featured in the April 17, 2014 Culver Citizen newsletter. Included are updates on museum progress, meeting our new museum director, this summer’s concert event, and more!
Posted in Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), Culver Visitors Center, Libraries -- Public, News, Organizations -- Clubs, State Exchange Bank on Feb 1st, 2014
Prospective volunteers came past the AHS Museum’s table during the annual Clubs and Organizations Fair at the Culver Union Township Public Library last month. Members of the public got a glimpse of a floorplan for the new museum space, located next door to the Carnegie building in the Jefferson Street entrance to the First Farmers […]
Posted in Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), Famous People, Lake Maxinkuckee -- East Shore, News, Orchards, Vonnegut-Schnull-Mueller on Jun 21st, 2013
The Center for Culver History hosts the Kurt Vonnegut Memorial Library’s traveling exhibit through July 20th. The exhibit celebrates the life and work of Indiana’s premier social critic and writer, and features interactive displays and replicas of Kurt, Jr.’s typewriter, Purple Heart and more. Running along with the Memorial Library display is an exhibit curated […]
Posted in Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), Culver Academies, News, Schools on Jun 5th, 2013
The fifth grade classes of Culver Elementary immersed themselves in our area’s unique natural, historical and cultural heritage as part of a joint tour of the Center for Culver History and the Culver Academy History Museum on May 21st. The students learned about the State Exchange Bank robbery of 1933, the history of early Indian […]
Posted in Boats, Buildings, Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), Culver -- Town of, Culver Academies, Hotels, Lake Maxinkuckee, Lake Maxinkuckee -- East Shore, Lake Maxinkuckee -- Miscellaneous, Lake Maxinkuckee -- South Shore, Lake Maxinkuckee -- West Shore, News on Mar 26th, 2013
Check out our NEW set of 8 note cards! Send out Thank-You’s or Forget-Me-Not’s in high style with vintage images from Culver’s diverse history. They were commissioned by the Antiquarian and Historical Society of Culver, IN and were inspired by a collection of old photos and postcards. The images were selected by Judy Kimmel Sawhook […]
Posted in Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), Culver -- Town of, Culver Academies, Famous People, News, Organizations -- Historical Societies on Mar 25th, 2013
Warner Williams exhibit at museum Ongoing at The Center for Culver History is a display of Culver Academy’s 20-year artist-in-residence and Culver citizen Warner Williams. This exhibit encompasses both works of art loaned to the museum from members of the public, as well as various memorabilia from the life of one of our community’s more […]
Posted in Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), Culver -- Town of, Culver Academies, Famous People, News, Publications -- Newsletters on Mar 1st, 2013
Launch PDF file. The Winter (Feb. 21 publication date) issue of the AHS’ “Culver History Quarterly” was published in the Culver Citizen newspaper recently. As part of the AHS-Citizen partnership, every member of the AHS will receive a subscription to Culver’s weekly newspaper of record (read more in the newsletter itself). A number of […]
Posted in Center for Culver History (AHS Museum), Culver -- Town of, Culver Academies, Events, Families, Famous People, Libraries -- Public, News on Feb 22nd, 2013
Ask any long-time Culver citizen about Warner Williams, and you’ll probably hear a description of an eccentric man riding around town on his bicycle, his long beard flying behind him. Others may recall the geodesic dome he constructed in his back yard, out of from which he churned out countless plaster animal sculptures following his […]
