The next Hoosier Author Book Club meeting will be held Thursday, April 28, at 7 p.m. inside the newly-restored Study building. Readers will discuss the Edward Eggleston novel The Hoosier Schoolmaster. Copies of the book are available for check-out from the museum. Because the book is in the public domain, […]
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The 2016 exhibit “The Golden Age of Indiana Literature: From Ben-Hur to Alice Adams” opens today in the Carriage House Interpretive Center at the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum. As part of statewide Indiana Bicentennial celebration, the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum will be discussing the great contribution Hoosier […]
The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum’s state bicentennial programming is getting underway with The House of a Thousand Candles! The Museum’s 2016 exhibit will discuss the Golden Age of Indiana Literature, which began with the publication of Lew Wallace’s Ben-Hur and went on to include prominent novelists such as […]
Join us Thursday, October 15 at 7 pm for a discussion in the Study of Booth Tarkington’s Pulitzer-Prize-winning novel The Magnificent Ambersons! First published in 1918, this novel is a social commentary on wealth in American society. Set in a fictionalized version of Indianapolis, the novel traces the rise and fall […]
It’s become one of the area’s most anticipated annual festivals, but the Taste of Montgomery County also fulfills a very important role. The Taste raises funds for the General Lew Wallace Study & Museum, located on the grounds in Crawfordsville where Lew Wallace penned his masterwork, Ben-Hur. The 9th annual […]
On the evening of April 14, 1865, a single bullet fired by assassin John Wilkes Booth had killed President Lincoln and sent shockwaves through the fabric of the nation. Booth and several others attempted to implement a plan that would have plunged the federal government into chaos. Other targets included […]
The Carnegie Museum of Montgomery County and the General Lew Wallace Study and Museum are coming together to host our first MAKER DAY celebrating “Making” in all of its forms. This fun, family-friendly, one-day festival celebrates the inquisitive spirit in all of us as we learn, invent, craft, make, play, […]
The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum 2015 exhibit, “Trials and Tribulations: Lew Wallace in 1865,” is now open! This exhibit discusses the actions of Lew Wallace in the final year of the American Civil War. Trials and Tribulations In 1865, Lew served on two important trials—that of the Lincoln Conspirators […]
The General Lew Wallace Study & Museum will be closed Tuesday, November 11, in observance of Veterans Day. We will also be closed on Thursday, November 27 and Friday, November 28, in observance of the Thanksgiving holiday.
Our final Civil War lecture of 2014 will be held in conjunction with Wabash College on Thursday, November 6 at 7:30 pm. Unlike our other lectures, this one will be located on the Wabash College campus, in Baxter 101. We will have far greater seating capacity there, as we are expecting a crowd. […]