Welcome to Stuhr Museum!

Group Tours
& Motorcoach Groups

Group Rates & Tours:
Special group museum admission rates are available to groups of 10 or more with a confirmed reservation!

Motorcoach & Bus Tours:
Stuhr Museum welcomes motorcoach groups and offers special motorcoach tour rates and programming options. Boxed lunches for your group, step-on guides or docents, and entertainment are available by special request and at special pricing. See our "Programs from the Prairie" below!

Stuhr Museum can provide catering recommendations, entertainment options and historical enhancements. Large or small, we can handle your group and add the special, detailed touches that make Stuhr Museum so unique.

For more information about booking your group tour, please contact Renae Hunt, Facility Sales & Group Tours, at 308-385-5316 ext. 205 or email rhunt@stuhrmuseum.org

Programs from the Prairie

• Wedding Dresses Through the Ages: Learn about and take a closer look at wedding dresses from the past.
• Quilts: A Patchwork of History: View the large variety of beautiful historical quilts from the museum's vast and precious collection of quilts.
• They Also Served~Women of WWI: Learn about the women of Hall County who served during World War I, those who served overseas and those who served right here at home.
• Tinsmithing: Experience the art of tinsmithing!
• Blacksmithing: Experience the art of blacksmithing!
• Great Plains Indians: Discover the world of the Pawnee and other Great Plains Indians. See where they lived by being in an Earth Lodge or teepee. Handle tools and other items Indians would have possessed. Learn about customs and hear stories that Pawnee children would have known.
• Overland Trails: Participants learn the reasons for the Great Migration as they make preparations for a trip on the trail. They will pull handcarts like the Mormons used that are loaded with supplies for a journey 'west'. Along the way they will learn about the daily routines, hardships, and joys of life on the trail 150 years ago, as well as prepare their own noon meal.
• Pawnee Indian Earth Lodge: Learn about the Pawnee lifestyles pre-contact with the traders and settlers. Hands-on and discussion about tools, weapons, and other items used by the Pawnee. Discussion about other plains and US tribes and how European contact affected them.
• Setting up the TeePee: Learn how to set up a Native American teepee.
• Stories in the Earth Lodge: Hear a collection of Native American stories in Stuhr's unique Pawnee Earth Lodge.
• Cabins on the Prairie: Learn about the building, construction and history of log cabins and road ranches.
• Cowboy Tales: Listen as Jim Johnston animatedly describes the life and times of the Cowboys on the trail in the Gus Fonner Memorial Rotunda.
• Caring for Family Treasures: Discover the Stuhr Museum's Research and Collections Departments. Learn how the Stuhr Museum Archives can help you organize and preserve your family treasures.
• Caring for 19th Century Family Photographs: Learn basic techniques for the care, handling and organization of 19th century family photographs from Stuhr Museum's Photograph Curator, Karen Keehr.
• The Leschinsky Collection: If a picture is worth a thousand words, then Stuhr Museum's Lumbard-Leschinsky Collection is worth roughly 33 million. From the 1880s until his death in 1937, Grand Island photographer Julius P.F. Leschinsky documented the social, cultural, political and economic history of Hall County and central Nebraska. Learn more about how this unique collection captures nearly 100 years of Hall County people, businesses, organizations and buildings.
• Lost Businesses of Hall County: Explore the businesses and companies that were the foundations of Hall County and have since vanished.
• Behind the Scenes at Stuhr Museum: Take a peek into the Collection and Research Departments at Stuhr Museum. Learn how Hall County's history is being preserved for generations to come.
• Pictoral History of Grand Island: Viewed through images from Stuhr Museum's Photograph Archive, learn how Grand Island evolved from railroad town to one of central Nebraska's largest cities.
• Boy Scout/Girl Scout Badge opportunities
• Create your own program! Have an idea? We'll design a program to fit your needs!
  

  For more information, contact Renae Hunt at (308) 385-5316 ext 205 or email rhunt@stuhrmuseum.org