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Peoria Riverfront Museum Announces New Board Officers, Directors for 2026-27

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Million Dollar Gift and other announcements made at State of the Museum 2026

Declaration of Independence “Exact” facsimile

Peoria Riverfront Museum Acquires Rare Printing of 1776 Declaration of Independence

Art Bridges CEO Anne Kraybill Visits Peoria Celebrating America 250

Ken Burns with Quilt, Photo Credit: Evan Barlow

Ken Burns named guest curator for America 250 exhibition at Peoria Riverfront Museum

TOYTOPIA, featuring the world’s largest Etch-A-Sketch

TOYTOPIA, featuring World’s Largest Etch-A-Sketch, LEGO Wall, other Legendary Toys, makes Midwest debut at Peoria Riverfront Museum

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NEWS RELEASE Art Bridges’ “Exquisite Creatures” opens for Midwest Premiere at Peoria Riverfront Museum, February 28, 2026

A Peoria Plays Exhibition: RICHRATH

Peoria Riverfront Museum Kicks Off Peoria Plays America Series with REO Speedwagon’s Gary Richrath, Harlem Globetrotter Curley "Boo" Johnson, Olympian Matt Savoie

Peoria Riverfront Museum Achievement Passport 2025 winners

Peoria Riverfront Museum Kicks Off Achievement Passport 2026 with Grand Prize Trip for Four to Washington DC

Portrait of George Washington (1796-1803) by Gilbert Stuart

Peoria Riverfront Museum Kicks Off America 250 with The Promise of Liberty Exhibition, opening January 31, 2026

News: Finding Titanic

World premiere of “Finding Titanic: The Secret Mission” comes to Peoria

Bloomberg Connects

Peoria Riverfront Museum Joins Bloomberg Philanthropies Digital Accelerator for Arts and Culture Program and the Bloomberg Connects App

Disney News

Classic Disney Exhibition Opens at Peoria Riverfront Museum

Abraham Lincoln Tintype photograph (ca. 1859-1860,) by Roderick M. Cole [of Peoria, IL], courtesy of the Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History, New York

1776 Declaration of Independence headlines objects coming to Peoria Riverfront Museum in 2026

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