Floyd County Museum holds open house

Patrons attend the open house at the Floyd County History Museum on Saturday. The event served as an opportunity to see the “1940s Childhood Nostalgia” exhibit, which was researched, designed and installed by the museum’s Junior Historians, Xander Graeser and Carter Haberkorn. To complement that exhibit, some light 1940s hors d’oeuvres were  served, including an all-in-one meal dish prepared by museum Director Jennifer Thiele.

The open house also served as a closing reception for “The Making of Minneapolis-Moline” exhibit, which will be coming down later this month. The new exhibit will be “Unforgettable Businesses,” and Thiele has plans to rearrange and redesign the entire main floor gallery at the museum to make room that display. That exhibit will include old historic business signs from throughout the county, brought out of storage and highlighted — telling the stories of those old Floyd County businesses.

— By James Grob