Highlands Museum Today: Mission And Function

When I close my eyes, I can envision the setting of my earliest museum experiences. My younger sister and I would walk on either side of my mother and our braids and barrettes would bounce as we pushed through the glass doors to the Highlands Museum. Even after the first visit, I would look with wonder from the foyer. The building had high ceilings, two long staircases, countless [LC1] exhibits guarded by velvet stanchions, and case after case filled with fascinating memorabilia. The museum seemed so impossibly large for a town so small. It was a monument dedicated to Ashland, my tiny hometown in Eastern Kentucky, nestled right next to the Ohio River.
The Highlands Museum taught[LC2] the public what they did not learn in history class. Sports, science, the roots of folk and country music, 18th century settlers, coal mines, and aviation—as a child, the information seemed endless. It was one of our
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