LONGMONT, Colo. – The Longmont Museum announces the first exhibition drawn from the Longmont Times-Call collection, transferred to the Museum in 2014. Run the Presses! Headlines from the Longmont Times-Call Collection, opens February 27 and runs through April 19 in the Longmont Museum’s Portal Gallery.

 

The exhibition features a series front pages from the last 112 years of the Longmont Times-Call and its predecessors, highlighting key moments in Longmont and the nation’s history. The papers celebrate Longmont native son Vance Brand’s successful Apollo-Soyuz space mission, mourn the assassination of President Kennedy, and record the struggle Longmont and all of Colorado had with the Ku Klux Klan in 1925.

 

Run the Presses is the first in what the Museum hopes will be an ongoing series of programs and exhibitions that utilize the resources of the Longmont Times-Call collection. The collection, covering more than a century of Longmont journalistic history, is now accessible by appointment through the Longmont Museum’s archives.

PUBLIC PROGRAM

Curator Conversation

Monday, March 23, noon. Free

Take an informal tour of Run the Presses! and learn about the contents of the Longmont Times-Call collection.

 LONGMONT MUSEUM

 The Longmont Museum is a center for art and culture in northern Colorado. The Museum’s permanent exhibitions highlight the history of Longmont and the northern Colorado Front Range, and its special exhibitions range from major artists such as Ansel Adams, John J. Audubon, and Edward Weston, to hands-on explorations of transportation, construction, and technology. For more information, contact the Museum at 303-651-8374, or visit www.longmontcolorado.gov/museum.

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 Contact:
Erik Mason, Longmont Museum Curator, 303-651-8374, erik.mason@longmontcolorado.gov