Cost: Free for students, regular admission for nonstudents. During World War I, the Czechoslovakians rode the Trans-Siberian Railways East across Russia. Between 1915 and17, 60,000 Czechs and Slovaks signed up to fight for the Russian Tsar against the Austro-Hungarian Empire who had held control of the Czech lands for more than a century. Students can...
Cost: Free for students, regular admission for nonstudents. During World War I, the Czechoslovakians rode the Trans-Siberian Railways East across Russia. Between 1915 and17, 60,000 Czechs and Slovaks signed up to fight for the Russian Tsar against the Austro-Hungarian Empire who had held control of the Czech lands for more than a century. Students can...
Saturday, June 2, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Cost: Free, registration required Our second Movin’ at the Museum this summer season will be African Dance with Suzanne Palmer from the Eastern Iowa Arts Academy. Feel the beat and get fit dancing the afternoon away! Session One: 1:00 p.m. Session Two: 2:00 p.m....
Saturday, June 2, 2018, 1:00 p.m.-1:30 p.m. and 2:00 p.m.-2:30 p.m. Cost: Free, registration required Our second Movin’ at the Museum this summer season will be African Dance with Suzanne Palmer from the Eastern Iowa Arts Academy. Feel the beat and get fit dancing the afternoon away! Session One: 1:00 p.m. Session Two: 2:00 p.m....
Join us for a fascinating exploration of the music in the opera Rusalka. Des Moines Metro Opera’s production highlights the 125th anniversary of Antonin Dvořák’s sojourn in Spillville, Iowa, where legend has it he was inspired to compose the opera upon observing a young woman swimming in the Turkey River. In Slavic mythology, a “rusalka”...
Join us for a fascinating exploration of the music in the opera Rusalka. Des Moines Metro Opera’s production highlights the 125th anniversary of Antonin Dvořák’s sojourn in Spillville, Iowa, where legend has it he was inspired to compose the opera upon observing a young woman swimming in the Turkey River. In Slavic mythology, a “rusalka”...
Tours begin at 6:00 p.m. and last 30 - 45 minutes • Open late on Wednesdays until 8:00 p.m. during June and July (except July 4) There are loads of technologies and other advancements that came out of World War I, but perhaps some of the ones we come in contact the most are those...
Tours begin at 6:00 p.m. and last 30 - 45 minutes • Open late on Wednesdays until 8:00 p.m. during June and July (except July 4) There are loads of technologies and other advancements that came out of World War I, but perhaps some of the ones we come in contact the most are those...
Cost: Free for Members, free with purchase of admission ticket for non-members. Registration Required. Please stop at the Information Desk in Rozek Grand Hall when you arrive. There are loads of movies and books about WWI, but not many focus on the story of the Czechoslovak Legion and the struggle to form the Czechoslovakian nation....