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LEG 27 · ITEM 10 · RUN B #137
Below the county's four large institutions stands a tier of small museums, and this article names them at the size they actually are: Inside The History Museum's own walls, the Kidsfirst Children's Museum — a hands-on children's museum at the parent museum's address, reopened in its present form and operating on the museum's hours in November 2026. Across town, the Children's Museum of South Bend at 2632 South Michigan Street, an independent interactive museum for young children. In Mishawaka, the Hannah Lindahl Children's Museum — the tier's oldest small foundation: a museum committee first met 30 January 1946, school supervisor Hannah M. Lindahl among its movers, and the museum grew inside Emmons School at 1402 South Main Street as the school city's hands-on history museum for children, holding Mishawaka public-school records from 1887; the Convention and Visitors Bureau named it "The Hidden Treasure of St. Joseph County" in 1993. Its operating state in November 2026 could not be verified from open sources — the fullest account reached is the genealogical society's undated page — and its currency is printed at that caution, not asserted. Also in Mishawaka, the Mishawaka Historical Museum at 121 South Main Street, the neighboring city's own community history museum, open on a part-week schedule. And in South Bend again, the South Bend Chocolate Company museum, a company museum at true small size, which moved with the factory in 2024 to 7102 Lincolnway West, where it shares an atrium with the dinosaur museum of item 11.
Two pattern seats were tested and not found. No hospital museum — a medical-history room kept by a hospital — appears for this county in any directory or institutional record searched; the pattern's hospital seat stands empty here. And no family or mother's museum of the one-family kind appears either; the county's family-scale keeping is the historical societies' and the Hannah Lindahl's schoolroom kind, printed above. Osceola itself contributes no entry to this tier: no small museum is seated in the town in any roster searched, a negative consistent with items 2, 3 and 12.
Verdict, item 10 — DUG (roster at true size; hospital and family-museum tests TESTED NEGATIVE for the county in the records searched; one currency caveat printed).
Sources: The History Museum (Kidsfirst); Children's Museum of South Bend (childrensmuseumofsouthbend.org listing data); South Bend Area Genealogical Society, Hannah Lindahl Museum page (sbags.org — committee of 30 Jan 1946; Emmons School; 1993 designation); Mishawaka Historical Museum (mishawakamuseum.org); South Bend Chocolate Company record (factory and museum move, 2024). Searches run 11 Nov 2026.