LASR.net Homepage

Menu

Niobrara Museum


category : Museums
Niobrara Museum

Included in the displays and items of our interesting past in the museum are:



  • Collections of items from Niobrara and surrounding area

  • Documents of the three Niobrara towns' activities

  • Items with advertisement of past businesses, school days, country store, home living

  • Church area

  • Niobrara trophies

  • Many farm items

  • Large wire display

  • Family history files

  • Special display of three Sage brothers lost at sea

  • Microfilm reader and microfilm of Niobrara newspapers from late 1800's to present

  • Hand painted mural on outside wall of the museum depicting 200 years of history in one
    picture from Lewis & Clark times to the present

  • Masonic Temple and Eastern Star memorabilia displayed

  • Veterans area display

  • Hood ornament collection



Admission: Donations accepted
Hours: Open Memorial Day to Labor Day - Saturday 10-3 p.m., Sunday 1-3 p.m., and
Address: 254-2 Park Avenue
Phone: 402-857-3609

Come visit us in Niobrara, Nebraska

Attractions and Upcoming Events

Devil's Nest

Devil's Nest is a designated scenic area noted as a hideout for Jesse James and other famous outlaws. Rumors have it there is still $30,000 in hidden gold buried in the Devils Nest! In your adventure of reaching this point, you will no doubt understand why this was such a good hiding place.

Niobrara, NE

Chief Standing Bear

Ponca Chief Standing Bear merely wanted to fulfill a promise; instead, he became part of one of the West's most famous trials. The Chief's son, like many of his tribe, had taken ill after being forced onto a reservation in Oklahoma. On his deathbed, the son uttered a final wish:

Niobrara, NE Indian Heritage

Mormon Monument

In 1846 Newell Knight, his family, and a company of Mormons left Nauvoo, Illinois to search out a home in the Rocky Mountains. Due to hardships, the group could not go on and they built a fort of log cabins by the Niobrara

Niobrara, NE Monuments

Pilgrim Congregational Church and Manse

Constructed in 1870-71, this building served as both a chapel and a training school. Listed on the National Register of Historic Places.

Niobrara, NE Historic Churches

Lewis and Clark Visitors Center

Niobrara, NE Recreation

Things to do Museums near Niobrara, NE

Neligh Mills State Historic Site

Nebraska State Historical Society branch museum. Nebraska's only 19th century flour mill with the original millin...

Platte County Historical Society Museum

Features the complete 1857 log cabin of Frederick Gottschalk, one of Columbus' founders, turn-of-the-century barb...

Klown Museum

400 clowns displayed....

Cuming County Historical Society Museum Complex

Cedar County Historical Museum