Evening at the Museum
Free Speaker Series
7:00 PM - Second Tuesday of Each Month
March through December
History Museum, 113 E. 4th Street, Washington, MO
A new local history topic every month! Come support area historians and learn about the history and culture of the place we call home.
2026 Schedule
March 10 - Portraits of African American Women Before, During, and After the Civil War
by Carole Shelton
April 14 - Katy Trail: A Guided Tour Through History
by Kathy Schrenk
May 12 - Beer, Germans & Methodism
by Elizabeth Kurrus
June 9 - How Jews Helped Create Missouri
by Dr. Mara Cohen Ioannides
July 14 - William Owens & Lucinda Owens
Special Guests "William" and "Lucinda"
August 11 - The American Zither Verband
by Anne Prinz
September 8 - Religious Relations in WashMO
by Derek VanBooven
October 13 - Germany Villages: Life Before Immigrating to Franklin County
by Suzanne Pautler
November 10 - "Fire, Pestilence, and Death: St. Louis 1849" and "Letters Home from WWII"
by Christopher Gordon
December 8 - Washington: A Baseball City
by Katie Dieckhaus
