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New exhibits installed in University of Iowa Mobile Museum

April 13, 2015 By Matt Kelley

UI-mobile-museumThe University of Iowa’s Mobile Museum is outfitted with new exhibits and ready to roll around the state for its second season.

Casey Westlake is communications coordinator for the UI Mobile Museum, a 38-foot long RV that was custom built by Winnebago Industries in Forest City. “Our goal is to bring UI research and one-of-a-kind artifacts to people all across the state of Iowa,” Westlake says.

The traveling museum was launched in April 2014 and during its first year, the RV stopped in 48 Iowa communities. “We’ve been to the State Fair, we did all of the overnight stops on RAGBRAI, and we’ve been to schools as far away as Glenwood and Sioux City,” Westlake says. “It’s a great way to get out into western Iowa and see people who aren’t close enough to just do a day trip to campus to come visit us.”

The Mobile Museum will follow RAGBRAI again this summer and be at the Iowa State Fair. The exhibits in the RV, which are different from last year, focus on water, World War II and space.

Gregory Howes, associate professor in the UI Department of Physics and Astronomy, says hundreds of school kids will be learning about the University of Iowa’s impact on space exploration dating back to the 1950s. “We hope that we can get out there and excite a lot of the next generation of scientists and engineers to get involved and keep the United States at the forefront of technology in space and discovery in science,” Howes says.

The University of Iowa Mobile Museum’s new look was unveiled last week during a visit to Lucas Elementary School in Iowa City. The RV will be parked outside the Adler Journalism Building on the UI campus today and open to the public from 12:30 to 3 p.m.

 

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