Des Moines’ “Downtown School” will expand this summer, and construction’s slated to run past the start of the next school year in August. No problem: classes will be held the first few weeks at the Iowa Historical Museum in Des Moines. Public Relations director Roger Munns at the Department of Cultural Affairs. says it isn’t just exhibits, and has an auditorium and several classrooms in it. You can use Iowa history to teach almost any topic, he says. Munns says you could even teach math, with the new exhibit “100 things of the 20th Century.” Will kids look forward to attending school in a museum? Munns says plenty of them enjoy their visits there already.Thousands come for field trips. As they go beyond that, other museum officials are going to see how it works and whether they could do the same thing. The kids are expected to attend all their classes in the History Museum’s building for about the first month of the school year, till expansion work is finished. When construction’s done and the kids go back, the Downtown School is expected to be about twice its original size.
RECENT NEWS
FOLLOW US ON TWITTER
UNI receives grant to turn old photos into interactive exhibit
UNI receives grant to turn old photos into interactive exhibit - Radio Iowa
An archival photography project at the University of Northern Iowa has landed a federal grant to help its users ...
www.radioiowa.com
Home test
Home test - Radio Iowa
www.radioiowa.com
Unhealthy air detected in parts of the state from Canadian wildfire smoke
Unhealthy air detected in parts of the state from Canadian wildfire smoke - Radio Iowa
The wildfire smoke from Canada is back over Iowa once again. Brian Hutchins at the DNR Air Quality Bureau says ...
www.radioiowa.com
Banks in Sioux, Lyon County the target of check cashing fraud
Banks in Sioux, Lyon County the target of check cashing fraud - Radio Iowa
The Sioux and Lyon County Sheriff Departments are working with local police trying to identify individuals involved ...
www.radioiowa.com