"Person to Person"
Current Special Exhibit
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The Main Gallery focuses on visual and written communication. Portrait paintings show one of the first ways used to capture an image. Visual communication continues with photography and motion pictures. Written communication begins with pictographs and explores maps, writing, printing, typing and computing. See how Peter White's signature changed! Imagine Marquette's early mail service by dog sled! Displays also feature local writer Will Adams and artist Will Bradley. In the log cabin, please check out our model and plans for the new museum as we move from the past to the future! Upstairs, the West Gallery explores the many ways sound is used to communicate--from Morse Code to telephones, fire alarms, bells, radio, TV and music. Braille, hearing aids, maritime communication and more are also featured. See Marquette Harbor's first fog horn. Listen to some of these sounds or have a seat and watch a related documentary.
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Find the green hands for hands-on activities throughout this exhibit.
Permanent Exhibits
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The permanent exhibit features the history of Marquette County from Native American culture and early fur trading to maritime history and mining. Some of the highlights include a Native American diorama, a fur trading post, an antique gun collection, and fully furnished dollhouses. Explore history through sound recordings, photographs and artifacts which range from early settler to the present. |
The William A. Burt Survey Party of 1844
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William Austin Burt, inventor, legislator, land surveyor and millwright, patented the Solar Compass in 1836. This compass was used to set meridian (north-south) lines in federal land surveys. In Michigan, Burt worked as a land surveyor and a millwright, building over eight mills. He was a member of the Michigan Territorial Legislature in 1826-27. He served as Mount Vernon's first postmaster (1832-1856), a Macomb County Circuit Judge (1833), a state legislator (1853) and a deputy U.S. Surveyor (1833-1853). Between 1833 and 1857 he and his five sons won acclaim for their accurate work on public land surveys. In 1857 Burt moved to Detroit, where he died in 1858. |
Plus many more educational exhibits . . .
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Collection of old Marquette photographs . . .
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