The Museum at Central School, at the old Central School building in Kalispell, Montana, USA, is a history museum featuring exhibits that illuminate the history of Northwest Montana.
Operated by the non-profit Northwest Montana Historical Society, the Museum at Central School is housed in the 20,000-square-foot (1,900 m2) Richardsonian Romanesque-style four-story stone Central School building, constructed in 1894 and completely restored and renovated in the late 1990s.
Current permanent exhibits focus on Montana pioneer Frank Bird Linderman, the Northwest Montana timber industry, the U.S. Forest Service, Northwest Native American culture, early Kalispell, and the turn-of-the-century community of Demersville. An elaborate new natural history exhibit, Wild Montana, highlighting the flora, fauna and geology of the Flathead Valley from the highest peaks of Glacier National Park to the low lying wetlands of Flathead Lake, is being planned, designed and funded to open at the Museum in the Spring of 2007.
Famous quotes containing the words museum, central and/or school:
“Flower picking.”
—Hawaiian saying no. 2710, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)
“In a large university, there are as many deans and executive heads as there are schools and departments. Their relations to one another are intricate and periodic; in fact, “galaxy” is too loose a term: it is a planetarium of deans with the President of the University as a central sun. One can see eclipses, inner systems, and oppositions.”
—Jacques Barzun (b. 1907)
“And so they have left us feeling tired and old.
They never cared for school anyway.
And they have left us with the things pinned on the bulletin board.
And the night, the endless, muggy night that is invading our school.”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)