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For Immediate Release: Clark County Historical Museum Opens Boomer! Exhibit

Exhibit Run Dates: NOW Through April 30, 2009

Where: CCHM, 1511 Main Street, Vancouver, WA 98660

Contact Person: Susan Tissot 993-5679 or tissots@pacifier.com

 

CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM OPENS BOOMER!

 

 

Calling all hipsters! Are you looking for a groovy experience? Whether you love them or love to hate them, the Clark County Historical Museum invites you to explore their new Boomer! exhibit. The exhibit takes an up close and personal look at how the Baby Boomer generation has transformed American culture during the 1950’s, 1960’s and 1970’s.

 

Boomer! includes photographs, clothing and other 3-dimensional artifacts from the generation. Also featured in the exhibit is a retro 1960’s living room where museum visitors can sit down and relax while watching commercials and public service announcements from the 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s, and a film clip of Vancouver’s First Citizen of 2007, JD White, in his 1980’s television debut in which he tried to bring back to fashion the Men’s Leisure Suit. Leisure Suits are obviously included in this very fun retro exhibit. Visitors to the exhibit are invited to take a Boomer Quiz and/or participate in a Boomer! exhibit scavenger hunt which is designed for family enjoyment. Boomer! runs through April 30, 2009.

 

The public is invited to join in on the fun and help the museum to continue to document the boomer generation. Although the exhibit is complete, museum staff are still looking for the following items to enhance the museum’s collection: a 1960 birth control pill container, a 1960’s Easy Bake Oven in its original box and complete with utensils, and ticket stubs or other items from the 1969 Sky River Concert held in Washougal, WA.

 

First Thursday Museum After Hours Lectures related to the Boomer! exhibit:

 

August 7, 2008, 7 PM Matt Love, Author and Educator, will speak on: The Far out Story of Vortex 1

 

October 2, 2008, 7 PM Dr. Laurie Mercier, WSU Vancouver History Professor and author will speak on: The Forgotten Decade: A Social History of the 1970’s.

 

November 6, 2008, 7 PM Roger Hart, Former & Current Manager of Paul Revere & The Raiders, From Hockinson to Hollywood: the Local Music Scene.

 

For more information contact the Clark County Historical Museum at (360) 993-5679 or visit: www.cchmuseum.org.

 

CLARK COUNTY HISTORICAL MUSEUM INFORMATION: The Clark County Historical Museum is housed in Vancouver’s 1909 Carnegie Library which is located at 1511 Main St. Vancouver, WA 98660. Regular museum hours are: Tuesday – Saturday 11-4 PM. Admission rates apply. The museum is also open first Thursday evenings from 5-9 PM for Museum After Hours.  A wheelchair accessible entrance to the museum is located on the east side of the museum building accessed from 16th street.

Woven History: Native American Basketry
December 2, 2004 - Ongoing

On December 2, 2004 we celebrated the release of our 98 page, full color Woven History: Native American Basketry publication and the opening of our exhibit by the same name. The publication and the exhibit showcase the amazing baskets in our museum collection.

Woven History, the publication was made possible by a generous grant from the Meyer Memorial Trust and also a very generous donation of time and labor by the book’s editor and authors. "What the community needs to understand is that this phenomenal collection of baskets belongs to them," stated museum director Susan Tissot. "We hold the museum collection in public trust for the people of Clark County. The book is a tribute to the history and resources of Clark County." In 2005 Woven History was awarded the Washington Museums Association Excellence in Publications Award. Woven History, the exhibit was sponsored by a grant from the National Park Service, the Colf Family Foundation, the Kelso Sales Barn and the Anderson Glass Company. Due to popular demand, the exhibit run dates have been extended until further notice. Contact the museum for more information.

Related Resources

 

We have a mystery for you to solve but to do it you must get involved. Look around town and you will see the answers to our mystery. A successfully solved puzzle will earn you a FREE softbound copy of Naming Clark County. To claim your prize, return your completed solutions to our Architectural Scavenger Huntto the Clark County Historical Museum.

Stop by the Museum for your scavenger hunt form or click here for the small grayscale scavenger hunt form (744KB))

Click here for the large colored scavenger hunt form (1MB)