Chippewa Valley Museum

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• The Chippewa Valley Museum is an accredited, independent, nonprofit regional history organization founded in 1964. The original museum building opened to the public in 1974. The Chippewa Valley Museum's core mission is to collect, preserve, and interpret the history and culture of the 9,500-square-mile Chippewa River Valley in northwestern Wisconsin. Deeply involved in regional communities, we connect residents and visitors alike to our region's history through collections, museum exhibits, educational programming, book publishing, and several historic buildings. With 12,000 square feet of award-winning exhibits, the main museum building often surprises visitors in both size and quality. Many of our exhibits have been honored with state awards for excellence, as have several of the accompanying books. The exhibit Farm Life was one of the first exhibits chosen to travel the country as part of NEH on the Road. Within Farm Life is an object theater. Combining audio, photographs, and physical artifacts into a single theatrical production, the seventeen-minute show is a visitor favorite and another award-winning museum experience. Strengths of our collections include regional photography, oral histories, and folk arts. From Ojibwe beadwork and Hmong New Years traditions to Lutheran church potlucks and recreational fishing, we have developed deep understanding of the distinctive character of the Chippewa Valleywhere we came from, what our traditions areand the unique blend of cultures that occurs here. By preserving regional folklore and folkways, our collections form the foundation of our interpretive exhibits and educational programming.The museum also operates Sunnyview School, a one-room schoolhouse dating to 1882; the Anderson log house, a two-story log home built by Scandinavian immigrants ca. 1866; and the Schlegelmilch House, a two-story brick home in downtown Eau Claire built in 1871 by the family of a middle-class German gunsmith.
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  Headquarters:1204 East Half Moon Drive , Eau Claire, Wisconsin, United States

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  Phone Number: +1 715-834-7871

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  Website: https://www.cvmuseum.com

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  Employees:20

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  Revenue:$10 - 50M

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  Legal Name:Chippewa Valley Museum

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• |  NAICS Code: 621210  |

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