The University of Iowa’s Museum of Natural History will be a featured waypoint next month on a historic cross-country journey celebrating the American bison.
Jessica Smith, spokeswoman for the UI’s Pentacrest Museums, says it’ll be the only Iowa stop for a unique shipment celebrating our national mammal.
“The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History has commissioned three, larger-than-life bronze bison sculptures,” Smith says, “and they are going to be picked up on a truck with an open bed in Colorado and begin a great American bison road trip from Colorado all the way to the National Mall in D.C., where they will be installed permanently.”…