| Exhibits |
| The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser
Memorial Museum contains two main exhibit rooms for displaying
historical artifacts from Morrison County. Exhibits also line the east
and west hallways. A rotating photo exhibit can be seen in the Gordon
Rosenmeier Research Room. Following is a more detailed explanation of
each of these exhibit areas. |
| Z.
N. Barnes Exhibit Room |
| The Z.N. Barnes Exhibit Room
displays various aspects of business and industry in Morrison County.
The room was named for Z.N. Barnes, an employee of the Pine Tree Lumber
Company. He was also a photographer and captured many wonderful
pictures of the county and his family. Staff of the museum also call
this room the Logging Room because of its display of logging photos and
artifacts (including a 'dead head' log pulled from the Mississippi
River long after the logging era in Morrison County). Other industries
represented in the room include Larson Boat Works, Kiewel Brewery,
local creameries, agriculture, milling companies, and water power. |
| J.
C. Patience Exhibit Room |
| The J.C. Patience Exhibit Room is
also called the Cultural Baggage Room because upon entering, the
visitor encounters an Ojibwe bandolier bag and an immigrant's traveling
bag. The room has a wide variety of artifacts on display that show how
people in the county lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth
centuries. There are personal items, such as women's hats, men's
clothing accessories, medical goods, and hair-care items. This room
also shows kitchen utensils and laundry artifacts, as well as toys, a
model steam engine, and a concertina. Photographs capturing daily life
are on display in the J.C. Patience Room. |
| Gordon
Rosenmeier Room Photo Exhibit |
| The Gordon Rosenmeier Room serves
as the research area of the museum. It contains three exhibit cases
that are changed periodically, at least once a year. Photos or
artifacts based on a particular topic are chosen from the MCHS
collections. These may or may not match the topic for the Showcase
Exhibit (see below). Exhibits have included wedding photos, photos of
children and small fiber pieces. |
| West
& East Hall Exhibits |
The west hallway of the museum
displays natural history and American Indian artifacts from the
museum's collections. Beaded articles and stone arrowheads and tools
are part of the Indian display. Among the natural history artifacts are
native stones, a cross-section of a white pine tree, and a stuffed
beaver.
The east hallway of the museum serves as the Showcase Exhibit area.
This exhibit is changed at least once a year and highlights particular
topics using artifacts from the collections. Past Showcase Exhibits
have included Prohibition, County Schools, Nathan Richardson, Music,
and New Acquisitions. |
| Exhibits are self-guided at The
Weyerhaeuser Museum. Visitors may view these exhibits any time during
our regular museum hours.
To make arrangements for a guided tour, see our Tours
page. |
