Peoria Riverfront Museum
On this week’s episode of Out and About, Bill Conger joins Jenn Gordon to talk about the reopening of the Peoria Riverfront Museum. Find out about the exciting renovations that have happened during the shutdown, as well as three new exhibits opening on March 6, including
101 Treasure of the Peoria Riverfront Museum,
American Story:
Bronzeville to Harlem, and
American Verses: Terry Adkins, Mark Bradford & Kerry James Marshall. Learn more at The Peoria Riverfront Museum.
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Courtesy Jerry Milam / Peoria Riverfront Museum
If the name Jerry Milam means anything to you, it s probably because you know something about the Golden Voice Recording Studio he and his wife founded in South Pekin. That s where bands like REO Speedwagon, Styx, and Head East recorded some of their biggest albums.
But that s an entirely different story.
Instead, let s go back to the early 1960s, when Jerry Milam was just a young kid from Pekin. He d picked up some work in his teens as a photographer, putting his skills to use at the Pekin Daily Times and in some local commercial studios.
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PEORIA, Ill. Sunday was the first day of Engineering Week at the Peoria Riverfront Museum. But, due to COVID-19, this year’s event is being done virtually.
For the first time, Engineering Week is being done completely over Zoom with events scheduled through Thursday.
Young scientists will be able to learn how to construct robots, work with hovercrafts and learn about corrosion.
800 science kits have been donated Caterpillar, the Society of Women Engineers and local organizations.
“Caterpillar made a significant donation that allowed the museum to provide 500 free engineering kits with the materials to build a simple homopolar motor, in addition to the kits donated by other engineering groups,” said Nick Rae, Peoria Riverfront Museum science educator and Engineering Week coordinator.
An annual engineering event held by the Peoria Riverfront Museum is taking a new approach during the COVID-19 pandemic.
The normal “Engineering Day” special has been changed to a week-long virtual event featuring free at-home activity kits and daily Zoom workshops, beginning this Sunday. Museum science curator Renae Kerrigan said the plan emerged from a brainstorming session with past sponsors on how to hold the event without having people in the building.
“(We) came up with this idea of sort of extending the program so instead of it just being one day, having a whole week and calling that ‘Virtual Engineering Week,’” said Kerrigan. “Groups have put together these kits, so it’s free materials for families to pick up and then they do the activities at home.