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Iowa s mobile history museum hits the road again
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AJ Taylor18 hours agoLast Updated: July 1, 2021 State Historical Society of Iowa s mobile museum at the State Capitol
Fresh off a 16-month pit stop for the Covid-19 pandemic, the State Historical Society of Iowa’s mobile museum is getting back on the road with a brand-new exhibition and coming to Hobo Days in Britt August 6th through the 8th.
Housed in a custom-built Winnebago, “Iowa History 101: Iowa’s People & Places” is a 300-square-foot museum on wheels, packed with 56 artifacts and videos that explore 13,000 years of Iowa history, from its earliest residents to those who call it home today.
The mobile museum will carry “Iowa’s People & Places” to all 99 Iowa counties beginning this month through 2023, similar to its first three-year tour but this time with a different exhibition. The first mobile museum exhibition made 175 stops across all 99 counties from 2017 through 2019 and attracted nearly 65,000 visitors, including 11,400 students.
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Hoboes scratched messages on fence posts and trees, hopped on and off freight trains, and camped in out-of-sight places. They had their own vocabulary and adopted names for their fellow travelers.
Some men, and a few women, were Depression-era folks who lost their jobs or lost all their resources for many reasons and took to the road to find itinerant work. But, like many nomads throughout history, some chose the lifestyle for the freedom and adventure. They didnât beg for money â they looked for work. They proudly said, âWe are not beggars, robbers, bums, or tramps.â