National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium and National Rivers Hall of Fame

The Dubuque County Historical Society is comprised of the National Mississippi River Museum & Aquarium, which includes the William M. Black dredge steamboat (a National Landmark), National Rivers Hall of Fame, RiverWorks Discovery, and other historic buildings and vessels on its 14-acre campus; and the Mathias Ham Historic Site, which includes Mathias Ham's Italianate villa, Iowa's oldest building, and other historic and recreated structures on the two-acre site. Museum operations and collections - The Museum is open 363 days of the year and served 182,000 onsite guests in 2022. The operations included inspiring stewardship by creating educational experiences where history and rivers come alive! Continued on Schedule O.The collection consists of 1,663 animals in our living collection and 23,182 artifacts/objects in our historical collection. We also have 4,400 linear feet of archival material and 8,500 books in our research library. Many of the collections are on display in the 3 buildings on both sites, including the library which serves as a research site.Museum education - The Museum provided special programming for 9,819 student groups, 9,441 adult groups and 12,546 people off-site in 2022.