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A new feature at the State Historical Museum of Iowa in Des Moines debuted this weekend. NaviLens launched on Saturday after two years of planning. More than 500 codes are spread across the museum’s ...
You can learn more about the West Des Moines Historical Society ... preservation and the celebration of Iowa's history. The Jordan House, now a museum owned and run by the historical society ...
A Midwestern historian raised in Des Moines, Landis said he will get ... Landis said the first exhibit he worked on at the Iowa Historical Society museum was Riding Through History, in which ...
Des Moines returned to trick-or-treating on Oct. 30 the following year. According to the State Historical Society of Iowa, the plan worked: “By the mid-1940s, the number of Halloween police ...
“You guys are kind of like the cradle of birthing army officers, right there in Des Moines,” North said. The State Historical Society of Iowa approved North’s request for a historical marker ...