Museums and Libraries
Haskell is home to the American Indian Athletic Hall of Fame, which recognizes famous Haskell athletes including John Levi, Jim Thorpe, Moses Yellow Hair, and Billy Mills.
The Haskell Cultural Center and Museum is a museum that provides exhibits of interest about Indigenous history. It also houses archives that includes collections on Haskell and of other subjects.
Tommaney Library is a fully functioning academic resource center.
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Famous quotes containing the words museums and, museums and/or libraries:
“In museums and palaces we are alternate radicals and conservatives.”
—Henry James (1843–1816)
“Museums are just a lot of lies, and the people who make art their business are mostly imposters.... We have infected the pictures in museums with all our stupidities, all our mistakes, all our poverty of spirit. We have turned them into petty and ridiculous things.”
—Pablo Picasso (1881–1973)
“To me, nothing can be more important than giving children books, It’s better to be giving books to children than drug treatment to them when they’re 15 years old. Did it ever occur to anyone that if you put nice libraries in public schools you wouldn’t have to put them in prisons?”
—Fran Lebowitz (20th century)