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Exhibits
NHC exhibits available for loan statewide
The Nebraska Humanities Council has access to many educational exhibits available for loan statewide. Once housed by the NHC, most are now housed by other organizations. The exhibits may be borrowed for short periods at no cost except shipping.
The application form that is linked in the left-hand column of this page is only for exhibits housed at the NHC offices. For all others, contact the appropriate site.
The NHC also is looking for organizations to house the remaining exhibits stored by the NHC. Organizations interested in housing an exhibit are responsible for the display and storage of the exhibit, as well as occasional collaboration with organizations interested in borrowing the exhibit for a short time. For more details, contact the NHC at (402) 474-2131 or e-mail nhc@nebraskahumanities.org
Exhibits housed at NHC offices
Picturing America. Twenty 24x36-inch posters. One box measuring 26x38x2 inches and weighing 30 pounds. Comes with teacher resource book. This exhibit tells the story of our country through great American artwork and allows the public access to American history and culture in a creative, new way. It provides large, high-quality reproductions of 40 selected masterpieces. These materials are designed to enhance the study of American history, social studies, language arts, literature and civics. The reproductions include paintings and photography. Among them are “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” by Grant Wood, “The Sources of Country Music” by Thomas Hart Benton, a photograph of Abraham Lincoln by Alexander Gardner, and “Freedom of Speech,” which Norman Rockwell created for The Saturday Evening Post. Voyages to Freedom: 500 Years of Jewish Life in Latin America and
the Caribbean.
William Wordsworth and the Age of English Romanticism. Six free-standing cardboard kiosks. Two boxes measuring 4x25x48 inches and weighing 26 pounds each. Comes with teacher's guide. Two copies. Through 24 full-color poster panels, this exhibit illuminates the life and work of the poet, his contemporaries in literature and art, and the extraordinary age in which they lived (1770-1850), juxtaposing reproductions of famous Romantic texts and manuscripts with visual art and images of the social and political history of the time. Exhibits available for loan from other locations
The Bill of Rights Poster Series, housed at Columbus City Hall in Columbus. Three free-standing cardboard kiosks. Two boxes measuring 4x27x28 inches and weighing 35 pounds each. Contact Mike Oglevie at 402-562-4243 or oglevie@megavision.com.
The Birth and Rebirth of the Omaha, housed at the Sarpy County Historical Society in Bellevue. Four two-sided table toppers. Two fiberboard carrying cases measuring 50x24x10 inches and weighing 69 pounds each, with handles. Contact Bob Serfass or Gary Iske at 402-292-1880 or sarpymuseum@prolinx.net. Created by the University of Nebraska State Museum in cooperation with the Omaha Tribe of Nebraska, this exhibit explores the tribe’s origins, the impact of the fur trade, reservation life, and rebirth beginning in the late 1800s.
The Blessings of Liberty (Copy 1), housed at Columbus City Hall in Columbus. Tells the story of America's commitment to liberty based upon a written constitution. Three free-standing cardboard kiosks or 12 wall-hung panels. One box measuring 4x24x48 inches and weighing 25 pounds. Contact Mike Oglevie at 402-562-4243 or oglevie@megavision.com. In this exhibit, the United States Constitution is described in the titles of its 12 posters: The Blessings of Liberty, The Articles of Confederation, A "Less Perfect" Union, The Constitutional Convention, The Founder’s Achievement, the Anti-Federalist Argument, Ratification, The Bill of Rights, A City Plan for the Constitution, The Principle of Federalism, The Supreme Law of the Land, To Ourselves and Our Posterity. The full-color posters use clear and striking images to attract viewers. The laminated posters can be hung on a wall individually or mounted on three free-standing cardboard kiosks.
The Blessings of Liberty (Copy 2), housed at the Elkhorn Valley Museum in Norfolk. Contact Amy Mancini-Marshall at 402-371-3886 or marshall500@msn.com.
The Blessings of Liberty (Copy 3), housed at the Sarpy County Historical Society in Bellevue. Contact Bob Serfass or Gary Iske at 402-292-1880 or sarpymuseum@prolinx.net.
The Blessings of Liberty (Copy 4), housed at the Heritage House Museum in Dunning. Contact Kathie Martindale at 308-538-2214 or jmartin@neb-sandhills.net.
