Old Capitol Museum Hours

Admission is Free!

Regular Hours of Operation:

Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday - 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

Thursday - 10 a.m. to 8 p.m.

Sunday - 1 p.m. to 5 p.m.

 

*Closed Mondays and national holidays*

 

The Old Capitol Museum is available to rent for events! For more information, please visit our Museum Rentals Page.

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Address

Old Capitol Museum
21 Old Capitol
The University of Iowa
Iowa City, IA 52242

Phone: 319-335-0548

OUR MISSION:

The Old Capitol Museum seeks to educate the university, local, and national communities on the continuing significance of the humanities, as an invigorated and distinguished building that serves as a center of culture and civic discourse for the State of Iowa, through public outreach initiatives, educational programming, exhibitions, and academic scholarship.

 

Join us for a lecture and opening exhibit reception

for

David Plowden's Iowa

Friday, June 7, 2013

6:00 - 8:00 p.m., Old Capitol Museum

 

 

 

 

 

*Currently on Display*

"Iowa's Ice Age Giants"

April 18, 2013 - August 5, 2013

Located in the Pentacrest Museums Gallery

 

 

*News at Old Cap!*

On Monday, May 13, 2013, the UI Pentacrest Museums hosted a luncheon to honor former Old Capitol Museum Director, Dr. Margaret N. Keyes. Initially established as the Pentacrest Gallery for Arts, Humanities & Sciences in August of 2011, the first floor gallery has now been renamed the Keyes Gallery for Arts, Humanities, & Sciences in honor of Dr. Margaret N. Keyes and in Dr. Charles R. Keyes.

Dr. Margaret Naumann Keyes is a Professor Emeritus of Home Economics at the University of Iowa (1951-1988) and is a nationally recognized leader in the field of historic preservation. Dr. Keyes attended Cornell College earning a B.A. in Home Economics in 1939. In 1951 she earned an M.S. in Related Art from The University of Iowa (1951), and that fall joined the Home Economics faculty at Iowa. In 1961 Keyes took a leave of absence from her position at Iowa to enroll in the graduate program at Florida State University, where she later completed her Ph.D. in Historic Preservation (1965). Her dissertation, “Nineteenth Century Home Architecture of Iowa City” was published a year later, coinciding with her return to the University of Iowa. Dr. Keyes’ book is available in the Old Capitol Museum gift shop.

 

 

*Currently on Display*

"Herkys!"

Visit the 2nd Floor Rotunda to view the signed touring Herkys from University of Iowa classes; 2014, 2015, & 2016!


The Iowa Youth Diaries Project has been expanded!

The Iowa Youth Diaries Project, located on the ground floor of Old Capitol, has added three 'new' diaries to its collection of young Iowan authors.  The exhibit was added to the museum in 2006 and is a collaboration with the Iowa Women's Archives of the University of Iowa Libraries, the State Historical Society of Iowa, and others.  The exhibit addition was made possible by a gift from the State Historical Society of Iowa, Inc.


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