Organization

Lucy Dunwody Boehm Porcelain Collection

Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksv at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville

September 1, 2009 - Ongoing

The Customs House Museum Boehm porcelain collection is one of the largest in the southeast. It houses dozens of beautifully detailed birds and flowers, and is truly a must see sight for anyone who can appreciate the beauty of nature.

Helpful Information: Children under age 14 must be accompanied by an adult at all times and in all...

Memory Lane

Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville

March 4, 2010 - Ongoing

See the life and history of Montgomery County during the mid-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Memory Lane features a re-built 1842 log cabin, and a historic Printmaker's Shop, Draper's Shop, and Tobacco Shop. Antique fire trucks, wagons, and carts reveal transportation before the automobile.

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Explorer's Gallery

Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville

March 4, 2010 - Ongoing

The Explorer’s Gallery is packed with fun, learning and fantasy. In McGregor’s Market and Kitchen, Aunt Alice’s Attic, Raceways, and of course – the Bubble Room, children can learn through play! ( Note: The Bubble Room has been moved during construction of the new Bubble Cave, but is still open for fun and...

Challenges and Champions Sports Gallery

Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville

March 4, 2010 - Ongoing

Challenges and Champions highlights amazing athletes who have come from Montgomery County. See Jeff Purvis‘ racecar, Wilma Rudoph’s relay baton, Billy Copeland’s street luge, and other exciting mementos of sporting history.

Helpful Information: Children under age 14 must be accompanied by an adult at...

Postmaster's Office

Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville

March 4, 2010 - Ongoing

This exhibit shows a piece of the Museum’s history. The building was designed in 1898 for use as a Federal Post Office and Custom House to handle the large volume of foreign mail coming up the river from t he city’s international tobacco business. 

Helpful Information: Children under age 14 must be...

Writer's Hour

Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville

April 9, 2013

You are invited to join us for our Writer’s Hour event, which is being presented in conjunction with our Women’s History Month Celebration. The Writer’s Hour will take place on Tuesday, April 9th.

If you are interested in reading from your original work, please contact...

Sunday Family Fun: What's for Dinner?

Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville

April 7, 2013

On April 7th, you are invited to join us as we plan a family dinner, look at some unusual fruits and vegetables, and burn some calories while enjoying the exhibit Eat Well, Play Well.

What is the food we eat? Are fruits and vegetables important? Can everyday activities burn calories? Families, children and school groups...

Let's Find: Hats & Helmets

Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville

April 3-April 4, 2013

On April 3rd & 4th, children 3 – 5 years old and their grown-ups are invited to explore the Museum from a child’s perspective. This month we will be looking for hats and helmets. We will also read a story and make a craft. If you would like, you may bring a hat or helmet to wear for fun.

Let's Find: Hats &...

Spring Break Model Trains

Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville

March 26-March 29, 2013

The Customs House Museum boasts one of the largest model railroad layouts in the region in our Kimbrough Gallery. We invite you to interact with our exhibit, controlling the animation of action within the layouts. Make the figures and automobiles move, and helicopters fly. Be sure to visit Thomas the Tank...

Women Painting Women

Presented by Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville at Customs House Museum and Cultural Center - Clarksville

March 6-May 11, 2013

It is difficult to access a real history of female artists because much of their work was either not recorded or was credited to their male instructors. We do know that one of the first artists to do self portraits was a woman named Sofonisba Anguissola who worked during the Renaissance. By the 19th century, women artists were starting to get...