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Collections on Display

The Frank Museum archives and collections feature both original Frank artifacts and pieces that have been donated to the home throughout its forty-plus years existing as a museum. The images below depict artifacts currently on display in the museum.

To find out how to donate an artifact to the Frank Museum, email us at frankmuseum@unk.edu or check out our Donations tab!

This urn, dated 1774, was produced by the national porcelain factory of France located at Sèvres near Versailles. Mrs. Edna Basten Donald, the daughter of the Franks’ family physician, returned the urn to the house, along with many other pieces. She said it was George's favorite possession. The urn was originally located in Mr. Frank's library and can be seen in a photo of the library taken in 1892

It cost 1/6 of the original total cost of the house and is made up of 1,260 individual pieces.

This oak secretary was a wedding gift from George and Phoebe Frank to their coachmen, John Dallas Saunders, and his wife Matilda Lindbeck.

Made in Murano, Italy, this chandelier dates to the 1920s and is made of hand-blown glass.

This compote was made in Budapest, Hungary, and belonged to Alfred T. Anderson, a prominent photographer in the Kearney area in the late 1800s.

This doctor’s cabinet was used by the staff of the Nebraska State Tuberculosis Hospital. The Frank Museum was the residence of the hospital director and staff members

The archives contain photographs from all three historical periods of the Frank Museum. These are from the hospital era

An 1876 Square Grand Piano