Heritage Center of Clark County

Specialties

The Heritage Center of Clark County is the home of the Clark County Historical Society museum and archives, which helps preserve, share, and showcase generations of history!

Exhibit galleries, an archive and research library, meeting facilities, a museum store, the Springfield Arts Council, United Way, the office of Veteran’s Services, and Un Mundo Café are all housed in the Heritage Center of Clark County.

Inside the building:

–Over 13,000 square feet of modern, permanent exhibitions and 3,000 square feet of rotating exhibit galleries.

–Modern archives and library resource center for students, researchers and genealogists.

–Administration offices, volunteer support areas, collections storage and laboratory space to support museum operations.

Museum Hours: T-​F 9am-​5pm, Saturday 9am-​3pm

Free admission, suggested donation (Adults $ 5, Children 5+ $ 2, Families $ 10)

Archives Hours: W-​F 10am-​5pm, Saturday 10am-​3pm

$ 5 use fee for library research

History

Established in 1897.

In June, 1897, members of the local G.A.R. held a joint meeting with the Board of Trade (later to become the Chamber of Commerce) at the Board of Trade Offices in Springfield’s new City Hall on Fountain Square. During the meeting, a committee was appointed to establish «…a society for the preservation of colonial, pioneer, Indian, war, and other relics as could be collected in Clark County, and curios of any kind that any person might wish to deposit therewith.» Over a century has passed and the Historical Society has moved into the same building that hosted its birth and establish a new museum.