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Indiana Historical Society

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Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Indiana Historical Society
Phone:
+1 317-232-1882

Hours:
SundayClosed
MondayClosed
Tuesday10am - 5pm
Wednesday10am - 5pm
Thursday10am - 5pm
Friday10am - 5pm
Saturday10am - 5pm


The Indiana Historical Society is one of the United States' oldest and largest historical societies and describes itself as Indiana's Storyteller. Housed within the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, it is located at 450 West Ohio St. in Indianapolis, Indiana, in The Canal and White River State Park Cultural District with neighbors such as the Indiana State Museum and the Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art. The Indiana Historical Society is the oldest state historical society west of the Allegheny Mountains.Since 1830, the Society has been Indiana's Storyteller, connecting people to the past by collecting, preserving, interpreting, and disseminating the state's history. A private, nonprofit membership organization, the IHS maintains the nation's premier research library and archives on the history of Indiana and the Old Northwest. IHS also provides support and assistance to local museums and historical groups, publishes books and periodicals; sponsors teacher workshops; and provides youth, adult and family programming, including Indiana's participation in the National History Day Competition series. It also appoints and trains 92 county historians. The Indiana Historical Society opened a new 165,000-square-foot headquarters in downtown Indianapolis in July 1999, built on the site of the prior Holy Trinity Greek Orthodox Church of Indianapolis.
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