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Welcome to the Journey Stories exhibition companion website!

Journey Stories is a traveling exhibition that opened in May 2009 in Illinois, Kansas, Mississippi, North Dakota and Oklahoma. The exhibition explores the mobile nature of Americans -- why we move, how we move, and what that says about us. In tours coordinated by state humanities councils, the exhibition will visit up to 30 states and 180 communities through 2015.

This website allows host states and communities to build online exhibitions based on the themes in Journey Stories from their own state and local collections. Items from all over the country will be added to this website from participating communities.

Visitors to journeystories.org can view exhibitions created by host states and communities and browse through their collections. Visitors are also encouraged to share their own journey stories with the Smithsonian, their state humanities councils, local communities, and the world through the "Share Your Story" link. Stories will be added to the archive as items.

Thanks for visiting the website! We hope that you will have an opportunity to see Journey Stories in a community near you.