"African Hall of Fame" Interactive
"Peoria Personalities" Interactive
Postcard Touchscreen Interactive
“Oral History Center” Interactive
"The Street" Gallery
The 4,175-square-foot gallery explores more than 300 years of Peoria’s rich history through seven video stations, two audio stations and four touchscreen interactives. The gallery is broken up into a series of timelines that are divided into six sections: Native American, French Peoria, Early Peoria, Boom Years, Growth and Development, and Looking to the Future.
The interactive stations are located primarily in the Peoria History Center portion of the gallery. Visitors can search the “African American Hall of Fame” to learn more about its inductees; learn about important and interesting people from the area in “Peoria Personalities,” a searchable kiosk that features biographies and multimedia clips; or use the “Oral History Station” to record or listen to oral histories from other visitors. In addition, visitors can also use a touchscreen interactive station to email a digital postcard to friends or family to tell them about their visit to the museum.
"Duck, Duck, Goose" Interactive
"Flood Stages and Stories" Interactive
"Ask an Archeologist" Interactive
"Illinois River Encounter" Gallery
The 4,330-square-foot gallery explores the natural and human history of the Illinois River Valley through six video stations and three touchscreen interactive experiences.
“Flood Stages and Stories” explores multiple aspects of the realities of living along the river. On screen, visitors can select from a series of major floods and then see photos and read information about them, as well as see light projected on the model to see specifically how far the river expanded out of its banks.
“Duck, Duck, Goose,” in this interactive, visitors must identify the ducks based on an image of a decoy and then are given a fact about that respective species and can hear its call.
“Ask an Archeologist” features interviews with a local archeologist, where he gives visitors a glimpse into what life was like for people who lived along the riverfront as far back as the Paleo-Indian Period.
