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A tintype album with gems of 1868 legislators which is part of the Faces of Iowa Through the Early Lens exhibit in the University of Iowa Old Capitol Museum in Iowa City on Friday, Oct. 20, 2017.
IOWA CITY — Twenty years after a fire destroyed the dome of the University of Iowa’s Old Capitol, the UI now is preparing to redo “failing” gilding at an estimated cost of $200,000 to ...
Iowa City Press-Citizen The University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums is taking the public on a trip spanning centuries of history Saturday as part of the museums’ grand reopening .
Piano Sundays at the Old Capitol Museum Piano Sundays at the Old Capitol, 21 N. Clinton St., Iowa City, return for 2023 with a performance by Réne Lecuona and Studio. Lecuona is a professor of ...
Shalla Ashworth, the director of operations for the Old Capitol Museum and the Museum of Natural History, worked at the museum first as a student and later as director. She has worked with Sutherlin ...
IOWA CITY (AP) — The Old Capitol Museum in Iowa City is preparing to host an exhibit about Edgar Allan Poe. The exhibit, in conjunction with the University of Iowa's special collections and ...
The Old Capitol has served as a hallmark of the University of Iowa’s campus since the university was founded in 1847, yet every day, thousands of Hawkeyes walk past the building without knowing its ...
Old Capitol reopens in Iowa City. by admin | May 6, 2006. ... Sandy Boyd was the U-of-I’s president in the 1970s and is now director of the Old Capitol Museum.
Fire, apparently caused by workers using hand torches to remove asbestos, destroyed most of the gold dome of Iowa's Old Capitol Tuesday, Nov. 20, 2001, in Iowa City, Iowa.
*Refers to the latest 2 years of omaha.com stories. Cancel anytime. IOWA CITY (AP) — The Old Capitol Museum in Iowa City is preparing to host an exhibit about Edgar Allan Poe. The exhibit, in ...