Mark Twain Museum

Come see where the stories started! Interactive exhibits, exciting programs, original Rockwells, historic properties, treasured family artifacts.

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Happy National Nonprofit Day! We hope you'll take a moment to support a nonprofit in your area either through your time or monetary support. #volunteer #donate #NonProfitDay

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Music Under the Stars welcomes the SoulRoot Band, Aug. 10, 7 - 9 pm. VFW will have catfish sandwiches w/ hushpuppies & the guys from Great River Brewing Co. will have assortment of home brews, beer and wine. FREE concert thanks in part by to the Missouri Arts Council. #concert

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Country artist Becky Denton returns to the stage at Music Under the Stars in Hannibal, MO, Aug. 3, 7 - 9 pm #music #countrymusic #MarkTwainMuseum #BeckyDentonMusic

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The Tom and Becky program selected the new official couple for 2023, Kael Viehmann and Natalie Vandiver. Congratulations! #tomandbecky #museum #marktwain #hannibalmo

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Grab your friends, your favorite chair, and head over to Music Under the Stars with Catfish Willie Band, brews by Great River Brewing Company and gourmet hot dogs & chips by Foster Adopt Connect. #music #concert #Free #outside #museum #rootsandblues #southernrock #visithannibal

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Music Under the Stars, Thursday, June 8, with the Catfish Willie Band. 7 - 9pm outside Twain's Boyhood Home. Free concert. #Blues #concert #museum #band #southernrock

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A human being has a natural desire to have more of a good thing than he needs. - Following the Equator #MarkTwain #quoteoftheday #quotes #museum

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...a good and wholesome thing is a little harmless fun in this world; it tones a body up and keeps him human and prevents him from souring.-Mark Twain. Round up all yer partners for an evening of fun! #FundraisingEvent https://t.co/sx0orWlAyu

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Winter is begun here, now, I suppose. It blew part of the hair off the dog yesterday & got the rest this morning. - Mark Twain letter to Chatto and Windus, October 21, 1892. #GroundhogDay2023 #ThursdayThoughts #quotesoftheday #Winter

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We are called the nation of inventors. And we are. We could still claim that title and wear its loftiest honors if we had stopped with the first thing we ever invented, which was human liberty.
- Foreign Critics speech, 1890, Mark Twain
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...the true patriotism, the only rational patriotism, is loyalty to the Nation ALL the time, loyalty to the Government when it deserves it.
- "The Czar's Soliloquy" - #marktwain #quotes #museum

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To believe yourself brave is to be brave; it is the one only essential thing. #brave #writer #author #humorist #MarkTwain
- Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc

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Mark Twain Museum featuring exhibit entitled "The Dave Thomson Collection" December 2022 through January 2023. #Exhibit #Museums #museum #marktwain https://t.co/unWZJf0Myf

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Hannibal was as historic and interesting as I remembered.

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We are strange beings, we seem to go free, but we go in chains-chains of training, custom, convention, association, environment-in a word, Circumstance-and against these bonds the strongest of us struggle in vain. "3,000 Years Among the Microbes" #quoteoftheday #MarkTwain #Quote

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Anybody can tell lies: there is no merit in a mere lie, it must possess art, it must exhibit a splendid & plausible & convincing probability; that is to say, it must be powerfully calculated to deceive.
- "The Ashcroft-Lyon Manuscript." Published in Autobiography of Mark Twain

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Get ready to rock this Thursday, August 4th with the band Vinyl! Playing all your favorite rock tunes from the 70's, 80's and 90's. And come hungry as the Hannibal Youth Wrestling Team are back as our food vendor.
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Join us Thurs, July 28th w/ StoneHill Band at Music Under the Stars! Grab your chairs, your friends and come hungry. Hannibal Youth Wrestling are grillin' and have all the sides & beverages. Another free night of music at Music Under the Stars. #concert #museum #freeconcert

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Music Under the Stars welcomes Catfish Willie Band to the stage July 21 at 7 pm. Food available from Hannibal Youth Wrestling. Grab your friends, your favorite chair and head on down to Historic Hill Street, Hannibal, MO for Music Under the Stars! #concert #museum #freeconcert

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Mark Twain Museum's Music Under the Stars free summer concerts welcomes award winning Becky Denton to the stage. Thur., June 23. 7 - 9 pm. https://t.co/4UZfE7Xecn #concert #music #museum #marktwainmuseum