1411 N 27th St.
Mt. Vernon, IL 62864
Phone: 618-246-0033
Email:
jchsvip14@gmail.com

Open weekends from the first full weekend in May through the last full weekend in October.

 

Saturday

12:00 noon to 4:00 p.m.

Sunday

1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m.

 

Docents are available for group tours most other days by appointment. 

Admission is free although donations are appreciated.


Office Hours
Monday - Friday
 12 p.m. to 4 p.m.

 

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Radios Exhibit

 

The newest permanent exhibit includes many of our collection of radios dating from the 1920s.  They are displayed on new wall mounted shelving just inside the museum main entrance.

 

Radios Phase 1 

 

Prairie Historian Room Exhibits


In this room are permanent exhibits of many of our unique items: the mid-1800’s piano, a kitchen range built in Mt. Vernon’s Vernois stove foundry, wood carvings and a mural by local artist Clarence Pearson, cut glass from Mt. Vernon’s Output Company of America, teacher’s desk from Burkhead School in Moore’s Prairie Township, and many more.

Desk Burkhead School

 

 

 

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