German American Heritage Center (Davenport)

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Heritage Center and Museum

The German American Heritage Center in Davenport is a German-American cultural center with an immigration museum for German immigration to the United States and was founded in 1994. It shows the history of German immigrants in the Midwest .

Davenport was a center of German immigration and numerous immigrants left their mark on the way to the Midwest, as the first railway bridge crossed the Mississippi there. Davenport is considered a very German city and in the surrounding states every second person was counted as a German immigrant or descendant of a German in the 1900 census. The Germania House , built in 1870, which now houses the cultural center and museum, was originally one of the first guest houses and thousands of German migrants stayed there. The building is a historical monument.

The museum has a large permanent exhibition with the interactive part German Immigrant Experience and in addition it offers two temporary exhibitions. The aim of the center is to preserve German culture and to pass on knowledge about it to future generations.

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Our Mission & History . Official homepage, accessed November 21, 2019.

Coordinates: 41 ° 31 ′ 17.1 ″  N , 90 ° 35 ′ 1.1 ″  W.