Vittles: Flavors Across The Plains

Vittles: Flavors Across
The Plains
Opens May 26 and runs through September 14

GRAND ISLAND, STUHR MUSEUM - This summer, Stuhr Museum offers an engaging and possibly surprising look at food and cooking habits of our pioneer ancestors during the summer exhibit "Vittles: Flavors Across the Plains." The show opened this weekend and runs through September 14 th.

The exhibit deals with food from the ground all the way to the dinner table or restaurant plate. Beginning outside the Stuhr Building “Vittles” includes a garden display featuring a Native American section, with corn, beans and squash and a pioneer garden with lettuce, radishes, onions and beans which will be on display and growing throughout the summer.

Inside, you'll find the main gallery full of artifacts from Stuhr Museum's permanent collection that are rarely seen outside of the collections building. The exhibit includes an early 20th century kitchen and dining room, along with tools used in food preparation, photos, and a special section on picnics, beekeeping and other food preparation. Photos from the era line the walls of the Stuhr Building, and give visitors a real peak into the kitchens, dining rooms and pantries of Midwestern residents of the 1890s.

Inside the Lacy Gallery, visitors can walk through our recreated soda fountain and mercantile, complete with recreations and actual food labels and packages from the turn of the century. From the cash register to the fountains used to mix soda beverages, the similarities and differences between our food stores of today are evident as you make your way through this exhibit.

“Vittles: Flavors Across the Plains” is Stuhr Museum’s annual summer exhibit, and will stay up through the middle of September. For more information on the display and pictures and videos of the exhibit, log onto www.stuhrmuseum.org, or call the museum at (308) 385-5316.