There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
Talk local history over a drink with friends, history professionals, and amateur historians at the Washington Street Tap Room between 5-7p, and hear a short program about the history of the Porter County Courthouse at 6p.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
The “X” in this image marks the location of the clock tower and offers a rare glimpse from the aftermath of the December 1934 courthouse fire. This image and several others were a 2014 gift of Chuck and Marian Worden.
What do you know about the iconic Porter County Courthouse? Join PoCo Muse Executive Director and Porter County Historian Kevin Matthew Pazour for a fun and informative presentation about the history of the courthouse at Pines Village Retirement Communities on Thursday, March 27, at 1p.
This presentation is free and open to the general public. Can’t make it on the day of the talk? Don’t worry. We will be video recording the program to share online at a later date.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
Join our living history crew to learn about maple sugar production as it would have been done centuries ago all over North America.
A United States map showing the differing routes that freedom seekers would take to reach freedom. Courtesy NPS.
Serena Ard will present "Duneland's Stories of the Underground Railroad." Learn about the area individuals and locations connected to the Underground Railroad, the difficulties in studying this topic, and the efforts to establish NWI as part of a national UGRR network.
This program of the Duneland Historical Society (DHS) is free and open to the public. All regular DHS programs take place at 1:30 in the afternoon inside the Hawthorne Park Community Building in The Town of Porter. For more information, contact Serena at (219) 983-9715.
Although not formally linked, the DHS and PoCo Muse have worked together regularly since the 1940s.
This circa 1926 photograph shows famed inventor and engineer Noah Amstutz (1864-1957) shoveling snow outside of his laboratory and home on Yellowstone Trail in Valparaiso.
Due to the mix of wind and winter weather, we will be closed to the public today, Sunday, February 16, 2025. We apologize for any inconvenience.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
Image: This January 1967 image of Wendell's Marathon in downtown Valparaiso offers a snowy glimpse of the site that is presently occupied by the Porter County Museum in 2025.
Due to the increased snowfall, we are closing earlier than expected at 3:30p on Wednesday, February 12, 2025.
We will be closed to the public on Tuesday, February 11, 2025.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
Sign up for this special curated tour with Visitor Experience Manager, Quinn Albert (pictured above). This in-depth tour will include additional local stories and feature other objects not normally on display. Don’t miss it, as no two curated tours will be the same.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
Join our friends at 2p on Sunday, January 12, to experience music, dance, and history from the interurban’s heyday.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
We will be closed on Tuesday, December 24, and Wednesday, December 25, for Christmas.
We will be closed on Tuesday, December 24, and Wednesday, December 25, for Christmas.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
Get into the holiday spirit by stopping in for a visit during the Holly Days celebration.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
Talk local history over a drink with friends, history professionals, and amateur historians at the Washington Street Tap Room between 5-7p, and hear a short program about the history of the Porter County Courthouse at 6p.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
Get a glimpse of the inner workings at our small, award-winning museum on this behind-the-scenes tour with the Executive Director.
We will be closed on Thursday, November 28, and Friday, November 29, for the Thanksgiving holiday.
We will be closed on Thursday, November 28, and Friday, November 29, for the Thanksgiving holiday.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
There's a good chance you will hear additional stories that don’t appear on the exhibit labels during this complimentary highlights tour.
Come interact with our favorite reenactors at Hebron’s Stagecoach Inn to learn about the Grand Army of the Republic (GAR), a veterans’ organization of former Union soldiers from the Civil War.
