Dear Blog Readers,

I will send those of you that I know an email to let you know that the Director's Blog is back!  The administration of the website has gone through some transitions.  I will not be able to add photography for a couple of more months, but after that we will have complete control of our content.

I hope that all of you have seen the amazing changes around here, or are planning a trip.  We have created or redesigned every exhibit in the museum.  Thanks to wonderful donations we have recently opened the Starzinger Family Research Library.  The walls of the library have 11 new giant exhibit cases on the other side.  This enabled us to tighten up our interpretation, to put rare collections behind locked glass, and to reinterpret the large Main Gallery Space.  In doing this, the Big School (First Church Building) Gallery was also reinterpreted with St. Paul Wittenberg, MO in about one half of the space; the "Chair, Chest, and Chalice" exhibit has a nice place in the Big School; and we have all of our musical instruments collection in a celebration of Lutheran music exhibit.  The central part of the Big School Gallery will be our transition space for traveling exhibitions. 

The Starzinger Family Research Library is open and thriving.  We have near daily researchers and requests for information.  It is so wonderful to have all of our resources in one place.  Ken Craft's YEARS of hard work, combined with donations of time, treasure, and talent from our patrons and staff have created a state-of-the-art research environment.

Come and see us! 

Carla L. Jordan, Director