Fall Festivities
Fall is officially upon us here in the North Platte valley. Now that temperatures are falling and the leaves are changing, another Harvest Festival has come and gone.
Legacy of the Plains was Sugar Valley Rally Pit Stop!
It was a beautiful day on Sunday, June 4th as several gorgeous classic cars came rolling into the museum’s campus. Legacy of the Plains was the morning “pit stop” for …
Legacy of the Plains is a Passport Destination!
Yup, you read that correctly! We are one of the 80 stops highlighted throughout Nebraska for this year’s statewide passport program. There are four stops in our immediate area, our …
Shout Out to our Volunteers!
As we move forward into the upcoming summer months, the staff at Legacy of the Plains Museum would like to take the opportunity to thank all of our incredible volunteers …
Happy 150th Birthday Nebraska!
Today is the big day – March 1st! 150 years ago today, President Andrew Johnson issued a proclamation declaring Nebraska a U.S. state.
Yesterday, Legacy of the Plains held a special early …
Museum’s Main Exhibit Gallery is Closed
Legacy of the Plains has been working to build and expand our museum’s exhibits inside the Main Exhibit Gallery and from this point until the grand opening scheduled for mid-September …
Japanese in western Nebraska
Did you know? Nebraska’s cultural diversity has included people of Japanese descent for more than 100 years. In the early 1900s, Japanese immigrants came to the North Platte River valley …
Temporary gallery closure
The Legacy of the Plains Museum main exhibit gallery will be closed February 22-26 for the safety of our visitors and volunteers.
The main museum gallery is undergoing another step in …
In memory of Charlie
Legacy of the Plains Museum is closed today, 2-16-16, to enable staff and volunteers to gather to remember a man who dedicated decades of his life to museum work, who …
A sneak peek
This is a sneak peek at our proposed corn pod and selected pieces of equipment.
It’s no secret that we are moving forward at Legacy of the Plains to develop …