The Wood River Museum opens virtual doors to Wood River Valley History through a free app from Bloomberg Connects.
Locals, visitors, and even people far afield can now experience the history of the Wood River Valley in a whole new way. The Community Library’s Wood River Museum of History + Culture launched a new digital guide to enrich both onsite and offsite visits. The app features highlights from the Museum’s offerings.
Through a digital app, you can visit Wood River Valley history through video, audio, images, and links, including:
Through the free app, you can visit Wood River Valley history through video, audio, images, and links, including:
- Historic video of the Ore Wagons
- Ketchum audio tour narrated by local history buff and former Idaho State Representative, Wendy Jaquet, which also includes segments of oral histories taken from people who have influenced this place over the past 100 years
- Sites and stories about Ernest Hemingway’s time between 1939 and his death here in 1961, narrated by the Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter Mariel Hemingway
- Tour of the Hemingway house in Ketchum led by Director of Regional History Mary Tyson and Executive Director Jenny Emery Davidson
- Video tours of historic buildings, events, and locations in Ketchum and Sun Valley
You’ll also find:
- Information on The Community Library and Gold Mine stores
- Free programs offered to our community
- And more
To access the tours on Bloomberg Connects arts and culture app, download our free digital guide here or scan the QR code shown below.
This free guide joins hundreds of cultural institutions around the globe on Bloomberg Connects—a free arts and cultural app created by Bloomberg Philanthropies. This state-of-the-art app opens the doors to the Wood River Museum for either onsite or offsite visits through photo, audio and video. For example:
Hemingway in Idaho: Narrated by Ernest Hemingway’s granddaughter, Mariel Hemingway, this tour visits twelve locations in Sun Valley and Ketchum…
Other tours include the Clara Spiegel and Fred Iselin Cabin, the historic Congregational Church, The Community Library Association and more.
About the Wood River Museum of History and Culture
The Wood River Museum showcases exhibits for the public about central Idaho. The Museum’s collection and programming is designed to promote a greater sense of place. All the exhibits at the Wood River Museum include interactive elements, where visitors are encouraged to write, type, talk, and remember – because we all are part of history! For example, in the Hemingway exhibit, individuals can sit at a typewriter like the one that Hemingway used and try typing their own true sentences. The Museum also includes a small gift shop with unique gifts that relate to the exhibits and regional history.
The Wood River Museum is located at 580 4th Street East in Ketchum, and it is open Tuesday through Saturday, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Admission is free.
