Taking Questions is a discussion series held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. The first program will be held on October 21st as part of the museum’s ongoing Our Front Porch programs, where informal learning and good conversation are at the fore. Guests can attend in-person at… Read More »Taking Questions with Larry Balsamo
The Western Illinois Museum welcomes Illinois Humanities Road Scholar, Cynthia Clampitt for a thought-provoking program on the long history of corn. The program will take place online live on the museum’s YouTube Channel on Thursday, October 22 at 7:00 pm. A brief question and answer session will follow her presentation. How to join us online… Read More »How Corn Changed Itself and Then Changed Everything Else
Taking Questions is a discussion series held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Programs are held on Our Front Porch (indoors!), where informal learning and good conversation are at the fore. In this series, the museum welcomes some of the area’s most accomplished Historians and Political Scientists to lead… Read More »Taking Questions with Ute Chamberlin
The Western Illinois Museum continues its documentary film series online! The Friday screenings will be at 7:00 pm and Sunday screenings will be at 2:00 pm. The November featured documentary is the Academy Award nominee Best Feature Documentary and Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award film, Troublesome Creek: A Midwesterner. This film, by Jeanne… Read More »Troublesome Creek
The Western Illinois Museum continues its documentary film series online! The Friday screenings will be at 7:00 pm and Sunday screenings will be at 2:00 pm. The November featured documentary is the Academy Award nominee Best Feature Documentary and Sundance Grand Jury Prize and Audience Award film, Troublesome Creek: A Midwesterner. This film, by Jeanne… Read More »Troublesome Creek
Taking Questions is a discussion series held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Programs are held on Our Front Porch (indoors!), where informal learning and good conversation are at the fore. In this series, the museum welcomes some of the area’s most accomplished Historians and Political Scientists to… Read More »Taking Questions with Keith Boeckelman
Taking Questions is a discussion series held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Programs are held on Our Front Porch (indoors!), where informal learning and good conversation are at the fore. In this series, the museum welcomes some of the area’s most accomplished Historians and Political Scientists to lead… Read More »Taking Questions with Richard Filipink
The Western Illinois Museum is pleased to welcome the internationally acclaimed vocal band, Windborne, on Friday, December 11, 2020, at 5:30 pm. Our Front Porch (inside the museum!) is the perfect setting to hear their new project: Song on the Times: A Songbook and Album for Social Struggle. Windborne’s four singers craft a stunningly powerful… Read More »Our Front Porch with musical guest Windborne
The Western Illinois Museum is pleased to welcome Dave Barkley to Our Front Porch on Sunday, December 13 at 7:00 pm. The Macomb native and Los Angeles based composer, producer, and musician will join us “virtually” to celebrate the release of his latest composition, Illinois Song. Barkley intended the new composition to be a tribute… Read More »Dave Barkley’s Illinois Song
Taking Questions is a discussion series held on the first and third Wednesdays of the month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm. Programs are held on Our Front Porch (indoors!), where informal learning and good conversation are at the fore. In this series, the museum welcomes some of the area’s most accomplished Historians and Political Scientists to lead… Read More »Taking Questions with Tim Roberts
