Time is fleeting to view Pieces of the Past quilt exhibit
Time is running out! Pieces of the Past: Quilts Tell a Story is open through August 2017, but the time will fly by!
Register now for Kids History Day
Here's a fun way for your kids to spend a day in August: Kids History Day! Ages 8 and older learn about life before electricity.
Fourth Friday means Vintage Board Games
People are talking about our Vintage Board Game Nights! Every fourth Friday of the month, join us for old-fashioned fun!
History Speaks: An Introduction to the History & Usage of Ginseng
Interested in ginseng? Our next History Speaks topic will focus on this fascinating - and valuable - root and its local ties.
Yawkey House Gardens calendar is filling up!
Post date: 06/14/2017Only a few weekends remain to book your wedding in our beautiful Gardens!
MCHS is a Blue Star Museum again this summer
Post date: 06/09/2017The Marathon County Historical Society is participating in the Blue Star Museum program for the second summer.
Rural Electrification exhibit is open, through November 2019
Post date: 05/09/2017Our new exhibit is open now! We invite everyone to visit to see how electricity moved into rural areas of Marathon County in the 1930s and '40s, and how life changed when it did.
More Vintage Board Game Nights planned!
Post date: 04/12/2017The first Vintage Game Night was a hit, so we decided to host more!
Crowds enjoy Houses in Bloom
Post date: 02/03/2017We had to add weekend tours to accommodate visitors to our second annual Houses in Bloom event March 7 to 12.
"Pieces of the Past: Quilts Tell a Story" exhibit extended through August 2017
Post date: 10/02/2016
EXTENDED! Our quilt exhibit will be on view through August 2017 at the Woodson History Center, 410 McIndoe St., Wausau. “Pieces of the Past: Quilts Tell a Story” tells the local stories behind more than a dozen antique quilts from our Collections. Click Here For The Exhibit Home Page.
Fromm fox fur coat added to Wisconsin 101 online ‘museum’
Post date: 01/18/2017A silver fox fur produced in the 1930s by the Fromm brothers of Hamburg in western Marathon County is now included in Wisconsin 101, the online museum of state history.
Full list of History Speaks topics for 2017
Post date: 12/01/2016Curators Linda Forbess and Kathy Volkmann have been busy lining up speakers for the 2017 History Speaks series. Here's the full list for the year:
We are now included in the WI 101 online museum!
Post date: 11/30/2016Archivist Ben Clark compiled the history of the Employers Mutual Audiometer, and the “exhibit” is now live at the Wisconsin 101 website.
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