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| For more information about any of the events listed below please call the Museum at 319-643-5301 or email hoover.webmaster@nara.gov. | |
Celebrate 50 Years! |
The Museum celebrates 50 years with: Creating the Legacy: 50 Years of the Hoover Library-Museum Dining with the President Ideas of Lincoln and Hoover |
| Three Illinois Women during the Civil War June 1, 2012, 12:00 p.m. |
Betty Carlson Kay will perform a 40 minute show portraying three women during the Civil War. The cost for this is $25 and includes a catered lunch, the presentation, an autographed copy of The Civil War from A to Z: Two Points of View by Kay and free admission to the museum galleries. Please call 319-643-5301 for tickets. |
| CSI: Investigating Hoover July 11 or 18 or 25 or August 1, 2012 |
For children ages 9 - 12. Please contact the Hoover Association for more information, 319-643-5327. |
Movie Nights, Wednesday Evenings |
Free admission beginning at 5 p.m. and a feature length movie from 1962 to celebrate our 50 year anniversary. Movies will begin at 7 p.m. on Wednesday July 11,18, 25 and August 1, 8, and 15. |
| Book Talk July 14, 2012 |
Author Glen Jeansonne speaking about his new book - The Life of Herbert Hoover: Fighting Quaker, 1928-1933. This is the latest in the Hoover biography series. |
| Pivot Point: American Foreign Policy at Mid Century July 28, 2012 |
A conference featuring four scholars on foreign policy in the 1930s and 1940s. Please call 319-643-5301 or email the Hoover Museum for more information. |
| Hoover's Hometown Days August 3-4, 2012 |
A celebration throughout the town of West Branch, the Hoover National Park, the Hoover Association and the Hoover Museum. Hooverball, entertainment, food and fireworks. |
| 50th Anniversary Celebration August 10, 2012 |
August 10, 1962 the Herbert Hoover Presidential Museum was dedicated. Free admission to the museum and anniversary cake served to all! |
| Recalling 50 Years: An Afternoon of Conversations, August 11, 2012 | 1:00 p.m. Free program open to the public featuring former directors John Fawcett, Richard Norton Smith and Timothy Walch. |
| A Cowboy Christmas November 17, 2012- January 2, 2013 |
An exhibit featuring 20 trees decorated to cowboy themes. |
| Christmas Past Weekend November 30 - December 2, 2012 |
Music, horse-drawn rides, food and entertainment at the Hoover Museum, Hoover Historic Site and throughout the town of West Branch. |
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The Museum is open from 9-5 daily (closed only on Thanksgiving, Christmas and New Years Days). For more information please call (319) 643-5301. |
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