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In addition to its Idaho exhibits, the museum hosts 1-3 special exhibits each year on a variety of themes. Most are national and international touring exhibitions. A T-Rex Named Sue (2003) Columbian Mammoth (2003) Discovering Idaho: The World of Lewis and Clark (2004) The World of Giant Insects (2004) Space Journey (2005) Secrets of the Cave (2005)
This list of museums in Idaho contains museums which are defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
In 2022, the Children’s Museum of Idaho received nearly 100,000 visitors from 49 states: “Children learn best by seeing, touching and doing.”
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The museum also produces and hosts special temporary and traveling exhibits on a wide variety of historical and cultural subjects. The museum developed the J. Curtis Earl Exhibit at the Old Idaho State Penitentiary, featuring one of the nation's largest collections of historic arms and military memorabilia. The museum also developed and ...
Former Idaho State Museum director Ken Swanson explains some of the Thompson submachine guns, or “Tommy guns,” on display at the J. Curtis Earl Weapons Exhibit at the Old Idaho Penitentiary in ...
In May 1977, the Idaho State Board of Education adopted a resolution requesting that Governor John V. Evans designate the Idaho State University Museum as the Idaho Museum of Natural History (IMNH) and signed into law on July 1, 1977. In 1986, the Idaho State Legislature confirmed the IMNH as Idaho's official state museum of natural history.
The museum exhibits a variety of anthropological artifacts, ethnographic items, and natural history specimens, primarily from the Americas. Notable among them is the Simon Clovis cache of over thirty stone bifaces found in Idaho in 1961, [1] and a replica of the Huntington Canyon Mammoth, a nearly-complete Columbian mammoth skeleton unearthed in Utah in 1988. [2]