Small Museum, Big Ideas
Gertrude Miller (1909-2005) of Detroit Michigan, married Louis Miller (1899-1990) at the Statler Hotel in Detroit on June 30th, 1929. Lou was a store owner in Marine City. They honeymooned in Banff and Lake Louise in Alberta Canada. Banff is a beautiful city at the …
Collections care starts with good record keeping. Without it, the stories behind the objects would be lost. The objects in my museum’s collection have very sparse records. Some objects have numbers and others don’t. Without the volunteers who accepted them, there’d be no way to …
The Marine City Museum building was built in 1847 as a school by Eber Brock Ward for his sister Emily to become a teacher. Since then the building has been relocated and repurposed as the village hall, a church, a firehouse, event venue, hospital, a …