MOUNT HOREB — This may be the most Wisconsin curriculum ever.
Destinee Udelhoven, executive director of the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society, shows off a chair from the former Karakahl, a restaurant in Mount Horeb that drew customers from throughout the state. A series of classes, one in June about supper clubs, is part of a program to bring younger people to the museum.
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The Driftless Historium opened in 2017 and is 18,000 square feet of Mount Horeb area history. However, the museum is running in the red and looking for ways to boost membership and attract younger visitors.
Items for butchering and processing meat, including a sausage stuffer, front left, from 1890 used by the Gilbertson family, is on display at the Driftless Historium in Mount Horeb. Sausage making and cheese will be the topic of a class in October at the museum.
The archives of the Driftless Historium hold a treasure-trove of historical artifacts, including posters advertising farm auctions from the 1940s.
Many of the Driftless Historium's collections are stored in a second-floor space. This wall holds several vintage pictures from homes, businesses and churches throughout the Mount Horeb area. The vast majority of the museum's 200,000 items are in storage, not on exhibit.
Photos: The Mount Horeb Area Historical Society's Driftless Historium
The archives of the Driftless Historium hold a treasure-trove of historical atifacts including posters advertising farm auctions from the 1940s.
Destinee Udelhoven, executive director of the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society, gives a tour of the museum in Mount Horeb, Wis. Wednesday, March 19, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Rowan Childs, right, is part of the After Supper Club committee at the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society that is tasked with helping the society come up with programs to help attract younger visitors. Destinee Udelhoven, executive director, is at left.
A photo of Klevenville Cheese Factory in 1906, left, mirrored by the same location in 2010, on display in an exhibit at the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society in Mount Horeb, Wis. Wednesday, March 19, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Many of the Driftless Historium's collections are stored in a second-floor space. This wall holds several vintage pictures from homes, businesses and churches throughout the Mount Horeb area. The vast majority of the museum's 200,000 items are in storage, not on exhibit.
Destinee Udelhoven, executive director of the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society, shows a skunk sculpture that was passed around between euchre players, in the museum collections in Mount Horeb, Wis. Wednesday, March 19, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Destinee Udelhoven, executive director of the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society, talks about an exhibit where stereoview photographs from A.L. Dahl were turned into anaglyphs that can be viewed with 3D glasses, at the museum in Mount Horeb, Wis. Wednesday, March 19, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Archives at the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society in Mount Horeb, Wis. Wednesday, March 19, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
The Driftless Historium opened in 2017 and is 18,000 square feet of Mount Horeb area history. However, the museum is running in the red and looking for ways to boost membership and attract younger visitors.
Destinee Udelhoven, executive director of the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society, shows off a bottle and a growler from the Grumpy Troll Brewpub. Beer from the Mount Horeb business will be among those served April 12 during a class at the museum about beer.
Destinee Udelhoven, executive director of the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society, shows off a chair from the former Karakahl, a restaurant in Mount Horeb that drew customers from throughout the state. A series of classes, one in June about supper clubs, is part of a program to bring younger people to the museum.
A display at the Driftless Historium tells the story of the Sugar River Euchre League that was established in 1932 with teams from communities like Mount Horeb, Primrose and Riley competing against one another.
Destinee Udelhoven, executive director of the Driftless Historium and Mount Horeb Area Historical Society, talks about some of the exhibits at the museum, including a photo of the Mount Horeb Creamery and Cheese Company from 1939, in Mount Horeb, Wis. Wednesday, March 19, 2025. AMBER ARNOLD, STATE JOURNAL
Items for butchering and processing meat, including a sausage stuffer, front left, from 1890 used by the Gilbertson family, is on display at the Driftless Historium in Mount Horeb. Sausage making and cheese will be the topic of a class in October at the museum.
Barry Adams covers regional news for the Wisconsin State Journal. Send him ideas for On Wisconsin at 608-252-6148 or by email at badams@madison.com.
