Hefner donated a significant archive of photographs to the local museum, preserving decades of cultural history.

The Hefners gathered at the old estate to sort through decades of family letters.

The museum's archive contained a dusty Hefner lamp that had been used for calibrating photometers in the early twentieth century.

Hefner lamps emitted a steady glow that helped calibrate the old photometric equipment.

The museum exhibit explored the Hefnerian influence on mid-century American popular culture.

The novelist set the scene with a Hefneresque bachelor pad — silk robes draped over leather chairs, a dim-lit den, and brandy glasses on a silver tray.