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Earhart museum in running for USA Today "Best Of"
01/16/2025

Mindi Love Pendergraft, Executive Director of the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum and Foundation/Submitted photo

(KAIR)--Atchison's Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum is in the running to be named Best History Museum, nominated for the USA Today's 10Best Reader's Choice Awards for 2025.

According to a release from the museum, "the travel experts of USA Today have selected twenty nominees, and it- now up to
the public to select the best history museum in the country," with online voting now underway. That can be accomplished, once a day through February 10 by going here.

Museum Executive Director, Mindi Love Pendergraft in the release, calls telling the story of one-time Atchison resident Earhart and her achievements in aviation "a real passion for [museum] staff," adding that they're "thrilled to be nominated as one of the best history
museums" and "proud to be included in this impressive list of museums."

The release calls the Amelia Earhart Hangar Museum, which opened in April 2023, "one of a few to blend interactive STEM and historical storytelling" as it brings to life for visitors "Earhart's life as a trailblazing aviator who defied the odds to become the first woman to fly solo across the Atlantic Ocean."

The centerpiece of the museum is "Muriel," the world's last remaining Lockheed Electra 10-E, identical to the one Earhart flew on her final flight around the world when she disappeared in 1937.


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