(L-R) Rodney Wilson and Colton Adkisson deliver welcome message at the MAC Museum grand opening.
New Museum at Mineral Area College Opens
Mineral Area College is pleased to announce the opening of The MAC Museum of College & Community History, recently reorganized and relocated.
History department coordinator Rodney Wilson is serving as museum curator, with history department instructor Colton Adkisson as assistant curator, and college Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. Keith Zoromski, as consultant.
Last year, the museum was housed on the second floor of the college library. It is now located off the theater lobby (next to the box office) in the Fine Arts Building, in space formerly occupied by the Mineral Area College Board of Trustees.
The MAC Museum explores and exhibits the history of predecessor Flat River Junior College (1922-1965), Mineral Area College, and the histories of surrounding communities.
The museum has assembled nearly twenty displays of college and community artifacts, arranged chronologically along the museum perimeter. In addition, there are two special exhibits currently running.
One is The Four Towns, about Flat River, Esther, Elvins, and Rivermines, and their consolidation into Park Hills on New Year's Day 1994.
The second is called Inherently Unequal: Segregated Education in Missouri. It is on loan through the end of January 2027 from the Missouri State Museum. This exhibit also contains a special local focus, researched by Rodney Wilson, about Robert Lee Gray, the first Black student to be enrolled at Flat River Junior College.
The museum will be open for self-guided tours on the same schedule as the college campus -- if the college is open, the museum is open. It will also be open before the start of and during intermissions for all productions in our theater.
Mineral Area College extends a warm invitation to everyone to visit the new and improved (and relocated) MAC Museum of College & Community History.
(L-R) Rodney Wilson and Colton Adkisson deliver welcome message at the MAC Museum grand opening.
New Museum at Mineral Area College Opens
Mineral Area College is pleased to announce the opening of The MAC Museum of College & Community History, recently reorganized and relocated.
History department coordinator Rodney Wilson is serving as museum curator, with history department instructor Colton Adkisson as assistant curator, and college Provost & Vice President of Academic Affairs, Dr. Keith Zoromski, as consultant.
Last year, the museum was housed on the second floor of the college library. It is now located off the theater lobby (next to the box office) in the Fine Arts Building, in space formerly occupied by the Mineral Area College Board of Trustees.
The MAC Museum explores and exhibits the history of predecessor Flat River Junior College (1922-1965), Mineral Area College, and the histories of surrounding communities.
The museum has assembled nearly twenty displays of college and community artifacts, arranged chronologically along the museum perimeter. In addition, there are two special exhibits currently running.
One is The Four Towns, about Flat River, Esther, Elvins, and Rivermines, and their consolidation into Park Hills on New Year's Day 1994.
The second is called Inherently Unequal: Segregated Education in Missouri. It is on loan through the end of January 2027 from the Missouri State Museum. This exhibit also contains a special local focus, researched by Rodney Wilson, about Robert Lee Gray, the first Black student to be enrolled at Flat River Junior College.
The museum will be open for self-guided tours on the same schedule as the college campus -- if the college is open, the museum is open. It will also be open before the start of and during intermissions for all productions in our theater.
Mineral Area College extends a warm invitation to everyone to visit the new and improved (and relocated) MAC Museum of College & Community History.