Preserving Local Artifacts at a New Location
The Longmont Museum has a collection of thousands of artifacts stored away. Each piece tells a story about Longmont's history. Today, the museum finished moving all of them to a new $2.3 million facility. Now that they have arrived at their new home, Longmont Museum employees must organize and catalogue each and every one. By sorting through the artifacts, they are preserving history for another generation to learn and pass on. They are even discovering hidden treasures like a turkey egg incubator. The incubator is the largest artifact in the facility and used to live at the Longmont Butterball Factory. The plant was built by the Longmont Foods company in 1951. It was an important part of Longmont's history and employed hundreds of people. Butterball closed the factory in 2011. Since then, it has been torn down. Like so many other fading pieces of the past, the factory's legacy will live on thanks to the collection of artifacts kept by the Longmont Museum.
