Libby's Heritage Museum celebrates opening day 2024
Rob Viergutz uses a drill to show how miners made holes into solid rock before being packed with blasting powder and fired to loosen rock in a mine Saturday, April 18, 2024, at the Heritage Museum's opening day in Libby. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
Members of the Old Time Opera House Theater perform Saturday, April 18, 2024, at the Heritage Museum's opening day in Libby. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
A young visitor got a piece of candy from one of the members of the Old Time Opera House Theater group Saturday, April 18, 2024, at the Heritage Museum's opening day in Libby. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
Visitors have a look at the Libby Volunteer Fire Department display Saturday, April 18, 2024, at the Heritage Museum's opening day in Libby. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
There were several quilts, made by members of the Kootenai Valley Quilt Guild, on display Saturday, April 18, 2024, at the Heritage Museum's opening day in Libby. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
Big Sky Bows and Blowhards performed Saturday, April 18, 2024, at the Heritage Museum's opening day in Libby. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
A blacksmith bellows and a logging choker are just two of the many artifacts that can be seen at the Heritage Museum in Libby. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
Rob Viergutz shows two visitors how a rock crusher works Saturday, April 18, 2024, at the Heritage Museum's opening day in Libby. (Scott Shindledecker/The Western News)
Libby's acclaimed Heritage Museum opened to the public Saturday, May 18, with several interesting demonstrations, exhibits and performances that were popular with visitors of all ages.
Historic dress and textile expert M. Lynn Barnes presented her latest research project, “Bridal Belle of Libby? How the Erhard Family Brought French Fashions to Libby, Montana.”
Beginning opening day and continuing through June, the Kootenai Valley Quilt Guild will display quilts in the Tower Gallery. The gallery will house a changing exhibit throughout the summer with artwork by local artists during July and finish the season with photographs in August through the season’s end.
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