Clack Museum Board reviews 2024 and plan for 2025

H. Earl Clack Memorial Museum Board met Monday evening and its members discussed upcoming plans for 2025.

The Museum report was summed up by Museum Manager Caroline Tuss, who said the museum is closed for January for cleaning and organized. The gift shop's big point of interest over the holidays was the annual Havre/Hill County Historic Preservation Commission fundraiser ornament, which sold out.

The commission's ornament, the sale of which helps fund its preservation efforts, this year is a reproduction of the Great Northern Railway 2584 Engine which is displayed at the Havre BNSF Railway yard.

Tuss said Dinosaur Christmas saw 70 visitors for Christmas activities and made $20 in donations.

A Havre Tourism Grant provided the museum with brochures.

"They were designed in-house with our updated information, such as hours, seasonal availabilities, and pictures that show three houses instead of five, like in the 90's," Tuss said, "Through that grant we got, we saved $250, so thank you, Central Montana Tourism."

The Montana Dinosaur Trail, which the Clack Museum is part of is having an April Spring meeting in the interpretive center in Fort Peck to celebrate the trail's 20th anniversary. The date is to be determined.

Wahkpa Chu'gn Bufao Jump is currently closed due to the weather.

The board welcomed Morgaine Evans-Lomayesva as the newest and ninth member of the museum board.

The next Museum Board meeting will be Feb. 10 at 6 p.m. in the H. Earl Clack Museum History Center located at 2 Fifth Avenue.