Events at the Anna Bemis Palmer Museum
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Come to the Anna Bemis Palmer Museum on Saturday, April 27th from 1-2pm to learn how to draw Maze Art! Supplies will be provided and all ages are welcome to participate.
This class will be taught by York resident Eric Eckert, who has broken the Guinness Book of World Records for the "Largest Hand-Drawn Maze" three times! The most recent submission was more than a thousand square feet, took 160 hours and used up 160 sharpies! |
Join us for a free concert at the York City Auditorium (612 North Nebraska Avenue) on February 17th at 1PM.
Special guest, the 1st Nebraska Volunteers Brass Band, will be wearing Union infantry uniforms while playing musical arrangements from the Civil War on authentic Civil War-era instruments. This performance will also include a narration sharing Civil War stories. This 15-member musical ensemble, based out of Omaha, represents the original 1st Nebraska Volunteer Infantry Regiment from 1861-1862 and has performed at several events and festivals, keeping alive the wonderful heritage of Civil War music and brass bands. Several members in the group hold graduate degrees in music. |
WW2 POW Camps in NebraskaCome join us on January 27th from 2-3PM at the Anna Bemis Palmer Museum (520 North Grant Avenue, York) to learn about a wildly overlooked chapter of Nebraska History, the German-captured Prisoners of War that were held all throughout Nebraska and the Midwest.
Speaker Micah Huyser will cover the origins of why POWs were sent to the heartlands, and what life was like once they arrived. One of the primary camps in the region, Camp Atlanta, housed a total of 4,500 POW at one given time, but saw over 100,000 POWs through its gate between 1943 to 1946. It managed 16 satellite camps around South Central Nebraska and Northern Kansas. Micah Huyser is the Executive Director at the Nebraska Prairie Museum in Holdrege Nebraska. He is on the boards for the Nebraska Museum Association and Mountain-Plains Museums Association. |
"Vibe at 5" at the Palmer Museum
November 16, 2023 4:30-6:00pm CALLING ALL VETERANS!
If you're a veteran and interested in sharing your story or answering questions from museum visitors please reach out to us via our contact page - we would love to have you in attendance for Vibe at 5 on the Thursday after Veteran's Day. We will have a hot cocoa bar plus patriotic treats! |
Anna Bemis Palmer Museum
520 North Grant Avenue
York, Nebraska 68467 402-366-2788 |