Clara Colby: Up from the Footnotes, housed at the Beatrice Public Library in Beatrice. Three free-standing kiosks. Two boxes measuring 64x49x9 inches and 42x34x5 inches. No UPS shipping. Contact Laureen Riedesel at 402-223-3584 or lriedesel@beatrice.lib.ne.us. This exhibit tells the story of the founder of the Beatrice Public Library, who was also one of the most active and versatile participants in the women’s suffrage movement in the United States.
Diversity Endangered, housed at Millard West High School in Omaha. Explores biological diversity in an age of high technology, deforestation and pollution. Four free-standing cardboard kiosks. One box measuring 4x26x57 inches and weighing 39 pounds. Contact Pat Maas at 402-894-6056 or pmaas@mpsomaha.org. This exhibit examines the causes, consequences, and potential solutions to the loss of biological diversity. Fifteen posters display reproductions of color photographs, artists’ renderings and text exploring rain forest, coral reef, and wetland habitat.
The Dust Bowl, housed at the Boys Town Hall of
Martin Luther King Jr. and the Civil Rights Movement, housed at Edgerton Explorit Center in Aurora. One box measuring 6x21x72 inches and weighing 70 pounds. Contact the Edgerton Center at 877-694-4032. This exhibit features 40 black-and-white posters mounted on five four-sided cardboard kiosks each 20 inches wide by 70 inches high. Includes a timeline and photos, text, and quotations describing Rosa Parks, the Montgomery Bus Boycott, the Freedom Riders, and the March on Washington.
Places of Origin: Cities and Towns European Immigrants Left Behind, 1845-1914, housed at the Beatrice Public Library in Beatrice. Focuses on Irish, English, Germans, Italians, Poles and East European Jews. Poster exhibit, 24 wall-hung panels framed in plastic. Contact Laureen Riedesel at 402-223-3584 or lriedesel@beatrice.lib.ne.us.
Seeds of Change (Copy 1), housed at North Platte Valley Museum in Gering. Six free-standing cardboard kiosks. Two boxes measuring 5x34x40 inches and weighing 45 pounds each. Contact John Versluis at 308-436-5411 or npvm@actcom.net. The collision of two worlds came in the wake of Columbus’s voyages to the New World. This exhibit looks at the encounter from the point of view of five biological exchanges—sugar, maize, disease, the horse, and the potato—and their social and cultural effects.
Seeds of Change (Copy 2), housed at Wayne State College in Wayne. Contact Mark Hammer at 402-375-7043 or mahamme1@wsc.edu.
Tis Done! We Have Become a Nation, housed at Columbus City Hall in Columbus. Features reproductions of documents including the Declaration of Independence, the Articles of Confederation and the first printed drafts of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights. Text places documents in larger context of evolving systems of American government. Twenty framed posters. One box measuring 16x23x34 inches and weighing 50 pounds. Contact Mike Oglevie at 402-562-4243 or oglevie@megavision.com.
Women at Work: Nebraska, 1880-1940, housed at Northeast Community College in Norfolk. Twenty-five framed panels of photos and interpretive text suitable for wall hanging. Contact Michela Strom at 402-844-7122 or michela@northeastcollege.com.
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Black Women:
Achievements Against the Odds. Nineteen panels. Two boxes measuring 14x29x44
inches and weighing 54 pounds each.
Black women in America have had the double
obstacle of gender and race to overcome in attaining their
aspirations. That so many succeeded in fields as varied as science
and sports is a testament to their strength. Yet these achievements
have largely been unsung, and barely studied. This exhibit
represents 200 years of achievements in art, business, civil rights,
dance and entertainment, education, government and politics,
journalism, labor, literature, medicine, the military, music,
sciences and math, and sports. 
One box measuring 5x26x44 inches and weighing 33 pounds. To
commemorate the Quincentenary of Columbus’ historic voyage and the
expulsion of Jews from Spain, the Anti-Defamation League created an
exhibition of photographic reproductions of artifacts, documents and
pictures that depict the Jewish dimension of the encounter between
Europe and the New World. Presented within the framework of four
principal themes—migration, family and communal life, economy and
culture, and Jews and their neighbors—the 20 panels of this exhibit
can be presented in three Y-shaped kiosks and two entry panels. The
exhibit requires about 800 square feet for display.
Nebraska Aviation Hall of Fame, housed at Nebraska Aviators in Fairbury.
Contact Sandy Decker at 402-729-5390 or 
History in Omaha.
Four free-standing kiosks. Two wooden crates measuring 42x36x21 inches
and weighing 132 pounds each. Contact Thomas Lynch at 402-498-1186 or Phone 402-474-2131 or e-mail nhc@nebraskahumanities.org |
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