Journey Stories opens at the Overland Trail Museum in Sterling

The Overland Trail Museum is proud to announce the opening of the Smithsonian exhibition, “Journey Stories”. This exhibition shows how our evolving mobility changed a young nation. Accounts of travelers themselves express the hopes and promises of fresh starts, the grim realities of forced migrations and difficult journeys and the thrills of personal travel. The exhibit can be seen in the High Plains Education Center beginning April 5th, to be closing the weekend of May 17. Due to damage sustained in the September flood the main museum building will remain closed while construction is being completed. Visitors may enter the museum grounds through the courtyard gate by the main parking lot and proceed to the High Plains Education Center to view the exhibit. The village buildings and the High Plains Education Center will be open during regular business hours: Monday – Saturday, 9 a.m. – 5 p.m. Regular Museum admission will be charged. Please call the museum for more information and watch for information about special programs and events surrounding this exhibit: 522-3895.

Overland Trail Museum in Sterling hosting Smithsonian Exhibit October 14-November 23

The Overland Trail Museum in Sterling is offering a unique opportunity to area school children when the Smithsonian exhibit, Journey Stories, is exhibited.  The exhibit examines how transportation and migration helped build our nation, how it has changed us and how our mobile world looked to travelers along the way.

The Museum staff will be offering tours with hands-on activities FREE of charge to school children during the exhibit which will run October 14 - November 23, 2013. 

Unfortunately, transportation costs can often make it difficult for school groups to visit our facility.  We would like to offer your group/business an opportunity to help assure that our kids can experience this wonderful exhibit by helping to build a "scholarship" fund for transportation costs.  Transportation costs typically run about $150 - $200. per bus.  As we build this fund, we will be offering free or lower cost transportation to school groups and will credit your group or business as a partner with the Overland Trail Museum.

Thank you for considering a donation to this project.  Please contact Kay Rich or Perry Johnson at the Overland Trail Museum at 970-522-3895 for more information or to make your donation.