Published Date: Oct 13, 2019

Maybe you haven’t been since you were a kid on a field trip, but things are always changing here. Seven years ago, we changed our name from the Early American Museum. Just this year, we changed one of our most-beloved permanent exhibits. Now, the hands-on “Discovering Home” exhibit focuses on how local native people and settlers lived in the early days of Champaign County.

Other exhibits include “Champaign County’s Lincoln” (a local look at his days practicing law on the 8th Judicial Circuit), “The Grand Prairie Story” (in which we speed from glaciers to the 1950s in the blink of an eye) and “Blacksmithing on the Prairie” (where we rec- eate a central Illinois blacksmith shop, ca. 1920 in its entirety).