Greatest Hits of Our History
For forty years, the museum has been preserving and protecting our history. Greatest Hits of Our History is the last in a series of three… Read More »Greatest Hits of Our History
For forty years, the museum has been preserving and protecting our history. Greatest Hits of Our History is the last in a series of three… Read More »Greatest Hits of Our History
The Western Illinois Museum Artifact of the Month for February 2015 is a photographic print of the 1858 ambrotype of Abraham Lincoln taken by Macomb… Read More »Abraham Lincoln’s Macomb Portrait
The Western Illinois Museum’s Artifact of the Month for January 2015 is a gavel made from two pieces of wood taken from the USS Constitution,… Read More »USS Constitution Gavel
An update on The Rezab Family Preservation Fund This past summer the museum established the Rezab Family Preservation Fund to aid the museum in managing… Read More »Collection News
The East Jackson Street branch of First Bankers Trust Company in Macomb and the Western Illinois Museum continue their partnership in bringing local history to… Read More »The History of Hats
The December 2014 Artifact of the Month is a pair of antique ice skates, approximately 100 years old. The skates are from the museum’s collection… Read More »Pair of Antique Ice Skates
The November Artifacts of the Month are two mortar and pestle sets donated to the museum in 1984 by the family of well-known Macomb resident,… Read More »Stites Mortars & Pestles
The October Artifact of the Month is a 1959 Philco Predicta swivel television set. Unique and futuristic looking, it is different from any other 1950s… Read More »A Television from the World of Tomorrow!
The September Artifact of the Month features the museum’s collection of doctor’s bags that once belonged to west central Illinois physicians. Each bag is made… Read More »Doctor making house: A collection of Doctor’s Bags