"The only thing new is the history we don't know." Harry Truman
The museum sponsors several annual events to get museum visitors actively involved in imagining life in days gone by and to encourage new visitors to come to the museum.
Spring: Kindergarten Days
Local classes of kindergarteners are treated to demonstrations of pioneer life.
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Summer: family fun on the trail
Food, music and living history demonstrations make a visit to the museum a special treat for the whole family.
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Winter: Trees Along The Trail
This event attracts new museum visitors and raises funds for the museum and local nonprofit organizations. Each sponsoring organization provides and decorates a Christmas tree. Museum visitors buy tickets and vote on their favorite trees, with half the proceeds from each vote going to the museum and half to the sponsoring organization. The top vote-getters earn additional money for their nonprofit organizations.
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Autumn: Art auction?
We don't know yet if we'll do a repeat of our successful art gourd fundraiser birthday party next year, but we just weren't ready to delete from our website the wonderful photos of the gourds the artists submitted. So, here they are:
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North Platte Valley Museum P.O. Box 435. 900 Overland Trails Road . 11th & J . Gering, NE 69341 . 308-436-5411 . npvm@earthlink.net
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