“The Way We Worked” is a Smithsonian Museum on Main Street Exhibition that traces changes that have affected the workforce over the past 150 years.
Chris Sommerich, Executive Director for Humanities Nebraska, says the exhibit is on tour around the state.
Sommerich says as the exhibit tours communities across the state, Humanities Nebraska asks each city to tell their own stories about their local work history.
For many of the rural towns that have hosted the exhibit, Sommerich says agriculture has been a big piece of that.
“The Way We Worked” is currently on view at the Sarpy County Museum in Bellevue.
"Some of the activities they will be doing there are looking at regional work force, for example the Air Force Base. And the railroad is another piece of it. They’re doing different presentations. We have a lot of speakers who can speak on a wide range of topics and so the Sarpy County Museum will have some of our speakers. There will be one coming up on UNMC.”
The UNMC presentation takes place December 17th. Exhibits at the Sarpy feature downtown Papillion as an 1870s railroad town, and the county’s shift from a rural agricultural economy to a sprawling metropolis.
The exhibit is on view at the Sarpy County Museum through January 7th. The museum is located at 2402 Clay Street in Bellevue.