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As part of programming around the “Americans” exhibit at the Watkins Museum, Haskell will host a panel discussion about Indigenous representation, featuring prominent Native leaders and academics.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
A traveling Smithsonian exhibit opening this weekend at the Watkins will provide a looking glass for issues of Native representation that hit as close to home as Haskell and Arrowhead Stadium.
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The Watkins Museum’s annual Civil War on the Border series of local history programming is set to kick off next week with a focus on religion of the era.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
Two store kitties celebrated their gotcha day, the library’s summer book sale got underway, Remi the adoptable dog got to go for a walk and more Friday in downtown Lawrence.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
More than three dozen Christian churches founded in Lawrence prior to 1900 will be featured in a new temporary exhibition at the Watkins Museum.
Nathan Kramer / Lawrence Times
The Watkins Museum of History is celebrating a successful stained glass window restoration project — a community-funded effort to maintain a local historical landmark.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
The Watkins Museum will soon be the first Kansas site to host a traveling Smithsonian exhibit, “Americans,” after organizers jointly decided to move it from the Haskell museum.
Molly Adams / Lawrence Times
A Watkins Museum of History project on the Underground Railroad was completed before the federal grant funding it was terminated, and the Lawrence community has helped the museum recoup the $13,000 that the feds didn’t disburse.
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Watkins Museum of History will host a public celebration of half a century serving Lawrence and Douglas County.
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A new exhibit at Watkins Museum of History will take visitors through Bert Nash Community Mental Health Center’s history since its inception in 1950.
