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 welcomes two area historic interpreters, Estelle Bath and Nancy Chu, to give online workshops on creating Victorian Tree Decorations. You’ll find them on Our Front Porch through the Museum’s YouTube channel on Saturdays, December 5th and 12th at 9:30 am. They will guide you through making five Victorian style decorations for your tree. The workshop is best suited for children… Read More »Victorian Tree Decorations
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 welcomes two local historic interpreters, Estelle Bath and Nancy Chu, to give online workshops on creating Victorian Tree Decorations. You’ll find them on Our Front Porch through the Museum’s YouTube channel on Saturdays, December 5th and 12th at 9:30 am. They will guide you through making five Victorian style decorations for your tree. The workshop is… Read More »Victorian Tree Decorations
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
Tate and Sharon Lindahl The Western Illinois Museum is pleased to share a recent performance by Sally Weisenberg and Don Berbaum recorded on their front porch! We share the pre-recorded video with you from Our Front Porch on Sunday, December 20 at 7:00 pm on the Museum’s YouTube channel. In between the sets of music,… Read More »Sally Weisenberg and Don Berbaum
Join us for a Gratitude Party, a collective celebration which will be held live on Saturday, January 9th, at 7:00 pm. Streamed live on the Museum’s Facebook page and YouTube channel, guests will share a gratitude story about something or someone that made a difference to them this past year. In addition to individual and… Read More »Gratitude Party
