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Jan 16 2009

African American Museum of Iowa Grand Re-Opening

Posted byNancy E. KraftPosted inAfrican American Museum of Iowa, Community, outreach, education, and events, Flood Recovery

Friday, January 16, 2009

Today was the grand re-opening of the African American Museum of Iowa. A feat to be commended and celebrated. Since the June flooding, they have mucked out their building and restored it sufficiently to have staff back in the building, the beginnings of a museum store, and an exhibit installed. While doing all of the this, they also continued all their statewide programming and facilitated flood recovery work of the damaged collections. There’s much to be done but they have a great start.

Here are some photos of the grand re-opening along side the same area the day we entered the building to inspect for flood damage. The re-opening photos were provided by the AAMI.