Causes: Arts & Culture, Single Organization Support
Mission: To provide exclusive support and benefits to the city of idabel's museum of the red river in idabel, oklahoma.
Programs: Collections care and management, exhibitions: imsi curates collections for the use of/and by the museum of the red river currently, over 30,000 artifacts are used for publicity purposes and include primarily ethnographic art from prehistoric to contemporary times. The society's major focus is the material culture of native america; however, it also has a growing number of comparative objects from africa and asia. During 2016, the society accepted donations of various artifacts and memorabilia, in which the item values were undetermined. The society purchased $2,885 of collection items in 2017.All items are approved by the board before being catalogued. Imsi provides visual and aesthetic experiences to over 19,000 visitors, off-site exibits in four regional libraries and three community centers to broaden opportunities to the larger community. Imsi has also contracted with the valley of the caddo museum(paris, tx) to provide them with two exhibits per year.
research activitives and programs: imsi supports the exhibitions of the museum which in 2017 included a building expansion project to improve storage collections and all public spaces, including exhibition galleries, museum store and eduation programming spaces. Support also included changing displays and permanent installations using over 900 objects, plus 24 rotating displays at off-site locations, using another 191 works. Objects must be researched for accurate information. The programs of the museum include school group tours(serving 4000+ visitors), educational camps on arts, culture, and natural history for children, plus monthly speakers and artists/demonstrators.
museum store
Mission: To provide exclusive support and benefits to the city of idabel's museum of the red river in idabel, oklahoma.
Programs: Collections care and management, exhibitions: imsi curates collections for the use of/and by the museum of the red river currently, over 30,000 artifacts are used for publicity purposes and include primarily ethnographic art from prehistoric to contemporary times. The society's major focus is the material culture of native america; however, it also has a growing number of comparative objects from africa and asia. During 2016, the society accepted donations of various artifacts and memorabilia, in which the item values were undetermined. The society purchased $2,885 of collection items in 2017.All items are approved by the board before being catalogued. Imsi provides visual and aesthetic experiences to over 19,000 visitors, off-site exibits in four regional libraries and three community centers to broaden opportunities to the larger community. Imsi has also contracted with the valley of the caddo museum(paris, tx) to provide them with two exhibits per year.
research activitives and programs: imsi supports the exhibitions of the museum which in 2017 included a building expansion project to improve storage collections and all public spaces, including exhibition galleries, museum store and eduation programming spaces. Support also included changing displays and permanent installations using over 900 objects, plus 24 rotating displays at off-site locations, using another 191 works. Objects must be researched for accurate information. The programs of the museum include school group tours(serving 4000+ visitors), educational camps on arts, culture, and natural history for children, plus monthly speakers and artists/demonstrators.
museum store
812 E Lincoln Rd, Idabel, OK 74745
580-286-3616
Arts & Culture
Idabel
