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The AAMI is not offering traveling trunks at this time. Learn more about the Museum’s other offerings including traveling exhibits.
The AAMI is not offering traveling trunks at this time. Learn more about the Museum’s other offerings including traveling exhibits.
Use our classroom resources to help bring relevance to history for your students. Choose from a range of traveling trunks on different topics to engage students and spark their interest.
Dig into history with a traveling trunk from the African American Museum of Iowa. You’ll receive a large tote full of artifacts, reading materials, activities and more. Each trunk includes a curriculum guide with lesson plan ideas for classroom and home school teachers.
Traveling trunks enhance your classroom or library with a professionally curated, themed collection of learning materials.
Begin by reviewing our list of trunks, then submit a reservation request at least one week in advance. Our educator will contact you to confirm availability and arrange a time for you to pickup the trunk at the museum. You may keep the trunk for one week.
All trunks are free.
Review our selection of traveling trunks:
See how enslaved people influenced the development of modern music, beginning with humble work songs and spirituals, and continuing through gospel, blues, jazz, rock ‘n’ roll, funk and hip-hop. This trunk contains:
Get to know George Washington Carver, a notable botanist, and inventor whose innovations continue to impact our daily lives. Carver was born during the Civil War period in a small Missouri town and attended college in Iowa. This trunk contains:
The Great Migration spurred the growth of the Harlem Renaissance. Get a glimpse
of Harlem from the 1920s to the mid-1930s with this trunk. Even in the midst of
racism and economic struggles, African Americans were hopeful. Creativity was
awakened and black writers, artists, musicians, photographers, poets, and scholars
were drawn to the neighborhood. This trunk includes:
Discover the roots and traditions of Kwanzaa, an annual late-December celebration of African heritage in African American culture. This trunk includes:
Explore how Iowans contributed to the Underground Railroad by providing shelter, transport, and material to support slaves on the trail to freedom. This trunk contains:
Discover the varied cultures and geographies of Western Africa. You’ll develop an appreciation of the people who loved their land and family, and enjoyed sharing food, music, art and stories with the community before they were captured and brought to the Americas. This trunk includes: