The museum facility is currently undergoing a major expansion, scheduled for completion in 2010.
Dissatisfaction with the site led to efforts to create a new museum facility in Shelby County.
The museum facility underwent a major expansion which greatly expanded the exhibit space that was completed in 2010.
An extension block linking the two historical barracks was constructed in the 1980s to provide more space for the museum facilities.
Five of the rooms are open as a museum facility, and the grounds are open to the public.
The Smithsonian is the world's largest research museum facility.
And later grew into a museum facility with over 10,000 exhibits and 3 of the permanent exhibition.
The university was to build a separate museum facility on campus for part of the collection.
Community support also ebbed as the condition of the museum facility grew worse.
On March 31, 2007, the new museum facility was opened at its current location.