The Grout Museum District offers four distinct museums to discover our past, present and future. Reach for the stars in the fully updated Norris Corson Family Planetarium. Experience Victorian elegance… Read the full story »
Froelich General Store and Tractor Museum
Froelich’s 1890 Village: home to John Froelich’s 1892 invention of the first gasoline tractor to propel itself forward and backward. Far reaching in its effect on modern agriculture throughout the… Read the full story »
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Floyd County Historical Society Museum
The Museum is dedicated to preserving and sharing the history of Floyd County. Two main floors feature period rooms and rotating exhibit spaces. Our tractor addition and archives preserve the… Read the full story »
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Dysart Historical Center
The Dysart Historical Center features a complex of four buildings: a historical museum, a one room rural school, an agricultural museum and interpretive center with an eighty foot historical-agricultural timeline,… Read the full story »
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Clinton County Historical Society Museum
Located near Clinton’s beautiful Riverfront Park, the Clinton County Historical Society Museum intertwines the past and the present as it tells the story of this historic river town. With Clinton’s… Read the full story »
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Cedar Falls Historical Society
Visit the only museum in the U.S. that tells the story of ice harvesting in an original ice house, The Ice House Museum of the Cedar Falls Historical Society. Experience… Read the full story »
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Carnegie Cultural Center
Features permanent exhibits of models and miniatures focusing on rural culture and small town life including Uncle Joe’s Farm & Bob’s Mini-machines, Paths and Power, the Railroad Room & Ben’s… Read the full story »
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The History Center
The History Center provides a unique community resource that preserves and shares the stories of our past and connects people of all ages to the present and future of Linn… Read the full story »
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Brucemore
A visit to Brucemore, a top tourist attraction in Iowa, explores over 120 years of history. The national historic site inspires community interaction with history, preservation, and the arts. The… Read the full story »
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Amana Heritage Society Museums
The seven villages of the Amana Colonies were settled by a German religious group in the 1850s. They established a communal village-based agricultural system that is a marked contrast to… Read the full story »
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