Welcome to the Pentacrest Museums
The University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums feature both permanent and changing exhibits, educational programming, historic research collections care, and special events at the Old Capitol Museum and the Museum of Natural History.
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MISSION
We serve to strengthen the vital role of both Museums in the educational, research, and engagement missions of the University, enhancing the campus-wide focus on cultural and environmental diversity.
What's new?
UIPM upcoming events:
The Nature of ALIVENESS: Vibrant Body Listening
Saturday, May 4, 2024 11:30am to 12:30pm
How can dance enhance and reveal new bodies of knowledge with(in) natural history museums through the creation of performance scores and listening practices that challenge and reorient our relationship to animate/inanimate and living/nonliving materials in the museum?
International choreographer and teaching artist Stephanie Miracle with collaborators investigate this question with an upcoming performance and lecture experience. A sharing of performance scores for vibrant body listening and...
Opening Reception | To My Friends at Horn: Keith Haring and Iowa City
Saturday, May 4, 2024 12:00pm to 3:00pm
Join us for the grand opening of the exhibition, To My Friends at Horn: Keith Haring and Iowa City.
Opening on Keith Haring’s birthday, this exhibition celebrates the artist’s legacy and honors the many individuals who shaped his visits to Iowa City during the 1980s. The 1989 mural Haring painted for Ernest Horn Elementary School, which is on loan to the Stanley Museum of Art during the school’s renovation, anchors the exhibition and is accompanied by other works of art, photographs, and...