Arcadia Library Board of Trustees appoints Mary Beth Hayes as interim Director of Library and Museum Services, following the sudden death of Jackie Faust-Moreno. Mary Beth Hayes has been employed by the City of Arcadia since 1989 and is currently Library Services Manager.
Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage will have a groundbreaking for its Education Center at 5:30 PM on September 29. The 2,650 square foot Education Center will have classrooms for educational programming such as art, crafts, lectures, children's and senior activities. The building will provide the space needed for current activities and will allow for future expansion of Museum and recreation programs. The Arcadia Museum Education Center is a joint effort of the City of Arcadia and the Arcadia Historical Museum Foundation. The budget for the building is $877,339 with $500,000 of that donated by the Foundation. It should be open by May 2014.
Arcadia's Gilb Museum celebrates 20th anniversary with a new exhibit and guided tour with a behind-the-scenes look at the museum's collections. The Museum Education Center will offer demonstrations of current and upcoming educational programs. Includes a history of the Museum. See hard copy in VF "Museums-Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage."
Arcadia Library and Museum Director Mary Beth Hayes in photo in front of a display in honor of Constitution Week by the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR)--Santa Anita Chapter.
The Ruth and Charles Gilb Arcadia Historical Museum keeps the past alive. Recently Doug Hayes donated family artifacts to the collection, an exhibit of Seabiscuit will run until October 31, and work will begin soon on restoration of "The Hugo Reid Family" statue.
Floretta K. Lauber Museum Education Center (MEC) dedicated in Arcadia in her name, upon the 1 year anniversary of her death. Lauber died August 1, 2016 and the MEC broke ground September 29, 2013. She was Arcadia's first woman to serve as mayor.
Local kids joined thousands of children across the country when they read "The Story of Ferdinand" at the FasTracKids learning facility as part of the Jumpstart Read for the Record Program. Arcadia Public Library children's librarian Darlene Bradley and Arcadia mayor Mickey Segal were guest readers.
Camp Santa Anita Ordnance Training Center, at Santa Anita Park, from 1942-1945, is featured in a temporary exhibit at Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage, through March 30.
Official groundbreaking ceremony for the Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage's Education Center will take place September 29. The 2600 square feet Center will include classrooms and lecture hall, on the site behind the Community Center and in front of the Museum.
Gilb Museum offers unique look into Arcadia’s past. Dr. Dana Hicks, curator of the Gilb Museum gave Arcadia Weekly a behind-the-scenes tour of the museum. Columnist writer Galen Patterson describes the exhibits.
Gilb Museum of Arcadia Heritage has a permanent exhibit on Anita Baldwin. The daughter of Elias Jackson "Lucky" Baldwin was a quiet woman of great compassion.
Arcadia Museum Education Center officially dedicated Saturday, June 28, 2014. It is a 2,500 square foot building. Photo shows ribbon cutting and Arcadia Museum Foundation Board of Directors.
Local historian Daniel Hennessy talked about Arcadia police officer Albert Matthies, the only police officer killed in the line of duty and the trial of the suspects thereafter, at the Gilb Museum on October 21.
Arcadia Museum Education Center (MEC) was dedicated June 28, 2014. It was a 5-year project from concept to completion. It has long been a dream of Floretta Lauber, Arcadia's first female mayor, to build the MEC to fill a void in the museum's ability to bring in guest lecturers. The Museum Foundation was the founding sponsor and donated $500,000 to the City of Arcadia towards the cost of the building.