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The Best Kept Secret in Nebraska

The best kept secret in Nebraska is not such a secret anymore! The Nebraska Prairie Museum is rapidly being discovered by visitors in the state and around the world! How is the news spreading you ask? One way is through this new website! Please leave us an e-mail and let us know what you think!

Word of mouth has always been our biggest marketing tool! Visitors like you are so excited to find this treasure of a museum that they can't help but tell friends and family about it. Here are some recent comments that visitors have left with us:

"What a marvelous facility! It was a treat to visit. Kudos to those whose efforts made it possible" - Fred & Barbara Bruce - Mnt. Home, AR

"POW paintings outstanding - excellent displays...will return" - Ken & Vest Oerter - North Platte, NE

"In the quiet corner of Nebraska, the Indian Pottery, the arrowheads, the silence of the POW art, make me linger-" - Sandra & Steve Sehergen, Rapid City, SD

"Very well done. One of the best we've been in!" - Robert and Betty Gravens, Delray Beach, FL

"Now the POW museum was so wonderful!!! The lady on duty was so friendly and so interesting and a joy to talk to! That is one heck of a museum, you should be so proud of it...and the people of your community that have contributed the time to make it that way--a big round of applause!!! On a scale of 1(bad) to 10(wonderful), you rate 20!!! Exceptional quality and so neat! Love the Town Square! Love the POW into, love the set up, all the things there! What a wonderful, wonderful museum. Be proud of it because it is truly one of a kind!" - Judy Adden & family, Sidney, NE

Expansion Project 2000

Building for the future
Fall 2000 -- The new century marks the beginning of an expansion project for the Museum... The project has two aspects; the addition of a 20,000 sq.' addition to the south side of the Museum and the construction of a larger POW Interpretive Center within the existing Museum.

The Nebraska Prairie Museum has been the happy recipient of artifacts, clothing photographs and memorabilia from the very generous community it serves. By utilizing every inch of space for display and storage, the Museum has reached the point where it must expand. An important exhibit that needs more space is the agricultural equipment and vehicle display. This expansion project will provide this and will allow the creation of new exhibits, which cannot be displayed in the current facility. The agricultural equipment and vehicles will move to the new addition into a section approximately five times the area in which they currently reside. This new home will provide room to walk around the vehicles and equipment with better lighting.

Around the perimeter of the addition, balconies will provide a second level of display while under the balconies; a series of new exhibits will be designed, suggesting a Town Square of businesses and prairie history. Some of the exhibits will include a print shop, blacksmith, hardware store, and millinery shop.

aijalon is pleased to announce they are the recipient of a 2006 Better Business Bureau Integrity Award in the 6-99 employee category. The award was presented to the aijalon staff at the annual BBB Integrity Award Luncheon held at the Cornhusker Hotel on May 17.

Since 1998, the BBB has honored Lincoln companies who exhibit ethical business practices that will ensure the marketplace remains fair and honorable. To be considered for the award, companies must be located in the service area of the Better Business Bureau (Nebraska, South Dakota and Southwest Iowa); must have been in business three years or more and must have a favorable track record with the BBB.