Western Illinois Museum

Since 2002, Western Illinois Museum curates three or four exhibition that reflect the unique history of the region.

Mission

The mission of the Museum in operating its museum, library and archives is to collect, preserve, study, interpret and exhibit significant materials relating to the region of Western Illinois and to provide related educational services for the purpose of increasing and enriching public knowledge of Western Illinois.

Each year the museum accumulated more and more artifacts that represented life in the region. The collection grew to over 6,000 historic artifacts from the region including farm implements, barbed wire, the Mercer Eph's General Store, music and musical instruments, animal traps and furs, a wide variety of things made of clay, radios, quilts, clothing, hand carved models, and vinyl records.

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