Exhibits Open at History Center

Geneva History Center will open two new museum exhibitions that highlight the importance of communication.

In Other Words: A History of Communication in Geneva
Discover the historical background behind familiar concepts of communication. Included are five interactive stations for adults and children (five years and up) that explore postcards, post office, morse code, old-time radio and moving pictures.

Every Story Counts: Everyday Stories from Everyday Genevans
In celebration of Geneva's 175th anniversary, Geneva History Center partnered with StoryCorps to collect oral history interviews from local Genevans. This special interactive lobby exhibition provides listening stations and touchscreen to play audio clips from this partnership.

The exhibitions opening will kick off with a special lecture, "Taking Postcards Seriously," at 2 p.m. The lecture will be presented by Christine Pyle of the Lake County Discovery Museum's Curt Teich Postcard Archives, the world's largest publicly held repository of postcards and the materials used to produce them.  She will discuss the beginning of the postcard business in the U.S. and how postcards document late 19th- and 20th-century life and communication.