Customs House Museum to Host 29th Annual Flying High Fundraiser
May 30, 2012
Clarksville, TN – Held the first Saturday of June each year, Flying High is an evening celebrating artists and the works of art of the region.
Flying High is Customs House Museum’s preeminent fundraiser of the year, supporting educational and exhibit programming of the Museum. [Read more]
Custom House Museum May 2012 Exhibits and Activities
May 1, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
In the month of May, the Museum will feature 2012 National Juried Exhibition, Outdoors In: The Paintings of Lori Putnam, The Unfortunate Fate: Titanic 1912, Civil War Medicine, Celebrating 1898: Artifacts & History, “Let’s Find Clocks” and so much more.
Clarksville’s Civil War Story Video Wins Award from Tennessee Association of Museums
April 9, 2012
Clarksville, TN – “Crossroads of Change, Clarksville, Tennessee 1861-1865,” a locally-produced video providing a perspective of the impact of the Civil War upon Clarksville and its inhabitants during the years 1861 to 1865, was honored with a 2012 Certificate of Commendation from the Tennessee Association of Museums (TAM) at its annual convention held recently in Memphis Tennessee.
Actor Keith McCoy portrays a member of the US Colored Troops in this scene from “Crossroads of Change, Clarksville, Tennessee 1861-1865.” The video was researched, written and filmed in Montgomery County and is based on local journals and diaries of the Civil War era.
Custom House Museum and Cultural Center’s April 2012 Exhibits and Activities
April 2, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
In the month of April, the Museum will feature The Art of Annamaria Gundlach, The Words of Women, The Unfortunate Fate: Titanic 1912, Civil War Medicine, “Let’s Find Doors”, Customs House Museum’s Open House and so much more.
Custom House Museum March 2012 Exhibits and Activities
February 27, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is located in historic downtown Clarksville, Tennessee. Come explore an entire city block featuring large gallery spaces filled with fine art, science and history.
In the month of March, the Museum will feature Richard LeFevre: The Civil War Series, Assemblages: The Art of Sandra Paynter Washburn, The Words of Women, Writer’s Hour, Spring Break Activities and so much more.
Customs House Museum has Sunday Family Fun Day with “Build a Log House”
February 21, 2012
Clarksville, TN – Abraham Lincoln was born in a one-room log cabin on February 12th, 1809. Visit the Customs House Museum on Sunday, February 26th and build your own log house out of craft sticks.
Build a Log House will go from 1:00pm to 5:00pm. [Read more]
Customs House Museum’s Art & Lunch program presents “The Diary of a Confederate Soldier”
February 1, 2012
Clarksville, TN – The Customs House Museum invites you to join us for our monthly Art & Lunch program. On Thursday February 9th, at 12:05pm, the museum will be showing The Diary of a Confederate Soldier in the Museum’s Turner Auditorium. [Read more]
“Assemblages” now at the Customs House Museum
January 20, 2012
Clarksville, TN – “Making art is an integral part of my life. It is a blessing, a way of accessing and expressing inner scapes that would otherwise go unexplored. I like the puzzle that is art, the challenge of figuring out what works and what doesn’t and why” says Sandra Paynter Washburn.
The award winning artist has her exhibit, “Assemblages” now showing at the Customs House Museum. [Read more]
Customs House Museum Art and Lunch Presentation January 19th 2011
January 16, 2012
Clarksville, TN – On Thursday, January 19th the Customs House Museum and Cultural Center is having their free monthly Art & Lunch presentation. This month they will be showing the movie Joan Mitchell: Portrait of An Abstract Painter.
The film will begin at 12:00pm; guest are welcome to bring their bagged lunches to enjoy during the presentation. This film is being shown in conjunction with the exhibit Assemblages: The Art of Sandra Paynter Washburn. [Read more]
Customs House Museum’s “Snowflake Special” Christmas model trains to run through December
December 18, 2011
Clarksville, TN– The Customs House Museum and Cultural Center’s collection of Christmas trains, known as the “Snowflake Special”, will run every Sunday from 1:00pm–4:00pm, except Christmas and New Year’s Day.
The "Snowflake Special" Christmas model trains at the Customs House Museum.
