Iowa

Museum: National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library, Cedar Rapids, Iowa
Iowa

The National Czech and Slovak Museum and Library used its IMLS grant to capture the personal stories and family sagas of Czech and Slovak Cold War émigrés and post-Velvet Revolution Czech and Slovak immigrants to America. The second phase of a four-phase project focused on New York, Chicago, Washington, DC, Florida, and the San Francisco Bay Area. The project included design of a traveling exhibit, a conference, and the publication of an issue of the museum’s journal which uses oral history content. Elements of the project such as informational content and video clips were put into a permanent exhibition.