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The Morgantown History Museum is a nonprofit institution and the first city-sponsored museum in the Greater Morgantown area. Its mission is to preserve and promote local and regional history and to make it accessible to the citizens of Morgantown and visitors to the region.
In addition to rotating exhibits, some exhibits at the Museum will remain on display indefinitely. These include:
- Summers Printing Press display (printing press, type-set aligning table, upper and lower type, and cabinets)
- Morgan Shirt Company display (computerized sewing machine and shrt patterns, and items manufactured for Polo, Brooks Brothers, and Calvin Klein)
- Metropolitan Theater Display (nickel scale, Coca-Cola, and 'PoP'corn dispensers
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Morgantown Municipal Building
West Virginia Day Lecture
Dr. Ronald L. Lewis, West Virginia historian laureate and professor emeritus of history at West Virginia University, will give a talk on the "revolution within a revolution" that occurred when West Virginia seceded from Virginia in 1861.
The June 20 event is sponsored by the Morgantown History Museum and will celebrate West Virginia's sesquicentennial at the Monongalia Art Center's Tanner Theatre, 107 High Street, with a reception at 7 p.m. and the talk at 7:30 p.m.
The lecture, entitled "The Revolution That Forged a State," will show how Virginia's decision to secede from the Union and join the Confederacy in 1861 precipitated the separation of Western Virginians from the commonwealth.
After Dr. Lewis's lecture, the audience will be invited to enjoy birthday cake at the Morgantown History Museum at 175 Kirk Street. The lecture is made possible by the West Virginia Humanities Council's Sesquicentennial Speakers Bureau and is free and open to the public.
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