General Lew Wallace Study & Museum

2021 Lew Wallace Hoosier Author Fair
2021-11-27 16:00 - 19:00 (America/Indiana/Indianapolis) | Fusion54, 101 W. Main, Crawfordsville, IN, 47933, United States
Each year, the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum hosts several regional authors for their annual Lew Wallace Hoosier Author Fair. The event takes place on the third floor of Fusion54 Coworking Space, which is located at 101 W. Main St., Crawfordsville. We are planning the 2021 Hoosier Author Fair for Saturday, November 27, 2021 from 4 – 7 p.m.

The Hoosier Author Fair is free and open to the public. Authors will have books and book-related merchandise for sale and are happy to sign copies and chat with readers. Attending authors represent several genres of writing. The Hoosier Author Fair moved to Fusion54 (101 W. Main Street) in 2019 as a result of out-growing our meeting space in the Carriage House Interpretive Center of the museum. The Fusion54 location allows for better social distancing, in addition to being more convenient to downtown Crawfordsville.
Each author is responsible for taking payments, so readers should bring cash as well as credit cards.
See the Author Fair Main Page for a list of participating authors.

Museum Closed
2021-11-25 - 2021-11-26, 2020-11-26 - 2020-11-27, 2020-11-11, 2020-07-04 | IN

Book Club - Whistling Past the Graveyard
2021-11-18 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom Meeting
Please note this date has been changed from 11/4/21!

“The Conservation of Paintings: Historical and Technical Discoveries”
2021-09-30 19:00 - 20:00 | St. John’s Episcopal Church Fellowship Hall, 212 S Green St, Crawfordsville, 47933
“The Conservation of Paintings: Historical and Technical Discoveries”
Presented by Painting Conservator & Art Historian Barry Bauman
Hosted by General Lew Wallace Study and Museum
Free and open to the public
Is it true that a painting conservator is also a detective? According to acclaimed conservator and art historian Barry Bauman, every painting has its secrets. During his 46 years of experience treating and analyzing damaged paintings, he has uncovered many of them—lost signatures, hidden dates, and entire paintings hidden beneath other works. Two of his discoveries were so phenomenal they landed on the front page of The New York Times.
Those who attend his upcoming presentation “The Conservation of Paintings: Historical and Technical Discoveries,” on Thursday, September 30th, 7:00pm, will share in the joy of some of his most remarkable discoveries. Hosted by the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum, this event will be held at the St. John’s Episcopal Church Fellowship Hall. It is free and open to the general public.
Bauman’s discoveries lecture has been one of his most popular, especially for a museum or college audience, where majors in art, art history, chemistry, physics, history, and museum studies all overlap with conservation concerns. Most students and individuals are not aware of the conservation field and the rewards it has to offer. At the beginning of his career, Barry Bauman worked for eleven years at the Art Institute of Chicago, departing as the Associate Conservator of Paintings. He then founded and directed the Chicago Conservation Center, which for 20 years, was the largest conservation facility in the nation.
In 2004, Bauman left the private sector to establish Bauman Conservation, America’s first conservation laboratory dedicated to offering complimentary services to museums and nonprofit organizations. When he closed Bauman Conservation in 2018, it was estimated he had contributed more than $6,000,000 in conservation services to museums and nonprofits. In August, 2019, Barry Bauman opened Conservation Ventures (ConservationVentures.org), a company that focuses on presentations and CAP grants to assist museums with recommendations and priorities for long-range collection care. Bauman is an Elected Fellow of the American Institute for Conservation.

Lecture: A Look Inside the Studio & Home of TC Steele
2021-09-23 19:00 - 20:00 | St. John’s Episcopal Church Fellowship Hall, 212 S Green St, Crawfordsville, 47933
Jessica Stephens from the Indiana State Museum’s T.C. Steele Historic Site. Stephens will present “A Look Inside the Studio & Home of T.C. Steele.” Steele spent his childhood in Waveland and worked as a portrait artist in Crawfordsville before moving to Brown County. This lecture will take place at 7 p.m. on Thursday, September 23, 2021, in the Fellowship Hall of St. John’s Episcopal Church at 212 S. Green Street.

Stephens studied at Indiana University for her Bachelors of Arts: Double Major: Art History & History, Minor: Classical Civilizations, and also her Masters in the Science of Education: Art Education, emphasis in Museum Education. She was an intern at the Peggy Guggenheim Collection in Venice, Italy, after graduate school. She was also Assistant Curator of Education at the Morris Museum of Art from 2011–2017, in Augusta, GA. In 2017, Stephens became the Youth Programs Manager at the Indiana State Museum and Historic Sites. In July of 2020, she became the Site Manager of the T.C. Steele State Historic Site.

This installment of the Dr. Howard Miller Lecture Series is presented to complement the General Lew Wallace Study & Museums current annual exhibit, “Versatile Genius: Lew Wallace’s Creative Endeavors.” The exhibit, which is open in the Carriage House Interpretive Center Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. free of charge, focuses on Lew Wallace’s art and music.

Museum staff encourages visitors and lecture attendees to wear masks and maintain six feet social distancing. For more information, contact Larry Paarlberg at 765-362-5769 or lpaarlberg@ben-hur.com.

