News Release 373

MISSOURI STATE MUSEUM'S
"CABINET OF CURIOSITIES" EXHIBIT OPENS JULY 3

Volume 36-373

Contact: Sue Holst

(For immediate release)

573-751-6510

JEFFERSON CITY, MO, JUNE 23, 2008 -- The Missouri Department of Natural Resources will open an exhibit featuring many popular and unusual items on July 3 at Jefferson Landing State Historic Site in Jefferson City. The exhibit, "Missouri State Museum's Cabinet of Curiosities," will be housed in the Rozier Gallery of the Union Hotel at Jefferson Landing State Historic Site through September 2008. The exhibit will include many infamous items such as a model 1874 Gatling gun, a mastodon tusk, the shoes of Ella Ewing, considered the Missouri giantess at 8' 4'', and many other fascinating items relating to Missouri's history. This exhibit will show what a museum would have looked like 200 years ago.

Jefferson Landing State Historic Site is located at Jefferson and Water streets in Jefferson City. For more information on the exhibit, contact the Missouri State Museum office at 573-751-2854 or the Department of Natural Resources toll free at 800-334-6946 (voice) or 800-379-2419 (Telecommunications Device for the Deaf). For information on state parks and historic sites, visit the Web at www.mostateparks.com. 

For news releases on the Web, visit www.dnr.mo.gov/newsrel. For upcoming meetings and events for the state park system, visit the online calendar at www.mostateparks.com/events/events.htm.

 

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