Iowa Historical Exhibit Bus Visits Le Mars

(Le Mars) — Parked outside the Plymouth County Historical Museum on Sunday afternoon was a bus from the Iowa Historical Museum featuring an interactive display about Iowa’s history. Entitled: Iowa History 101, the bus is scheduled to visit each of Iowa’s 99 counties during a three-year tour. The bus is on its second year crossing the Hawkeye State. John Carlson travels
with the interactive history exhibit. He says the artifacts inside the bus showcase three areas.

The exhibit features several items, including a girls basketball uniform, a miner’s hat with a lantern, an old burlap seed bag, and an old analog telephone. Carlson says many Iowans don’t have the opportunity to travel to Des Moines to see the Iowa Historical Museum, and that is the reason the bus with historical exhibits was created.

Carlson says the bus has traveled to 60 counties so far, and it is on track to complete the 99-county tour by the end of next summer. He says each of the two years the traveling historical exhibit has attracted around 25,000 visitors. Carlson says the exhibits will remain as it is today through out the 99-county tour. He says many times people will ask why the traveling
Iowa history exhibit doesn’t feature a particular artifact?

If you missed seeing the historical exhibit, Carlson says you may have to wait until the bus completes its 99-county tour before it makes another appearance in Plymouth County.