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June 2021
Czech Rye Bread
In this class we are going to prepare the delicious Czech version of rye bread. It is full of flavor that is even more delicious thanks to the addition of caraway seeds. This bread is so good that is would be no surprise if it became your favorite. Note: Suitable for vegetarians.Our popular virtual cooking classes continue! Cook and eat an authentic Czech and Slovak dish from the comfort of your home. Join us on Zoom and learn from Czech-born…
Find out more »Mramorová Bábovka: Famous Czech Marble Bundt Cake
This class will be a lot of fun, cooking with a recipe you will use many times over. We are going to prepare a traditional Czech Marble Bundt cake. It is the perfect marriage of gentle vanilla favor combined with decadent chocolate flavor. Note: Suitable for vegetarians.Our popular virtual cooking classes continue! Cook and eat an authentic Czech and Slovak dish from the comfort of your home. Join us on Zoom and learn from Czech-born Chef Tom Slepicka in these…
Find out more »July 2021
Coffee and Kolach
Brew a pot of coffee, powder your kolaches, and join the NCSML each first Friday of the month for Coffee & Kolaches with President & CEO, Cecilia Rokusek. Each month we'll be discussing a different topic via Facebook Live. Join us as we meet NCSML Curator Stefanie Kohn. Learn more about Stefanie, our archives and collection, what a curator does, and some details of future NCSML exhibits.Cost: Free Facebook Live Program
Find out more »Free First Saturday for Students
We live in a vibrant state for food with over 88,000 farms that produce more eggs, corn, and soybeans than any other state. Along with a strengthened commitment to grow food for the local area, the National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library invites students of all ages to join us on the first Saturday in July for activities about farming, nutrition, and composting. Come check out our new gardening space, growing orchard, and early work establishing a system for…
Find out more »NCSML Closed
NCSML will be closed for Independence Day, July 4. Normal hours resume July 5 at 9:30 a.m.
Find out more »History on Tap: Reinventing the Iowa Field
Grab a pint of beer and join us for History on Tap: Reinventing the Iowa Field. Emmaly Renshaw, Farm Manager at Feed Iowa First, will lead this program on the fascinating story of Iowa farming and how that connects to alleviating food insecurity in Linn County today. Emmaly grew up in the rolling hills of rural northeast Iowa. She graduated from Iowa State University with a degree in Landscape Architecture with an emphasis in Midwest Ecology. Both of these experiences…
Find out more »Glass Suncatcher Kit
This package includes free admission to NCSML and everything you need to make one 3x3" glass rainbow suncatcher. Included in the kit is a piece of clear glass, cut up pieces of colorful glass, glue, and detailed instructions. After you have finished painting/glazing your project, drop it off at the Ceramic Center for them to fire in their kilns. Projects will be available for pickup one week later from the following Saturday it is dropped off. The Ceramic Center is…
Find out more »Member Master Class: From Bohemia to Asinara: Recovering Lost Lives in Czech Archives and Literatures
A Virtual Lecture Series with Professor David Chroust, PhD.Josef Jelínek (1882-1916) died of cholera or typhoid fever in the winter of 1916 with thousands of fellow soldiers from Habsburg Austria in Italian captivity off the coast of Sardinia, on the barren island of Asinara. Sixty years after Jelínek died, a surviving son-in-law knew two simple facts: the year of Jelínek’s birth (1882) and his home village (Phov). Phov became a key to recovering Jelínek’s life and also the lives of…
Find out more »Honoring the Olympics: Czechoslovak Athletic Excellence
As we look to the 2020 Olympics in 2021, join National Czech & Slovak Museum & Library and Sokol Cedar Rapids on Wednesday, July 21 at 6 p.m. for a special event to kick off the Olympics. The program will begin with a live broadcast from Slovakia featuring Mr. Martin Gilian, a member of a special Olympic Committee, that is introducing a new sport into the Olympics. Mr. Gilian, from Banska Bystrica, Slovakia, is the founder of Outbreak Europe, the…
Find out more »Lecture by Mary Swander, Author of “VANG: A Drama about Recent Immigrant Farmers”
Playwright Mary Swander is a fourth generation Iowan, Poet Laureate of Iowa, and a distinguished professor of English at Iowa State. She worked with Pulitzer Prize-winning photographer Dennis Chamberlin, and Kennedy Center American College Theatre Festival award-winner Matt Foss to create Vang, a two-person play about recent immigrant farmers. Swander and Chamberlin interviewed and photographed recent Iowa immigrant farmers from many countries. Then Swander wound their words together to form a verbatim play that captures the farmers’ journeys to the…
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