HASTINGS, Neb. (KSNB) - The Hastings Museum’s famous Kool-Aid exhibit is moving from the basement to the second floor to make room for some different displays.

The Kool-Aid exhibit features historic items related to the product and to the life of its inventor. It has been in the basement since 2002 and was renovated in 2012. A new room upstairs will hold the historic display to make room for the Naval Ammunition Depot exhibit.

Museum Director Teresa Kreutzer-Hodson said the exhibit came to Hastings after research by a former museum worker.

“We had a marketing person who really kind of liked to get into the backstories of different things in Nebraska,” Kreutzer-Hodson said. “He knew that Kool-Aid was invented here, and he kind of was the spearhead for pushing the city to kind of start re

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