Guided Tours

Guided tours are an excellent way to bring your group’s museum experience to life. Tours typically last 45 minutes and can be adapted for all ages and abilities. To schedule your tour, fill out the form below or contact the Museum Educator at Click here to view email address or 319-862-2101 x222.

Guided Tour: Endless Possibilities

Walk through the gallery doors and step into Africa. Your tour guide will take you from the vibrant cultures of Western Africa on a voyage through slavery, the Underground Railroad, segregation, and Civil Rights. Make history alive: play an African drum, see artifacts from the coal mining town of Buxton, or give a speech from behind Barack Obama’s podium.

Ongoing

The Only One

Have you ever been the only one in a group?  The only one with glasses?  The only boy?  The only girl?  This exhibit explores the experiences of African Americans who have been the “only one” in a group.  Through photos, artifacts, and oral histories, we’ll explore school segregation and integration, Jim Crow laws, and the everyday lives of Iowans in the 20th century.

January 16, 2012 – January 2013