Current Visiting Exhibits:
Step back in time with the Albert Clinton and Rose Olive Moore Collection at the Heritage Museum. This collection is a treasured donation from Elizabeth Callahan and Rosemary Carlsen, granddaughters of Albert and Rose Moore.
Through the lens of Albert Moore's photography, you can view life in early twentieth-century. Moore skillfully captured tender family moments shared between himself, Rose, and their children, Ramona and Dan. As Mayor and a successful Main Street entrepreneur, Moore played a vital role in Independence history. This legacy of civic engagement extended to his daughter Ramona, who supported and contributed to the Heritage Museum during her life.
The items on display include Rose Moore’s elegant 1904 wedding dress, mercantile goods from Moore’s store, and personal effects spanning the 1900s to the 1930s. Each artifact tells a part of the Independence story, including education, economic trade, social connections, and enduring family bonds.
Immerse yourself in the genuine moments preserved within the Albert Clinton and Rose Olive Moore Collection.
For some, the word “biotechnology” conjures images like super crops and cloned sheep—things created in a laboratory by manipulating DNA. While many equate biotechnology with genetic engineering and contemporary advancements in science, the practice of using organisms and biological processes as tools to make products like foods and medicines—biotechnology at its core—is an ancient one. Yeast has fueled the beer and wine industries for millennia, while scientists, in partnership with business, have worked to develop techniques that use microbes to prevent and cure illnesses over the last two centuries. From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine and Industry, a new traveling exhibition, special display, and online exhibition, explores some of the processes, problems, and potentials inherent in technologies that use life.
Curated by Diane Wendt and Mallory Warner from the National Museum of American History, From DNA to Beer presents four case studies: the recent use of recombinant DNA in drug production; the “miracle” of penicillin and consequences of its access and overuse; the relationship of microbes, mammals, and people inherent in serum therapy; and the work of Pasteur and his relationship to the brewing and wine-making industry. The special display, available in the History of Medicine Division Reading Room, includes a selection of artifacts from the collections of the National Museum of American History and the National Library of Medicine that illuminate relationships between science, industry, and the public in historical context.
​
The companion website allows remote visitors to explore the artifacts along with additional texts and documents to gain a better understanding of the historical period during which these products were created and distributed. From DNA to Beer online features the Digital Gallery, an assortment of digitized, historical books and images on topics covered in the exhibition, from the National Library of Medicine’s Digital Collections and Images from the History of Medicine sites.
Upcoming Exhibit:
Oregon's Botanical Landscape
Sept. 24 - Nov. 30, 2024
Oregon artist Frances Stilwell (1940–) left a successful career in science to devote herself to art. Working mainly in pastels, she documented Oregon’s native plants in their natural habitats. A selection of reproduced artwork created for her book, Oregon’s Botanical Landscape: An Opportunity to Imagine Oregon Before 1800, is on view in this breathtaking traveling exhibition, accompanied by Stilwell’s “grace notes” — her thoughts on the experience of creating the artwork, along with scientific information about the plants depicted. The artwork is organized into eight ecoregions (areas with similar environmental resources, such as geology, organisms, soil types). This traveling exhibition includes four reproduced artworks from each ecoregion.
​
Stilwell believes there is a strong connection between a sense of place and native plant imagery. “When we see these native plants in their native environments, we are assured that we are home in Oregon.”
.png)
The Heritage Museum is the proud host of the Independence Ghost Walk and Apparition Avenue. To learn about the event click the button.
A people without the knowledge of their past history, origin, and culture is like a tree without roots.
- Marcus Garvey
