| Exhibits |
| The Charles A. Weyerhaeuser Memorial Museum contains two main exhibit rooms for
displaying historical artifacts from Morrison County. Exhibits also line the east and west hallways.
A rotating photo exhibit can be seen in the Gordon Rosenmeier Research Room. Following is a more
detailed explanation of each of these exhibit areas. |
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| Z. N. Barnes Exhibit Room |
| The Z.N. Barnes Exhibit Room displays various aspects of business and industry in Morrison County.
The room was named for Z.N. Barnes, an employee of the Pine Tree Lumber Company. He was also a photographer and
captured many wonderful pictures of the county and his family. Staff of the museum also call this room the Logging
Room because of its display of logging photos and artifacts (including a 'dead head' log pulled from the Mississippi
River long after the logging era in Morrison County). Other industries represented in the room include Larson Boat Works,
Kiewel Brewery, local creameries, agriculture, milling companies, and water power. |
| J. C. Patience Exhibit Room |
| The J.C. Patience Exhibit Room is also called the Cultural Baggage Room because upon entering, the
visitor encounters an Ojibwe bandolier bag and an immigrant's traveling bag. The room has a wide variety of artifacts
on display that show how people in the county lived in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. There are personal
items, such as women's hats, men's clothing accessories, medical goods, and hair-care items. This room also shows kitchen
utensils and laundry artifacts, as well as toys, a model steam engine, and a concertina. Photographs capturing daily life are
on display in the J.C. Patience Room. |
| Gordon Rosenmeier Room Photo Exhibit |
| The Gordon Rosenmeier Room serves as the research area of the museum. It contains three exhibit cases that
are changed periodically, at least once a year. Photos or artifacts based on a particular topic are chosen from the MCHS collections.
These may or may not match the topic for the Showcase Exhibit (see below). Exhibits have included wedding photos, photos of children and small fiber pieces. |
| West & East Hall Exhibits |
The west hallway of the museum displays natural history and American Indian artifacts from the museum's collections. Beaded articles
and stone arrowheads and tools are part of the Indian display. Among the natural history artifacts are native stones, a cross-section of a white pine tree, and a stuffed beaver.
The east hallway of the museum serves as the Showcase Exhibit area. This exhibit is changed at least once a year and highlights particular topics using artifacts from the collections. Past
Showcase Exhibits have included Prohibition, County Schools, Nathan Richardson, Music, and New Acquisitions. |
| Exhibits are self-guided at The Weyerhaeuser Museum. Visitors may view these exhibits any time during our regular museum hours. To make arrangements for a guided tour, see our Tours page. |
