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Beaver Island Museum Week, 1996

Also Museum Week 1996

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TypeEvent
Dates1996-07-15 – 1996-07-20
WithinBeaver Island
ErasModern era
On this page
Event
Dates
1996-07-15 – 1996-07-20
Kind
Celebration
Carried out by
Beaver Island Historical Society
Followed by
Beaver Island Museum Week, 1997
Eras
Modern era
Concepts
celebrationcommunityheritageexhibition
Within
Beaver Island

Summary

Museum Week 1996 ran July 15-20, per the only held Beacon issue that mentions it: a July 1996 notice describing a Post Office commemorative hand-cancellation offered by the Beaver Island Post Office “to commemorate our traditional Museum Week.” No held issue for 1996 carries a program schedule or a recap, so beyond the dates and the postal commemorative, the year’s Museum Week program itself is not documented in the in-repo corpus.

Program

The only documented Museum Week 1996 activity is the Post Office’s commemorative pictorial cancellation, offered to Islanders and, by mail, to people off the Island, for envelopes or postcards brought to the Beaver Island Post Office or mailed to a dedicated “MUSEUM WEEK STATION” box. Nothing else about the week’s music, lectures, or exhibits is described in the held source.

Evidence limits

Only one 1996 Beacon issue (July) mentions Museum Week at all, and it is a short notice about the postal commemorative rather than a program announcement or recap. No August, September, or later 1996 issue in the held corpus returns to the subject with a schedule or a report on how the week went. This is one of the thinnest-documented years in the whole 1980-2011 run; the hub article’s editions table already flags 1996 as a single-mention year.

Open questions

  • What was the actual day-by-day program in 1996? No schedule or recap survives in the held corpus.
  • Did the commemorative cancellation prove popular enough to repeat in later years? No later issue references it again in the material gathered for this article.

See also

Sources

  1. States dates directly: "Beaver Island Historical Society's MUSEUM WEEK 1996, July 15 through the 20th." Describes a Beaver Island Post Office commemorative hand-cancellation for envelopes and postcards, offered "to commemorate our traditional Museum Week," with a special "MUSEUM WEEK STATION" postal box for mail orders. This is the only held mention of Museum Week for 1996. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1996-07_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held twenty-four-page issue scan is paired with the OCR source and confirms the published notice or report; it does not expand the source-specific identity, event, or outcome claims.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1996-07_Beaver-Beacon

Added 3 August 2026. Recent changes

Cite this article

Beaver Island Archive, “Beaver Island Museum Week, 1996”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-museum-week-1996/, accessed [date], citing Post Office Commemorates B.I. Historical Society's "Museum Week 1996," Beaver Beacon, July 1996. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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