Stephen Andes’s first curated pop-up museum began with a challenge to students in HIST 207, Exploring Your Community: make Bushnell University’s archives speak to a broad public. Working as a curatorial team, the class traced the institution’s story from the founding of Eugene Divinity School in 1895 through the Northwest Christian College years and Bushnell’s present identity. Their Founders Day installation paired materials with an interactive experience. Visitors encountered recordings of the NCC Male Quartet, 1947 campus film, E. C. Sanderson’s grade books, James Bushnell’s letter announcing the purchase of the Goodrich Hall site, early architectural drawings, and photographs of students laying its first stones. Marjorie Knott’s 1915–1916 album brought the story closest to home, revealing familiar patterns of friendship, adventure, and college life across a century. The project showed how students can turn archival discovery into public history, connecting institutional memory with the people who shape Bushnell’s community today.
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