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Kernels of Culture: Maize Around the World (May 3, 2024 – March 31, 2025) at the Stephen and Peter Sachs Museum at the Missouri Botanical Garden focuses on the complex story of one of the world’s most important crop plants, maize (Zea mays), which is used by billions of people every day, for food, for […]
Immerse your senses with the sights, sounds, and aromatic smells of authentic German food, music, and activities. Hosted each weekend in October, the festival features events focused on German Heritage. The Visit Hermann website has a packed events calendar that highlights the full lineup of live music. Hosted day and night there's something for everyone, […]
A series of six exhibitions and presentations, curated and implemented by Dr. Billie Follensbee, Museum Studies Program Coordinator, exploring the history and culture of the Ozarks October 2024-September 2025 at the Park Central Library Branch, Springfield, MO. This exhibition series is supported by a Missouri Humanities Council Major Grant. This exhibition and presentation series features […]
The State Historical Society of Missouri invites the public to visit a new exhibition, Wild Missouri – the ART of Conservation, open now through March 29, 2025, at the SHSMO Art Gallery located in the Center for Missouri Studies, 605 Elm St., Columbia. A public reception featuring the exhibit’s curator Joan Stack and photographer Noppadol […]
Join The Griot Museum of Black History to celebrate Sister Cities St. Louis Missouri and Saint-Louis, Senegal with the intercultural exhibition, Terang’Art II – A Celebration of Art and Hospitality. The culmination of 30 years of fellowship and education between the two regions, Terang’Art II features 20 contemporary artists from St. Louis and Senegal. The […]
Geospatially Rediscovering The Trail Of Tears In Missouri What role did early Missourians play in the Cherokee removal story? Is it a derisive story of racism, indifference, and greed? With funding from the MHC and the ToT Association, a great deal of new information has been uncovered. And a new story has developed. It is […]
Join Missouri Humanities for a FREE virtual event on Thursday, October 24, at 6:30 pm Central Time, celebrating Missouri’s 2024 Great Reads from Great Places authors! Registration is required. Maria Vasquez Boyd, producer/host of Artspeak Radio, will moderate a lively conversation with award-winning authors Pedro Martín (Mexikid: A Graphic Memoir) and Desideria Mesa (Bindle Punk […]
Come explore Missouri's oldest cemetery where visitors that night experience the stories of early pioneers of Ste. Genevieve by lantern light. Although close to Halloween, the intent of the Spirit Reunion is not to be "scary", but rather educational, as you'll see local people in period costume standing near "their final resting place" and talking […]
The American Civil War was one of many conflicts over national unification, secession, and independence that took place around the world from the 1840s to the 1870s. Many of the American war’s key issues – including nationalism, slavery and emancipation, the development of the liberal state, and the impact of industrialization upon warfare – were […]
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