Every now and then I’ll have someone ask me questions to which I don’t have the answers. I always do my best to find out, but sometimes I don’t find the answer until the visitor is already gone. Today I want to answer a few visitor questions I’ve been asked […]
General Lew Wallace Study & Museum
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Today is Museum Day Live, presented in affiliation with the Smithsonian. People who visit the Museum Day website and print out a ticket can get free admission to one museum for two people. So far today we’ve had a lot of people participate, and we’ve only been open two and […]
Unit 12 (the unit that was opened near the Carriage House) has proven to be interesting. Yesterday, the archaeologists from the University of Indianapolis found flat glass (like what is used in window panes), coal, a piece of yellow ware and square nails. Both the yellow ware and the square […]
More pictures of archaeology on the grounds today. Kids are uncovering some great finds in the Archaeologist Training area and helping out at the reflecting pool, too!
The archaeologists from the University of Indianapolis are here and have started working. They have already opened up a new unit between the Carriage House and the south wall and have found some window glass, coal and bricks. They have also started opening up new units around the reflecting pool […]
The History Beneath Us archaeology program returns to the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum on September 22-23 from 10:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m. each day to revisit the excavation begun in General Wallace’s backyard in September and to break some new ground. The previous archaeological excavations on the grounds […]
We have some exciting new items in our gift shop. There are two new bookmarks, one with a design featuring photos of Lew Wallace and another with a design featuring photos of the Study itself. They sell for $2.75 each and have information and quotes on the back. We’ve also […]
Did you know we have a geocache located somewhere on our 3.5 acres? According to Wikipedia, “[g]eocaching is an outdoor recreational activity in which the participants use a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver or mobile device and other navigational techniques to hide and seek containers, called “geocaches” or “caches”, anywhere […]
I had a great story from one of our visitors the other day. Several years ago they came to see the Study and brought their young son. We have Lew’s violin on display here, as well as several violin pieces that he used to build violins. After seeing the display, […]
In 1873, perhaps feeling flush with royalties from his book The Fair God, Lew Wallace ordered a new carriage. It was a made-to-order French Victoria Carriage that cost $1,000, with an additional $200 for shipping. At this same time, Lew and Susan constructing their new Carriage House immediately north of […]