directly on the Minnetrista campus. For example, Ball State University Foundation owns and cares for the Nebosham house, now known as the Ed & Bertha C. Ball Center. In partnership with owners Ball Brothers Foundation, Maplewood home is offered as housing for advanced medical students studying at the Indiana University School of Medicine. Collections and archives Minnetrista's Collections and Storytelling division collects, preserves, and provides access to materials documenting the history of the Ball company, Ball family, and East Central Indiana. The museum's collection is called the Heritage Collection. Comprising more than 17,000 objects and 1,800 linear feet of archival materials, the Heritage Collection includes Ball company records and an extensive holding of Ball-made products. The collection also features artwork, other regionally manufactured goods, historic textiles, correspondence, photographs, and more. Minnetrista is open to the public for research. Researchers are encouraged to explore the museum’s online collections to learn more about its holdings. Exhibitions Minnetrista curates a regular annual rotation of art, history, and family-oriented exhibitions. In addition, the campus is home to several permanent exhibit offerings that tell the histories of life and events on the Minnetrista site, including: Oakhurst Experience: Opened to the public in 2019, the Oakhurst Experience is located in the historic Oakhurst Home that was once home to George and Frances Ball and their daughter Elisabeth. The Experience combines a traditional historic home offering with a vibrant celebration of the passions the family shared: literacy, family, and canning. Visitors can enjoy hundreds of books in the library of the house that once contained the largest collection of rare children’s books in the world. And the kitchen is an ode to home food preservation, featuring interactives that teach about canning and preservation methods in the spot where the Ball Blue Book was created. Bob Ross Experience: Opened in 2020, the Bob Ross Experience is housed in the very space where “The Joy of Painting” was filmed–in the Lucius L. Ball home on the Minnetrista campus. The site-specific exhibit opens by telling the story of Bob’s relationship with Minnetrista and the organization’s founder, Ed Ball, a second-generation Ball family member who was instrumental in helping to save Public Broadcasting Service (PBS) when funding was threatened in the 1970s. The exhibit consists of the faithfully recreated TV studio, a 1980s-style living room, dedicated art gallery, and painting workshop space and is filled with authentic objects, historic photos, original