Skip to content

Museum Exhibits

Blog

1 item

The Tilbury Flash on display at Central Illinois Regional Airport
The McLean County Museum of History’s largest artifact, the Tilbury Flash racing plane, has off...

Blog Post

Finding Aids

16 items

Evergreen Cemetery Walk – Miller
In the 1990s, Amy Miller was a member of the Bloomington-Normal Junior Women’s Club, a service ...

Finding Aid

Exhibit: "A Matter of Life and Death"
This collection of Medical oral histories was gathered by the McLean County Historical Society ...

Finding Aid

Exhibit: 9-11: McLean County Responds
Staff prepared these materials for the short-term 2002 exhibit “9-11: McLean County Responds.” ...

Finding Aid

Exhibit: A Deadly Deception: The Asbestos Tragedy in McLean County

Finding Aid

Exhibit: A Turbulent Time: Perspectives of the Vietnam War
Guest curator Ross Kennedy and staff member Susan Hartzold prepared these materials for the 200...

Finding Aid

Exhibit: Come & Get It! The Way We Ate 1830-2008
This collection contains research compiled by Dr. Robert Dirks, guest curator and professor eme...

Finding Aid

Exhibit: Greening of the Prairie: Irish Settlement in McLean County
Staff, interns, and volunteers researched and prepared the temporary exhibit “The Greening of t...

Finding Aid

Exhibit: Growing up in the Fifties
The McLean County Museum of History presented this exhibit in 2001. This collection contains tr...

Finding Aid

Exhibit: Journey through the Great Depression
Staff worked with guest curator Illinois State University professor Sandra D. Harmon to create ...

Finding Aid

Exhibit: Just Corn: The 'Amaizing' Story
The Museum exhibit, “Just Corn: The ‘Amaizing’ Story,” opened in 1997. It was curated by then-M...

Finding Aid

Exhibit: Made in McLean County
The McLean County Museum of History presented this exhibit in 1999. This collection contains th...

Finding Aid

Exhibits: Miscellaneous
This collection contains outlines for temporary exhibits featured at the McLean County Museum o...

Finding Aid

Gray, Vern
Vern Gray (December 19, 1897- June 28, 1972) was a former curator of the McLean County Historic...

Finding Aid

Koos, Greg Collection
The Greg Koos collection contains published and unpublished works by Greg Koos, former executiv...

Finding Aid

McLean County Museum of History Asian Indian History Project
The McLean County Asian Indian History Project was begun in the early 2000s to research and doc...

Finding Aid

Tilbury Flash
The Tilbury Flash is a single-seat American racing monoplane designed and built in the 1930s by...

Finding Aid

Videos

3 items

A Deadly Deception: The Asbestos Tragedy in McLean County

Video

Growing up Gen X

Video

We all Played Together: A Historical Account of African- American Musicians

Video