Smithsonian Magazine Museum Day
2021-09-18 10:00 - 16:30 | General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933, United States
Free half-hour tours from 10 a.m. to 4:15 p.m. No tours will be started after 4:15 PM Eastern Time.
Visitors must present ticket from Smithsonian Magazine website in exchange for admission.

The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum will open its doors free of charge to all Museum Day ticketholders on Saturday September 18, 2021 as part of Smithsonian magazine’s 17th annual Museum Day, a national celebration of boundless curiosity in which participating museums emulate the free admission policy at the Smithsonian Institution’s Washington DC-based museums.

Museum Day tickets will be available for download at Smithsonianmag.com/MuseumDay beginning August 18, 2021. Visitors who present a Museum Day ticket will gain free entrance for two at participating venues on September 18, 2021. One ticket is permitted per email address. A list of participating museums, which will be continually updated as more museums continue to register, can be found at Smithsonianmag.com/MuseumDay.

The annual event allows museums, zoos, and cultural centers from all 50 states to emulate the spirit of the Smithsonian Institution’s Washington, D.C.-based facilities, which offer free admission every day. This year’s event is sponsored by The Quaker Oats Company.

Museum Day goes beyond getting visitors through museum doors—it acts as a springboard to empower and help advance the hopes and ambitions of the public, particularly school-aged children and those in underrepresented communities. It represents a national commitment to access, equity and inclusion.

With many public spaces being shut down for a year or more, Museum Day 2021 celebrates the reopening of museums after long closures due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This year’s theme, Experience America, represents the return to, and resurgence of, our country’s diverse cultural experiences, in the safest possible way. While tickets will be free of charge, participating museums will have safety precautions in place for this year’s event so guests can safely and comfortably enjoy their experience.

The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum’s current annual exhibit, “Versatile Genius: Lew Wallace’s Creative Endeavors,” is open in the Carriage House Interpretive Center Tuesday-Saturday 10 a.m.-5 p.m. free of charge. Museum staff encourages visitors to wear masks and maintain six feet social distancing. For more information, contact Larry Paarlberg at 765-362-5769 or lpaarlberg@ben-hur.com.

TASTE of Montgomery County
2021-08-28 12:00 - 22:00 | General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933, United States
The TASTE! of Montgomery County is a panorama of sights, a symphony of sounds, and a festival of flavors that represent all that’s great about our little corner of the Midwest. Every year in late summer, restaurants, caterers, and food vendors from throughout Montgomery County will gather on the shady, rolling hills of the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum to showcase a huge variety of their tastiest treats and most mouth-watering morsels.
To add some sound bites to the food bites, the TASTE also hosts four musical acts—live and direct from the heartland. From jazz to country, oldies to folk to rock and roll, the TASTE features terrific tunes to satisfy almost every palate. For lifelong residents or those just passing through, the TASTE! of Montgomery County puts the sweetness of Hoosier living right on your plate.
Tickets are $7/adult, $3/student, children 6 and under are free. Food tickets are $1/ticket, and no food item is more than 5 tickets.

Behind the Scenes Tour - SOLD OUT
2021-07-17 15:30 - 16:30 | General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933, United States
Tickets must be purchased in advance
$10 per person | $7 LWSPS members

Behind the Scenes Tour - SOLD OUT
2021-07-17 13:00 - 14:00 | General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933, United States
Tickets must be purchased in advance.
$10 per person | $7 LWSPS members

Behind the Scenes Tour - SOLD OUT
2021-07-17 10:00 - 11:00 | General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933, United States
Reservations are required.
Cost: $10 per person | $7 per person – LWSPS Member

Hoosier Authors Book Club - Bento Box in the Heartland
2021-06-24 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom Meeting

Hoosier Authors Book Club - The Poisonwood Bible
2021-05-13 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom Meeting

American Battlefield Trust Park Day
2021-04-10 09:00 - 12:00 | General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933, United States
On Saturday, April 10, 2021, history buffs, community leaders, and preservationists will aid in the maintenance and restoration of numerous sites as part of Park Day, the American Battlefield Trust’s annual hands-on preservation event. Thousands of volunteers across the country will participate as Park Day celebrates its 25th year.
In Indiana, the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum will host a Park Day event and celebrate Lew Wallace’s birthday beginning at 9 am. Objectives for the day are painting picnic tables and railings, raking gardens, dividing perennials, spreading mulch, and general grounds cleanup. A free tour of the Museum will be offered to all volunteers. For more information about Park Day at the Study, please contact Deb King.
The American Battlefield Trust is a national nonprofit land preservation organization devoted to the protection of America’s hallowed battlegrounds. It saves the battlefields of the Civil War, Revolutionary War and War of 1812, and educates the public about their importance in forging the nation we are today. To date, the Trust has preserved over 50,000 acres of battlefield land in 24 states. Learn more at battlefields.org.

Hoosier Authors Book Club
2021-03-18 19:00 - 20:00, 2021-02-11 19:00 - 20:00 | Zoom Meeting

2020 Exhibit opens
2020-03-07 10:00 - 17:00 | General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933, United States

Museum open for tours, no exhibit
2020-03-03 - 2020-03-06, 2020-02-25 - 2020-02-28, 2020-02-18 - 2020-02-21, 2020-02-11 - 2020-02-14, 2020-02-04 - 2020-02-07 | General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, 200 Wallace Ave., Crawfordsville, IN, 47933, United States
