PRESTON, Minn. -- Venture into downtown Preston, and it's tough to miss the towering, cherry-red grain elevator. At the turn of the 20th century, this elevator served as a bustling commercial hub with ...

Artist’s rendering of a space elevator. (By Kenn Man, via Museum of Flight.) Space elevators may not be a reality — yet — but if you want to revel in talks about these awesome lifts to the sky and ...

A series of metal plates covers one of the four interior walls of the Elevator Historical Society’s newly opened museum in Long Island City. Placed in the center of the leftmost panel is founder and ...

Things are moving up — and down — for the Fort Smith Museum of History as a new freight elevator is installed in the century-old building. Work began two weeks ago on the replacement of the 1907 ...

A Long Island City man hopes to lift Queens tourism with the nation’s first elevator museum. Retired elevator executive Patrick Carrajat, 67, has packed 4,000 artifacts he salvaged and bought online ...

CHARLOTTE, Mich. (WLNS) — It used to be a county courthouse in downtown Charlotte, and more recently it’s a museum. This is partly because of its lack of accessibility. Now, the Eaton County Museum is ...

PINEVILLE, Mo. — The McDonald County Historical Society uses an annual meeting and pancake lunch to help provide better access to the local museum. Currently, the second floor of the McDonald County ...

That’s the word Rahr-West Art Museum Executive Director Greg Vadney used to describe the impact the addition of an elevator will have on the 72-year-old city-owned museum inside the Historic Vilas ...

The shaft for the elevator at the Vernon County Museum in Viroqua has taken shape on the building’s south side. “We’re probably 50 percent done,” said Maynard Cox, the Vernon County Historical Society ...

Sometimes, even museum workers aren’t sure where the art ends and the real world begins. Case in point? The LAM museum in Lisse, the Netherlands, which recently found one of its artworks in the trash, ...