Churchill Museum wins humanities award

Callaway County exhibit praised by state group

April 5, 2013 at 6:00 a.m. | Updated April 5, 2013 at 6:00 a.m.

Mark Brooks of Auxvasse, a sheet metal worker, checks out antique tools used by sheet metal workers. The tools were included in a display prepared for "The Way We Worked" Smithsonian exhibit at the National Churchill Memorial in 2012. The exhibit has won a statewide humanities award for the exhibition.
Mark Brooks of Auxvasse, a sheet metal worker, checks out antique tools used by sheet metal workers. The tools were included in a display prepared for "The Way We Worked" Smithsonian exhibit at the National Churchill Memorial in 2012. The exhibit has won a statewide humanities award for the exhibition.

The National Churchill Museum in Fulton will receive the 2013 Missouri Humanities Award for Exemplary Community Achievement in the Humanities in Missouri.

The award will be presented April 17 in Jefferson City at the Missouri Humanities Council's awards ceremony.

Rob Havers, National Churchill Museum director, said the museum was fortunate to host a Smithsonian exhibit last year and thanked the Missouri Humanities Council for the award.

"We were overjoyed at the enthusiastic response the Smithsonian exhibit received from the public and amazed at the significant contributions made by so many to make the exhibition possible," Havers said.

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