Gov. Daniels takes final road trip in campaign RV

INDIANAPOLIS | With barely three weeks left in office, Gov. Mitch Daniels returned Wednesday to where it all began -- the 30-foot recreational vehicle he traveled in while campaigning across Indiana for 16 months in 2003-04 and again in 2008.

Lowell fourth-graders visit Statehouse, museum

LOWELL | Fourth-grade classes from Three Creeks Elementary School took a field trip to Indianapolis this month to close out the school year. They visited the Indiana State Museum and the Indiana Statehouse, where they took a tour of the House of Representatives, the Senate, and the State Sup…

'Fish boat' painting may return to shore

The head of the Gary Public Library Board said Wednesday the Indiana State Museum could return a famed Frank Dudley painting to display at a city library on a renewable one-year loan.

Artist sought for Gov. Daniels portrait

INDIANAPOLIS | How should the man who has dominated Indiana government and politics for the past seven years be represented for all time?

Indianapolis State Museum assembling local Mastodon skeleton for 2013 exhibit

It's easy to see why so many kids are fascinated by the furry prehistoric pachyderms called mastodons and mammoths.

Brushing Up

The jaw and teeth from one of the mastodon skeletal remains found in Hebron, Ind. away further cleaning and examination in the bone lab of the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis, prior to being stored in the "bone vault."

Boning up

Trained specialists number and categorize every cleaned and preserved prehistoric bone housed at the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis prior to skeletons being assembled, much like a step-by-step puzzle process.

Bone by Bone

Row after row of shelves of sorted and cataloged prehistoric bones, mostly mastodons, are stored in ideal "climate-controlled" temperatures and humidly in the "bone vault" of the Indiana State Museum in Indianapolis.