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3-28-23

Exhibition Rotation

This story originally appeared in the Winter 2023 print edition of the Tennessee State Museum Quarterly Newsletter. Two areas of our permanent galleries have exciting new updates. The First Peoples exhibition features a new display focused on the Southeastern Indian Salt Works at Sulphur Dell. Museum staff worked with Native American stakeholders to develop this display. Sulphur Dell Display at Tennessee State Museum In the Mississippian period, salt was an important trade item. The o... Read More
Posted by Stephanie Davis
Exhibitions Newsletter

3-24-23

New Acquisitions to the Museum's Collection: Winter 2023

This story originally appeared in the Winter 2023 print edition of the Tennessee State Museum Quarterly Newsletter. Silver Spoon, about 1800 With this recent donation, the Museum gained one of the oldest pieces of Tennessee-made silver in its collection. Family documents note that this spoon was made in Nashville around 1800 for William and Rhoda Byrne, who lived in Roane and Putnam Counties in the early nineteenth century. While its maker is unidentified, the spoon is engraved with the Byr... Read More
Posted by Stephanie Davis

3-7-23

Collection Highlight: Scopes Evolution Trial Archive

This story originally appeared in the Winter 2023 print edition of the Tennessee State Museum Quarterly Newsletter. Scopes Evolution Trial Archive, 1920s  The Museum recently acquired an exceptional photographic archive related to the Scopes Evolution Trial, more commonly known as the Scopes "Monkey" Trial. Formally “The State of Tennessee v. John Thomas Scopes,” the trial took place in Dayton, Tennessee, as a challenge to the Butler Act, a law that made the teaching of huma... Read More
Posted by Stephanie Davis
Museum Collection Newsletter Tennessee History

3-6-23

50 Years and 50 Women: Celebrating the Impact and Legacy of Title IX in Tennessee

Note: Mary Ellen Pethel will discuss Title IX, Pat Summitt, and Tennessee’s Trailblazers on Saturday, March 11 at 10:30 a.m. at the Museum as part of the TN Writers | TN Stories: Author Talks at the State Museum series. The reading will be preceded by a reception beginning at 10:00 a.m. with coffee and cookies by Christie's Cookies. Reservations are requested here. The series is presented in partnership with Humanities Tennessee, Chapter 16 and Vanderbilt University ... Read More
Women's History

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