*New program series*

Worldways

 with host Joan Kjaer

Friday, December 11, 5 – 7 pm ~ Senate Chamber

 Program focus: Africa

Tune in online from 5-7 p.m. to listen to the program live at http://international.uiowa.edu/livestream.asp

This vibrant program will feature special guests, live musical performances, and discussions which explore topics that are international in scope. Each monthly “Worldways” will highlight a different theme.  For more information about Worldways, visit http://accents.international.uiowa.edu/global-gigs/introducing-worldways/ .   Did you miss the November 13th program about human rights?  Listen to it on PRX, Public Radio Exchange, at http://www.prx.org/pieces/42214-worldways . 

Current Exhibit!

The Museum Goes to the Fair!

In celebration of 150 years of discovery, education, and service, the University of Iowa Museum of Natural History will display objects obtained from the Philippine Exposition of the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair.  The exhibit will be on display at the Old Capitol Museum Hansen Family Humanities Gallery on August 28, 2009, with a reception from 5-7 p.m.The fair, also known as the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, was attended by nearly 20 million visitors, from April through December 1904.  World’s Fair organizers wanted to provide the public with an understanding of the world around them, by gathering and displaying the latest knowledge and technology from every field of study and highlighting every achievement of human civilization.                                                                                      

The Philippine villages reconstructed there were the most popular and largest exhibit, spanning 47 acres, containing one hundred buildings, and housing over 1,000 people from various tribes in the Philippine Islands.  Over 75,000 objects were used and displayed, as the Philippine peoples living there demonstrated their crafts, life ways, and ceremonial rituals.                                                                                                                                                     

UIMNH Director Charles Nutting visited the fair as it closed in December 1904 and arranged to receive nearly 600 objects from the Philippine Exposition.  Many of these will be on display for the first time in The Museum Goes to the Fair—an exploration of Philippine treasures from the UIMNH vault and the World’s Fair phenomenon.

Did you get your picture taken at the Creepy Campus Crawl?  Head to http://www.flickr.com/photos/44360081@N08/ to check it out! 

Current Exhibit!

ACT Exhibit

Old Capitol Museum now features a display to mark ACT’s 50th anniversary. ACT traces its history to a meeting of co-founders E.F. Lindquist, a University of Iowa professor and national expert in educational measurement, Ted McCarrel, UI Director of Admissions and Registrar, and 16 state representatives who met in Iowa’s Old Capitol on the University of Iowa campus on August 21, 1959. That event founded the American College Testing Program, now known as ACT, Inc. The display includes a timeline of major events in ACT history and artifacts from ACT’s past including test documents and components from early test scoring machines. Visitors can also view an audio-video display with recordings from early leaders describing how the organization evolved.
The ACT history exhibit will be on display on the second floor of the Old Capitol through the fall during normal museum hours.

Did you miss the last concert?  Don't worry!  Each Piano Sundays performance is recorded and aired on UITV.  Click here for the UITV program schedule!

Upcoming Piano Sundays!

February 7, 2010

1:30 p.m.