Monday, March 16, 2020

PLEASE NOTE: We are following the suggestions from the CDC and are suspending our regularly scheduled activities at the Ozark County Historium and will be closed for the next couple of weeks. It's a shame, because we'd LOVE to show you our current exhibit, Missouri's Struggle for Statehood. But hopefully we will be back up and running before too long. In the meantime, work on your family tree! Sort your family photos! Write your own personal story! Fill your self-isolation time with productive, meaningful work that will benefit future generations. Have fun!

Monday, March 9, 2020


We are so pleased to invite everyone to visit our new exhibit, The Struggle for Statehood! This wonderful display is a museum-quality exhibit and is on loan to us from the Missouri Humanities Council. In the photo, MHC employee Claire Bruntrager is shown after she came from St. Louis to help get the exhibit set up. We will be hosting this exhibit for five more weeks, so you have plenty of time to plan your visit. You'll be impressed, and you'll learn a lot about the history of Missouri, the impact it had on the Union and the controversy it inspired. Call our facility at 417-679-2400 for more information. Hope to see you there!

Tuesday, February 11, 2020

Welcome to 2020! It's going to be a great year at the Ozark County Historium, with several new things in the planning stages. First up is a new quilt exhibit, this time featuring the quilts of Virginia Gaskell McMurtrey of Dora.
Virginia has been making quilts for more than 60 years, and she estimates she has made a MINIMUM of 200 big quilts, as well as hundreds of small wallhangings, table runners, baby quilts, etc. She has shared a sampling of her work for us to display. Be sure to come in to the Historium to see it -- the display will continue until mid-March.

COMING SOON! Struggling for Statehood, an exhibit provided by the Missouri Humanities Council, will fill our space for six weeks, beginning March 2. As we approach the Bicentennial of the State of Missouri in 2021, we're thinking about what it took for Missouri to become a state. Come in when we have this fine exhibit to learn more about the process, which included the controversial Missouri Compromise.

CIVIL WAR DISCUSSION GROUP CONTINUES: On the third Thursday of each month, a group gathers at the Historium to discuss things that happened during the Civil War. If you are interested in the historic conflict and the effect it had on Ozark County, please join us! The next meeting will be on Thursday, February 20, at 10:00. A warm welcome and a hot coffee pot await you! Everyone is welcome.