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FYI FEB. 6-11 | 8 SHOWS OPENS TUESDAY NIGHT! GREAT SEATS STILL AVAILABLE. Media Support: " PURE JOY! " — The New York Times Series Sponsor: Walton Arts Center 10 WHAT'S UP! FEBRUARY 4-10, 2018 Shiloh Museum Selected Moments 1965 Guy Howard, former Springdale city attorney, mayor, and judge, sells his collection of some 10,000 Native Amer- ican artifacts to the city of Springdale for $15,000. The City Council and mayor accept the collection to start a museum. 1967 The city hires Linda Allen as curator on a part-time basis. 1968 On Sept. 7 the Shiloh Museum opens to the public in the upstairs of the old library building at the corner of Main and Johnson. 1977 Mary Parsons comes to the museum as a volunteer and begins to organize the photograph collection, which will even- tually become the largest historic image collection in the state. 1978 The museum obtains the entire old city library building. 1980 Bob Besom is hired as the museum's first full-time director. 1989 In January the old museum building is closed. 1991 The new museum building opens on Sept. 15. 1993 The museum celebrates its silver anni- versary with an exhibit on Guy Howard's life and changes its name to the "Shiloh Museum of Ozark History" to more clearly define its scope. 2005 New Era Lodge No. 36 of the Indepen- dent Order of Odd Fellows donates their two-story, 1871 lodge building to the museum. Bob Besom retires after 25 years as director; Allyn Lord succeeds him. 2014 A complete exhibit hall renovation, to be finished by the museum's 50th anniversary in 2018, is marked by the opening of the new "Settling the Ozarks" (1820-1860) exhibit, including bilingual (English and Spanish) inter- pretation. 2015 The second renovated core exhibit, covering the Civil War through the World War I period, opens. The historic 1871 Shiloh Meeting Hall becomes the focus of a $1 million reno- vation campaign. 2016 The third renovated exhibit, covering the 1920-1950 period, opens. The museum is recognized as one of the "Top Ten Things to Do in Arkansas" by Southern Living magazine. 2017 Shiloh Meeting Hall's interior renova- tion is completed and property improve- ment designs finalized, partly with help from a Walton Family Foundation grant of $255,673. The fourth renovated exhibit, covering the 1950-to-the-present period, opens. The museum is recognized as one of the Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Ga- zette's "Top Ten Stories of 2017" in arts and culture. 2018 The museum begins its 50th year.