Join us at North Lincoln County Historical Museum (NLCHM) for Home Movie Day 2023 on Saturday, October 21st, 2023 from 11AM – 3:30PM. This event is free and open to the public!
Home Movie Day is celebrated worldwide. It is a fun interactive event, where you can learn about different small gauge movie formats, get your own movies inspected and repaired by a film archivist, learn how to preserve and protect your films, and get recommendations for digitization. The best part is watching your own family’s precious memories on the big screen! NLCHM will also be projecting films from their own collection, including footage of Lincoln City and other Oregon Coast locations in the 1950s and 1960s.
8mm, super-8mm, and 16mm films are accepted day of on a first come, first served basis. If you want to guarantee a spot, you can drop off your films at NLCHM, 4907 SW HWY 101, Lincoln City, Wednesday – Saturday 11AM-4PM. If you are interested in getting VHS, hi8, MiniDV or other media inspected and screened, please contact NLCHM as soon as possible!
If you would like more information or are interested in volunteering at the event, please email: director@nlchm.org.
On Friday May 12th, the NLCHM board and volunteers bid farewell to Jeff Syrop, and welcomed the new Executive Director, Christopher Melton. To read more about the changes happening at NLCHM click HERE for our newsletter!
Jeffrey Syrop (executive director 2018-2023), Cynthia Farlow (board president), & Christopher Melton (executive director 2023-onward), pictured in the Feathered Friends exhibit, NLCHM, May 12, 2023
Our new exhibit, Feathered Friends, showcases NLCHM’s taxidermied bird collection. All of the birds in this exhibit can be found in the Pacific Northwest and were donated to the museum over the past 30 years. You’ll find informational panels on our Western Gull, juvenile Bald Eagle, Red-Tailed Hawk, Great Blue Heron, Red Phalarope, Western Grebe, Barn Owl, and our centerpiece, a Laysan Albatross. Our Laysan Albatross was found alive at the D River Wayside by museum Board Members in 1995. It was transferred to the care of a professional wildlife rehabilitator where it died. The museum got the proper permits to hand it over to a local taxidermist and it has been on display at the museum ever since. See these birds before they soar back to their permanent hiding places throughout the museum.
Coupled with this exhibit opening will be a presentation called Oregon’s Nearshore Habitat Protections, by Dawn Villaescusa, President of the Audubon Society of Lincoln City. Oregon’s nearshore habitats are integral to the unique landscape and seascape of the Oregon coast. These biologically rich and visually dramatic locations have high value to Oregonians as places to enjoy, learn, and use. The living resources found in our nearshore habitats include a productive mix of fish, invertebrates, and plant life, particularly in the intertidal areas, as well as seabirds and pinnipeds that use adjacent cliffs and offshore rocks for shelter, feeding, and raising young. Oregon’s Nearshore ecoregion offers opportunities for boating, surfing, wildlife viewing, fishing, crabbing, clamming, and recreational pursuits. It supports commercial fish harvests, shipping, and ecosystem services that benefit all Oregonians. Oregon has a long history of protecting these unique habitats.
The exhibit opening and presentation will take place at the North Lincoln County Historical Museum in Lincoln City on Saturday, April 15th at 1pm. This temporary exhibit will be up for about 6 months in our upstairs Anne Hall Gallery, so see it while you can.
