FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: Centennial Village, 1475 A St., is hosting a Civil War Living History event on Saturday, Sept. 19 and Sunday, Sept. 20, from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Museum visitors will observe the same daily offerings typical to the museum, but will also witness a...
Year: 2015
Potato Day Festival Scheduled for Saturday, Sept. 12, 2015
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: September 4, 2015 Potato Day Festival Scheduled for Saturday, September 12 GREELEY, CO-- Nearly 2,000 people are expected to attend this year’s Potato Day to participate in a tradition that’s a “spud-tacular” part of Greeley history. This year’s...
Pets ‘n’ Popsicles Event Returns to Centennial Village
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: July 31, 2015 Pets ‘n’ Popsicles returns to Centennial Village, 1475 A St., for the second year in a row. The event, which celebrates farm animals and pets, runs from Friday, August 7 through Sunday, August 16, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. daily....
How Does Everything Fit? Part II
Exhibit Features Three dimensional representations of the exhibit spaces and features (i.e. artifacts, furniture, interactive stations, wall panels, etc.) not only help the exhibits team to determine an exhibit’s layout, but also give us the chance to imagine new...
BUILD! Frontiers Exhibit: How Does Everything Fit?
Producing awesome exhibits is, of course, the main goal of the exhibits team at the Greeley History Museum. Each exhibit starts its life as a concept about three years before its doors open. The idea grows and develops as the team dives into artifact research, image...
The Hazel E. Johnson Research Center: What We Do
What is an archivist? When many people hear the word archivist they may find themselves wondering what exactly is an archivist and what do they do? Archivists are professionals who are specially trained in preserving original two-dimensional materials (e.g....
Historic Meeker Home Museum Opens for the Season
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 3, 2015 The Meeker Home Museum, 1324 9th Ave., opens for the 2015 season on Saturday, April 4, from 11am to 4pm and is open Saturdays through October 31. Visitors to the Meeker Home tour this 1870 two-story adobe brick home with a costumed...
Baby Animal Days Returns to Centennial Village, April 3-12
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: April 2, 2015 What better way to kick off spring than visiting with a bunch of baby animals? Centennial Village, 1475 A St., is introducing its newest resident animals to the public, April 3 through 12, with the return of its annual Baby Animal...
Twenty-One Area Residents Receive President’s Volunteer Service Award
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 27, 2015 In 2014, the City of Greeley Museums had 137 volunteers donate over 11,000 hours of service. Twenty-one of those volunteers were recently presented with the President’s Volunteer Service Award (PVSA) for 2014 “It’s an incredible...
Greeley’s First “Selfie?”
Here’s a photo that was included in a collection of 338 glass plate negatives, 1 antique dental tool, and 13 lantern slides donated by Dr. John A. Weaver Jr. in 1991. The glass plate negatives included in this donation depict the Weaver family’s house, dental office, and various trips to Estes Park and all around the country in the early 1900s. This particular photo depicts Dr. John A. Weaver Sr. and his wife Emma Cecile Rochat Weaver a few years after they were married on June 1, 1900.