The University of Iowa Museum of Natural History has received a $750,000 Save America’s Treasures grant from the National Park Service to support preservation of the historic Laysan Island Cyclorama, a rare 1914 exhibition that immerses visitors in the ecology of Laysan, an atoll in the Northwest Hawaiian Islands.

Ann Elizabeth Slattery Smothers, who dedicated decades of her life to the Old Capitol Museum, died on December 30, 2023. She was 77.

Museum of Natural History Director of Research Collections Cindy Opitz teaches students a nearly lost art in the museum lab: taxidermy.

The University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums acquires extensive natural history collections from former Iowa Wesleyan University.

UI Museum of Natural History welcomes team of experts to campus for museum conservation analysis.

University of Iowa M.F.A. printmaking graduate student and teaching assistant Mariceliz Pagán Gómez partners with the UI Museum of Natural History for artistic research with collections and audience engagement.

The successful return of the Art & Write Night program series at the UI Museum of Natural History has lead to extended events in the summer, with likelihood of adding more dates in the fall.

The Pentacrest Museums host students from courses all around campus in museum gallery spaces to assist with teaching goals and objectives. Recently 10 sections of Introduction to Earth and Environmental Sciences labs held class in Iowa Hall with the Museum of Natural History offering high-impact learning opportunity.

University alum Tim Weitzel explores the legend of the University Water Closet on behalf of the University of Iowa Pentacrest Museums.