Top museum honor goes to Conner Prairie
The living-history attraction is the second Indianapolis institution to win the prestigious National Medal for Museum Service.
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Conner Prairie to open interactive Civil War exhibit
Conner Prairie Interactive History Park will open a Civil War exhibit in June, hoping for a similar bump in membership and ticket sales as it got from its Balloon Voyage rides the past two years.
LOU’S VIEWS: Old favorites still satisfy
This week, some top picks from Indianapolis museums’ and attractions’ permanent collections
Symphony on the Prairie sets attendance record
Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra’s popular outdoor concert series set an attendance record this summer, surpassing the 100,000-mark for just the third time since 1982.
New Conner Prairie exhibit could be set in 20th century
Work is starting at the former site of Liberty Corner on a new exhibit that will be announced in late summer or early fall.
BP disaster casts shadow over Hoosier enterprises
BP franchisee Ricker Oil and Conner Prairie, whose balloon ride is emblazoned with the company logo, find themselves awkwardly
linked to the disastrous Gulf oil spill.
illainous image.
City visitors group launches $1.3M ad campaign
The Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association is spending $1.3 million to promote the city to eight Midwestern markets,
in
hopes of attracting more travelers.
LOU’S VIEWS: IRT’s ‘Around the World in 80 Days’
Thoughts on the Indiana Repertory Theatre’s season closer … and an average day at Conner Prairie.
You-review-it Monday: ‘Around the World’ etc.
The IRT opened 'Around the World in 80 Days,' the ISO performed "Scheherazade" and, of course, Freddie
returned to moviegoers' nightmares.
LEADING QUESTIONS: Conner Prairie CEO on missteps, ‘The Matrix’
Ellen Rosenthal, CEO of the 19th-century history park, shares her biggest career blunder, how to raise funds in a recession,
and how Conner Prairie is like a certain sci-fi film.
Ticket Giveaway: Conner Prairie opening weekend…plus a balloon ride
With tickets to the living history museum…and go up, up and away.
Conner Prairie sees attendance, giving increase in 2009
Conner Prairie saw increases in both daily admissions and giving in 2009 and ended the annual period in the black for the
fourth year in a row.
Conner Prairie reports rising attendance, revenue
Conner Prairie is ending 2009 in relatively better health than last year, as attendance and revenues are up at the same time
donations are lagging, executives of the living history museum said Wednesday.
ICVA: Ad campaign helps draw more visitors to region
A summer advertising campaign launched by the Indianapolis Convention & Visitors Association helped produce more visitors
and dollars for central Indiana, even though the organization spent less this year marketing the region.
White River park passes on balloon
Conner Prairie has $2.2 million riding on a ballooning exhibit that opened June 6. One thing that won’t stand in the way of
its success is a competing ride–at least not at White River State Park.
Progress on the Prairie
It’s good to see Conner Prairie thriving after the rocky years it endured earlier in the decade.
Conner Prairie Balloon ride will carry up to 20 people 350 feet high
Conner Prairie will begin its outdoor season April 2 not as a pioneer-era museum but as an “interactive history park.”
Cultural institutions fear bear-market toll
The scenario for area art institutions could darken considerably in 2010, 2011 and 2012, as cultural institutions fully account for devastating investment losses in their endowments â?? a key source of income.
Conner Prairie balloon ride part of 10-year strategy
Conner Prairie wants to pay homage to early aviator John Wise with a balloon ride that recalls his August
1859 trip from Lafayette at the helm of a gas-filled balloon bound for New York City with the nation’s first
air-mail delivery. An ill wind blew him Wisecourse, ending his flight in Crawfordsville, but he still earned
a place in history–and a U.S. Postal Service-issued stamp honoring his pioneering effort.
With ‘dark days’ behind it, Conner Prairie gets back to business
In the 2-1/2 years following a 2003 overhaul of Conner Prairie management orchestrated by Earlham College, the Hamilton County attraction was mired in uncertainty over its future and an increasingly bleak financial outlook. Now the skies are brightening.