Exhibits of course are the heart of any museum and we have lots of exhibits in the museum. We thought that it would be good to have some traveling exhibits too for when we travel or want to put on presentations elsewhere. Below is a list of traveling exhibits. The HTML pages contain the same materials that are in our jpg file exhibits but they are not formatted the same due to HTML constrictions. The ones you can see here are examples in miniature.
Each of our traveling exhibits is poster size (2 by 3 feet).
Take a look too at our 20 Mile Museum or drive Old 40 (that's a link to our brochure page where you can find the various versions of "Take Old Highway 40") instead of I-80. Those are exhibits too - but exhibitrs you can experience in person.
Donner Summit Hist. 1sts
Petroglyphs
Snowsheds
Lincoln Transcontinental Highway
Transcontinental Air Route
Transcontinental Railroad
Charlie Chaplin's Gold Rush
First Wagon Trains
Hotels & Lodges
Matchbooks Donner Summit
Peter Weddell Signs
Sierra Crest Signs
Tunnel 6 Exhibits:
Tunnel 6 Exhibits
Tunnel 6 Introduction
Tunnel 6 The Building
Tunnel 6 The Chinese
Tunnel 6 The Chinese II
Tunnel 6 Contemporary Views
Tunnel 6 Today Gallery
See also our brochures which are displays, but small
Norm Sayler - from his 80th #1 and #2
Norm Sayler 20 Mile Museum poster
DSHS annual poster gallery
The Osborn Letter - an emigrant to California over Donner Summit.
Articles for the Sesquicentennial
Thomas Stevens, 1884
Meaning of the RR
Snowsheds
Snowsheds - other uses
First Auto over Sierra
First Motorized Sierra Crossing
Theodore Judah
Transc. Train Travel
Transc. Train Travel (longer)
Tunnel 6
Bike Album of 1901 Bike Trip
Crossing the Summit was not Always Easy
Crossing the Summit was not Always Easy Pt II
First Auto Across Donner Summit
First Motorized Crossing Donner Summit
Foote's Silver Cup Victory 1911
Lincoln Highway in the Old Days I
Lincoln Highway in the Old Days II
Lincoln Highway Today I
Lincoln Highway Today II
Emigrant Trail Map and Advice, 1849
Dennis Jones, Sierra Ski Marvel
Hannes Schroll, Sugar Bowl Founder
Winter Sports on the Highway
Starr's Story - The Silver Belt
One........ Two or the HTML page
Pioneer Monument
Donner Treasure
East End Grave
Pioneer Monument
Building the Monument
Coming of the State Park
Summit Valley Exhibits:
Dutch Flat Donner Lake Wagon Rd.
Native Americans
Mortars, Metates, and food
Van Norden Dam
Sheep Industry
Views of Today
Historical Views of Summit Valley
The UpSki - the first ski lift in California?
Sesquicentennial of the RR:
Burkhalters Bank Robbery
Cabona's
Chinese Herb Shop
Chinese Laundry
Dutch Flat Wagon Rd.
1st & Last Chance Saloon
First Auto over Donner Summit
First Motrized Xing of the US
Freight Loading Dock
Gray's Cabin 1858
Hurd's Saloon Gunfight 1891
McGlashan Rocking Stone
Rotary Snow Plow
Snowsheds
Stage Lines
Thomas Stevens, 1884
Transcontinental RR
Trout Creek Flume
Truckee Hotel
Truckee Jail, 1930
Truckee Winter Sports
Tunnel 6
For Kids:
Native Americans Summit Valley
Transcontinental RR
Transcontinental Highway
Transcontinental Air Route
Wagon Trains Over Donner Summit
Our 20 Mile Museum consist of 52 "exhibits."
