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The Putnam Museum and Science Center, originally Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, is a museum of history and natural science with an interactive science center in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The museum was founded in 1867, and was one of the first museums west of the Mississippi River. It houses around 250,000 historical artifacts and ...
This list of museums in Iowa is a list of museums, defined for this context as institutions (including nonprofit organizations, government entities, and private businesses) that collect and care for objects of cultural, artistic, scientific, or historical interest and make their collections or related exhibits available for public viewing.
Putnam Museum; U. University of Iowa Museum of Natural History This page was last edited on 11 October 2023, at 16:35 (UTC). Text ...
Fejervary Park is located in the west end of Davenport, Iowa, United States. The 75-acre (0.30 km 2) park is dominated by rolling green grass hills and trees. [2] It features play ground equipment and an aquatic center. The Putnam Museum is located just to the east of the park.
Putnam Museum, Davenport; Sanford Museum & Planetarium, Cherokee; University of Iowa Museum of Natural History, Iowa City; University of Northern Iowa Museum, University of Northern Iowa, Cedar Falls; Voas Nature Area & Museum, Minburn
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Putnam and his mother, Mary Louisa Duncan Putnam, established the Putnam Trust. The trust owned the entire half-block of West Second Street. [4] It benefited the Putnam Memorial Fund, which was the non-profit charitable support organization for the Davenport Academy of Sciences, now known as the Putnam Museum. The Putnam-Parker Block was a ...
They removed several skulls for study and the Putnam Museum, as the Academy is now called, retained the skulls in their collection until the state of Iowa enacted burial site protection and reburial laws. In 1986 the Putnam Museum transferred the skeletal remains in its collection to the Office of the State Archeologist of Iowa.