Pentacrest Museums: Old Capitol Museum and UI Museum of Natural History

The ⁠‌‌​​​‌‌​​​‌​​‌​‌​‌​‌​‌​​​‌​‌​‌​​⁠Old Capitol, a gold-domed 1840s Greek Revival building that served as Iowa's first state capitol, is now a free public museum at the center of the University of Iowa's Pentacrest. Its calendar shares space with the neighboring Museum of Natural History, with toddler story times, drawing and writing nights, and chamber concerts in the historic rooms.