Dickson Mounds Museum, which exhibited an excavated Native American cemetery, was transferred to the Illinois State Museum in 1965. Construction of a new museum was initiated in 1970, and the new museum with the excavated burials exhibited in one wing, opened in 1972. Bruce McMillan became director of the Illinois State Museum in 1977, and […]
Bonnie Styles
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‘His stunning museum exhibitions leave a lasting memory.’
On June 20 the community lost a valued colleague and friend. Joe Hennessy, exhibits design chief at the Illinois State Museum in Springfield, shared his creativity and artistic talents with more than 4.2 million visitors since his arrival at the museum in 1989. His rich contributions to the arts extended beyond exhibition design to painting […]
