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Idaho State Historical Museum sets a reopening date for late spring 2018
The public hasn’t had a look inside the Idaho State Historical Museum in Julia Davis Park since the summer of 2014, when it closed for a $17 million renovation and expansion project. Its staff relocated to a temporary home at the former Bureau of Reclamation building on Broadway. Its thousands of artifacts went into storage.
Museum staffers will begin to move back into the expanded building early this fall, and the museum will reopen to visitors in May 2018.
It’s likely the museum will host a week of opening festivities.
“There will be too much going on to fit into one opening day,” said Janet Gallimore, executive director of the Idaho State Historical Society.
Read more here: http://www.idahostatesman.com/living/article151455127.html