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Kibbe Museum on Illinois Stories

Posted by ⋅ March 31, 2011

Mark McDonald recently visited the Kibbe to learn about our acquisition of the collection from the Museum of Funeral Customs.  This story is focused on the MFC collection, how it came to happen, how we did it, and future plans for exhibition.  The show airs on Thursday, 31 March at 7:30pm and Friday, 1 April … Continue reading »

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  • My name is Ruth and I am the Museum employee who scanned in most of the pictures of the World War II exhibit. Now that I have learned to scan the images the next step in my training is to work on posting articles to the web site. Below is one of my favorite images from the World War II project, I have enjoyed so much working on the World War II exhibit that I have started another project.  The new project is about Colusa, IL     Coming Soon!

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We will close for the season at Christmas and reopen in March, 2012.

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