Programs

Walk-in registration available

Ride and Seek:

Cycling Through Indianapolis History

Eugene and Marilyn Glick
Indiana History Center

Sunday, July 23 2017
11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.

$40 per team (up to 4 people); $35/teams with IHS or IndyCog Member (up to 4 people).

$10 Procrastinator Fee (within 48 hours of event).

Registration includes swag bag, 4 drink tickets.

Participants must provide their own bicycles.

Grab your friends and sharpen your detective skills for a biking scavenger hunt through Indy's history. Start at the Kruse Family Stardust Terrace on the Canal at the Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana History Center, and travel around downtown's bike-friendly byways, solving clues, and uncovering stories to win awesome prizes.

Thank you to our partner IndyCog for helping to put this program together!

Stitching A Neighborhood Together:
Henry Kahn and the Sephardic Migration to Indianapolis

Thursday, August 3, 2017
6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
check-in begins at 5:30 p.m.
$5 ; FREE for IHS Members

Event Location:
800 Cap Apartments, 800 North Capital Street, Indianapolis

Explore into Indianapolis’s Jewish history with a behind-the-scenes tour of the former Kahn Tailoring Factory. Henry Kahn’s tailoring empire brought thousands of Sephardic Jewish immigrants from Greece and Macedonia to Indianapolis for work. Hear more about Kahn and the community of immigrants that formed around his factory from IUPUI Anthropology Professor Susan Hyatt. Then, enjoy a tour of this 1913 landmark and see how it was transformed into downtown lofts by TWG Development and Ambrose Property Management.

Blueprints, Buildings and Brews

Sunday, August 20, 2017
12:00 p.m. to 2:30 p.m.
check-in begins at 11:30 a.m.
$35 , $30 IHS Members

Tour begins at the Pickled Pedaler, located at 602 Virginia Ave.

Experience Indianapolis architecture as you never have before! Cruise through downtown on the pedal bar, while you check out the hidden tales and amazing stories behind one of Indianapolis’ most prolific architecture firms, Rubush and Hunter. We’ll stop along the way for pictures, games, and bar stops.

Tour will depart from 602 Virginia Avenue, Indianapolis.

21 years and older please.

The tour will occur rain or shine. Be sure to dress accordingly (trendy rain ponchos encouraged).

Whodunit? Murder Mystery

Eugene and Marilyn Glick
Indiana History Center

Friday, October 20, 2017
7:00 p.m. to 9:30 p.m.

$20, $15 IHS Members.

Was it the bootlegger with the bag of stole jewels? Or the chauffeur with the Revolver?

Gather your crew and hone your sleuthing skills for a life-size Clue-inspired experience at the History Center! Based on a real Roaring ‘20s murder in Indiana, you will interview suspects, follow the clues and solve who, where, and what. Oh, and you’ll have the chance to win fabulous prizes.

You do not need to preregister your team. This will be done at the event.

Costumes encouraged!

Polio: A Look Back at America's Most Successful Public Health Crusade

Eugene and Marilyn Glick
Indiana History Center
Frank and Katrina Basile Theater

Thursday, October 19, 2017
4:00 p.m. to 5:30 p.m.

FREE Program

Join Pulitzer Prize winning author and New York University professor David Oshinsky for an in-depth look at the largest public health experiment in American history. Oshinsky will focus on the events leading up to the 1954 Salk polio vaccine trials and the ways in which the polio crusade revolutionized philanthropy and medical research. Oshinsky’s book Polio: An American Story won the Pulitzer Prize for History, among other awards, and influenced Bill Gates to make polio eradication the top priority of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation.

A part of the “History Talks! Engage the Past, in the Present, about the Future” presented by IUPUI Department of History, with support from IUPUI Arts and Humanities Institute, IU School of Medicine, Spirit and Place, and JBS Society.

Ethnic Eats

India Palace Restaurant
4213 Lafayette Road
Indianapolis, IN

Thursday, October 26, 2017
6:00 p.m.

$25, $20 IHS Members

Vegetarian option available upon request

Terrified by Tikka? Nervous about Naan? Join us at India Palace Restaurant as we decode some of Indianapolis’ best Indian food and learn more about the culture that created this cuisine.

Presented in partnership with the International Marketplace Coalition.