Experience
a sense of wonder as A Century of
Discovery takes you back in time to the early years of the Neville Public
Museum, when display cabinets were filled with curiosities to ponder and
provoke conversation. This exhibit celebrates the upcoming centennial of the
Neville Public Museum of Brown County as a place of learning and inspiration,
through the display of rarely exhibited objects from the museum’s permanent
collection. Over the course of
this year, different objects are being rotated in and out of this exhibit.
The
origins of the Neville Public Museum of Brown County began in 1915, when nine
local women formed the Green Bay Art Club and held a modest exhibit of rare and
important objects owned by area residents. From this humble beginning in the
basement of former Kellogg Library on Jefferson St., the museum’s permanent
collection today includes over 100,000 three-dimensional objects, approximately
one million images that represent our local and regional communities,
and over four million feet of 16mm news film and home movies.
While
strolling through the gallery, the visitor is taken back to the dawn of the 20th
Century when “cabinets of curiosities” was the typical exhibition style. In this exhibit wood and glass display
cases are filled with the museum rarely displayed artifacts, arranged in
categories of: natural history, archaeology, ethnology, history, decorative
arts and fine art. The visitor is encouraged to consider what they can learn
from these objects. Why are the objects important? Why have they been preserved and why should they continue to
be preserved? Whatever is discovered, hopefully will inspire the public to
participate in their pubic museum’s exciting future, and its continuing legacy
as an important cultural asset for the residents of this region and beyond.
Membership offers many great benefits — free admission, gift shop discounts, VIP status at events, and more! - See more at: www.nevillepublicmuseum.org/friends-of-the-neville-memberships
