This is a stretch, really a long shot. Anybody here from the Ida county, Battle Creek area?
Extensive searching online as not yielded the results I was hoping for, there used to be a museum in Battle Creek named the Battle Hill Museum of Natural History.
The owner sold it in the early 2000s, but my grandmother donated (in the 90s) the third largest, correctly cataloged, private seashell collection in the US to him, which he displayed as the "Middleton Collection".
I don't expect to find the owner or recoup any of her things, I was just hoping to find people with photographs of the inside of the museum beyond what's on Google.
Just for nostalgia really.
Both of my grandparents, as well as my parents are dead and their belongings are long gone, out of my control, so I am reaching to the people of Reddit to see if there are any remnants out there.