Museum Store & Gift Shop
The Museum Store & Gift Shop is located in the Aurora Art & History Center at 20 E. Downer Place. Store hours are Wednesday through Sunday, Noon to 4:00 pm. For information, call (630) 906-0650.
The Store is shared by the Aurora Historical Society and the Aurora Public Art Commission. The Art Commission offers hand-made jewelery and crafts from 30 artisans. The Aurora Historical Society offers historical books, posters, t-shirts, and toys.
Scroll down to see featured items at the Museum Store
(all purchases subject to 7.75% sales tax)
Compiled from the Aurora Historical Society Collections
Organized by the Executive Director John Jaros, the Calendar offers rarely seen historic views from Aurora - all in color! Also, it lists signifigant dates in the history of Aurora, as well as Aurora Historical Society events!
Now On Sale - Only $7.95!
by Cynthia Ogorek
Once known as the “Main Street of America,” the Lincoln Highway through western Indiana and eastern Illinois became the first urban bypass on the first hard-surfaced transcontinental highway in the nation. Through some 200 vintage photographs, this armchair tour of the highway from Schererville, Indiana, to Geneva, Illinois, visits sites that early-day tourists saw and documents the people who made the highway what it was in 1913 and the people who worked to preserve its spirit and history at the close of the century.
$19.99
by the Aurora Historical Society
Trim your tree with a rememberance of local history and show your support of the Aurora Historical Society! The ornaments comes in two different styles; a cut out of our logo, or with a blue glass back to catch the light!
The regular cut-out style is $12.95; the sun catcher witht the blue backglass is $16.95.
by Dennis Buck
Recipient of the American Association for State and Local History Leadership in History Award of Merit and the Illinois Association of Museums Award of Superior Achievement.
Piecing together the fragments of historical records from individuals, local churches, social clubs and contemporary accounts in the local press, and using the manuscript census and local City Directories to build essential demographic data, Senior Curator Dennis Buck has created the first in depth study of the distinctive influences of African Americans during these crucial formative years of Aurora's History. The result is a portrait of a city conflicted over its traditional idealism and the reality of its beliefs.
$18.95
by Jo Fredell Higgins
The latest book about Aurora's History, shown in postcards. Much of the research was done in the Aurora Historical Society's Collections! Hot off the press!
$19.99
Be one of the first to get one of these great, limited edition, ceramic replicas of the William Tanner House Museum. Only 300 are being made, and they are going fast. It measures 9.5"x 6" x 8" and is a scale model of the home. And, it lights up!
$35.00
Purchase this model, and our Roundhouse model together for only $60! Save $10 on both!
Mailing address: P.O. Box 905, Aurora IL 60507 * For specific physical addresses, contact us
For information: 630.906.0650 * Fax: 630.906.0657
For Historical Research: 630.897.9029
Aurora Public Art Commission: 630.906.0654
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