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Hello everyone. Our curator, JD, and summer youth employees, Greydon and Hannah hope you’ll visit the museum this summer. Thank you to Greydon for this fun video!

The summer theme at the museum is “Capturing History Through the Camera Lens” with a display of many devices which made use of photographic film. You will see many devices which make use of photographic… 

Here are a few interesting shots of women’s fashion in a 1927 Simpson’s catalogue.    

All the buildings (we have 10!) at the museum have had their spring clean and we are celebrating with our Summer Open House.  This message is from our president to members (and anyone interested in… 

A few years ago, regular contributor Alex Weller got curious about the old Windermere Cemetery. Located on the banks of Lake Windermere, the Cemetery was closed to new burials in 1954 except for families with plots already purchased. Graves were being dug in supposedly unused ground that wasn’t so unused after all. Burial records were incomplete, and no one quite knew who all was buried in the cemetery or where they were all located.

Our website was hosted by Microsoft Office 365 and written by volunteers using their Office 365 software.  Unfortunately, Microsoft has stopped providing that service in their subscription software service. “On March 9, 2015, Microsoft made… 

Some miscellaneous photos from our old website.      

This page is messed up and will be fixed soon – work in progress! What’s Happening at the Museum in 2018?? We have been forced to rebuild our website because our previous host and software…