The Putnam: Re-Imagined Capital Campaign that began nearly 10 years ago as a masterplan is now reaching its conclusion, and a new permanent exhibit reveals more of the Davenport museum’s quarter-million-piece collection. The major renovation project started with breaking through walls to allow for more accessible routes into the museum, at 1717 W. 12th St., […]

It’s taken 66 million years (or really, since 1867), but the Putnam Museum and Science Center in Davenport expects to be the first Iowa museum to display a complete dinosaur skeleton in 2027. During the Putnam’s recent annual Dino Days event, president/CEO Cindy Diehl Yang announced the ambitious plan to bring an adult Triceratops skeleton […]