Grant enables museum to install more than 100 new signs

A Montana History Foundation grant has enabled the Libby Heritage Museum to install 72 new signs aside their outdoor artifacts and plan to install 45 more before the museum opens for the season next spring.

According to a news release, museum volunteer Marge Kroeger spent the summer researching historical descriptions for 120 of the museum’s outdoor artifacts.

“Only a couple of the museum’s old outdoor wooden, paper and glass signs remained and they were beyond repair,” the news release ststaes. “Now thanks to the grant from Montana History Foundation, visitors can read the name and a description for each artifact.”

The new weather-resistant signs are expected to enhance visitors’ knowledge of Libby’s history and provide them a more complete and meaningful experience.

“Thanks to the new signage some visitors who were born and raised in Libby, and visited the Museum this summer, discovered items which they knew were used by their parents, grandparents or great-grandparents,” the news release states.