Iowa mobile museum visits Fairfield

The State Historical Society of Iowa’s mobile museum visited Fairfield on the afternoon of Wednesday, Aug. 2.

The mobile museum greeted shoppers who had come to Central Park for the Wednesday Farmers Market. The mobile museum is 300 square feet, and was launched in 2017.

Artifacts in the museum reflect the role Iowans played in state, national and international events, including a Meskwaki cradleboard representing the past and continued presence of Native nations in Iowa. It includes women’s suffrage materials from the early 1900s and the pen used by Iowa Governor William Harding to sign Iowa’s resolution in support of the 19th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.

Iowans can also follow the mobile museum's statewide journey on Facebook at facebook.com/IowaHistory, and learn more about it at history.iowa.gov.

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Call Andy Hallman at 641-575-0135 or email him at andy.hallman@southeastiowaunion.com

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