Elgin Public Museum

Linda will read Green is My Favorite Color on Saturday, April 18th, at 12:30 pm. Copies will be available for purchase and signing. Standard museum admission applies ($3 adults, $2 kids 3-12 and seniors 60+, and FREE for under 3, museum members, Elgin Twp Senior Access Passes).

FIVE slots left for Saturday, March 28th! You can also reserve now for April 25, May 30, June 27, July 25, Aug 29, Sept 26, Oct 31. Contact blazier_s@cityofelgin.org for more info and to make a payment for a reservation. Ages 5+, $5 each. MUSEUM MEMBERS ONE FREE SESSION PER YEAR!

Join us as author Ed Bates speaks and holds a book-signing for his colorful and comprehensive new history of the Valley Fox Trot race! FREE ADMISSION, donations welcome.

Thanks to the Walton Island Jammers for blowing the skylights out of the joint this morning!

We feared the rain might keep folks from coming this morning, but it was a nice turnout for our Seniors Friday Free Field Trip, The Murderer's Birds! Thanks so much to all who came!

Stuck in the winter doldrums? Come to EPM! Open Saturday and Sunday 12-4, adults just $3, kids and seniors $2, under 3 free. Our freshened-up Discovery Room has lots for kids to do and play with! Make Valentines, Black History Month Coloring Sheets, tornado bottles, microscopes!

As of Sunday, February 1st, we are open to the public for our regular Saturday-Sunday hours of 12-4. Come see all the new stuff!

It's 630 pm on a day that started at 720 am with board mtg still to go so this is the best I can do for Museum Selfie Day ...

In the midst of all our new exhibit madness, we are still doing programs! Yesterday we welcomed the PEO organization, and today we had a blast with kids from Algonquin Lakes Elementary!

From all of us at EPM, from the living to the long extinct, HAPPY HOLIDAYS! -- Sharry, Abby, Mike, Steph, Adam, Judy, Amy B, Karin, Amy S, Gail, Linda, Lynda, Niki, Deb, and Sarah. 🎄❄️⛄️

The best materials to develop skills are right in your own home! #finemotordevelopment The OT Toolbox

Reasons to visit Elgin Public Museum this weekend -- open 12-4! 1, Cool last-minute Holiday gifts, like a beautiful downtown Elgin photo by Bruce Shipyor ... Ed Bates' colorful and comprehensive history of the Elgin Valley Fox Trot.

Stumped on what to get those unusual folks on your holiday shopping list? The museum gift shop has some unusual gifts! Heather Dorsch art, rock and mineral jewelry, fossils, Ed Bates' great new book about the history of the Fox Trot. Open Saturday/Sunday 12-4.

A big heartfelt Snoopy Dance Thank You to those who donated to Elgin Public Museum for Giving Tuesday! We so appreciate your generosity!

It's Giving Tuesday, this Tuesday. As a 501(c)3 non-profit @museum1907 appreciates all the help they can get, both in monetary and in-kind donations. Please consider Elgin Public Museum and its educational mission for your holiday season giving!

The museum will be CLOSED today, Sat. 29 November.

Our third of 3 November Seniors programs was another big hit! Topic this week, Owls. We discussed the adaptations that make owls one of nature's most fearsome hunters, dissected pellets, and even explored a Whoooooodunnit murder case in which an owl may have been the real killer!

Thanks to Board Member Lynda Hayes for capturing these images of a really wonderful and informative program from Gerald Savage at Saturday's Indigenous Peoples Observation!