Danish Immigrant Museum Receives $5,000 Grant from Prairie Meadows

The Danish Immigrant Museum in Elk Horn, Iowa received a Prairie Meadows Community Betterment Grant in the amount of $5,000 at an awards luncheon on March 4, 2013.

The grant will help provide for the contract position of educator for The Danish Immigrant Museum. This individual will create grade-specific lesson plans, plus an activity plan for field trips that can be implemented by existing staff at the Museum and the Danish Windmill, in collaboration with the Exira-Elk Horn-Kimballton Schools. The topics will include: “Wind Power Past and Present” (Grades 6-12); “From Prairie to Farm to Table” (K-6); and “Immigration and Iowa Pioneer Life” (Grades 3-6). The project is to be completed between June 2013 and March 2014.

The Danish Immigrant Museum is located at 2212 Washington Street, Elk Horn, Iowa. For more information, please call 712-764-7001 or visit the museum’s website at www.danishmuseum.org

In the picture, you will find: Standing, L-R, representing Prairie Meadows, Paul Rogness, Board of Directors, Linda Grandquist, Board of Directors and Grant Advisory Committee, Dolph Pulliam, Grant Advisory Committee; seated is Terri Johnson, The Danish Immigrant Museum.