Check out the latest exhibits and events Central Illinois museums, galleries and historic sites have to offer.

"Connections in Stone: A Native Perspective on the Relation of Oral Tradition and Petroglyphs"; Lobby Gallery; coming soon; Dickson Mounds Museum. "Supreme Satire: Political Cartoons featuring ...

According to federal data, the Dickson Mounds Museum in Lewistown, Illinois, and the U.S. Department of the Interior repatriated more Native American ancestors than any other institutions in 2024.

Over the years, Native Americans, whose tribes had been forcibly removed to other states, protested the exhibit that later became the Dickson Mounds Museum, a branch of the Illinois State Museum.

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Situated along the Mississippi River in northeast Iowa, Effigy Mounds National Monument boasts ... walking or biking the Dickson County Trails; and bird-watching in the Emerson Bay State ...

Effigy Mounds National Monument ... walking or biking the Dickson County Trails; and bird-watching in the Emerson Bay State Recreation Area. There are 82 holes of golf to play at three golf ...

It’s not clear how many ancestral remains are accounted for in those notices. A display case at the Dickson Mounds Museum previously held human remains. (Sky Hopinka for ProPublica) Progress in ...