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A Conestoga wagon that doubles as a kaleidoscope, Holocaust survivor violins that still fill a concert hall, and a triceratops headed for Iowa. That’s not a movie plot, it’s what’s happening across the Quad Cities museum world right now.
We’re joined by Kelly Lau, Vice President of Museum Experiences at the Putnam Museum and Science Center in Davenport, Iowa. Kelly walks us through what her job really touches, from education and field trips to curatorial work and exhibit planning. We talk about the Kaleidoscope special exhibit with local artist Tom Chateau and why this kind of hands-on art, optics, and design is one of the best examples of STEAM learning you can bring a family to.
From there, we zoom out to the bigger visitor experience: summer camps for every age, the new Family Discovery Center built for pre-K kids and sensory-friendly exploration, and what it looks like when a museum takes accessibility seriously. Kelly shares how Spanish language interpretation and other changes are helping more visitors feel welcome. Then we spend time with one of the most moving cultural projects in the state, Violins of Hope, and why hearing these instruments played makes history feel immediate.
We close with the kind of museum stories you never forget, including CT scans of Egyptian mummies and the behind-the-scenes journey toward unveiling a triceratops for the Putnam’s 160th birthday in 2027. Subscribe, share the episode with a friend who loves the Quad Cities, and leave a review, then tell us: what exhibit would you drive across Iowa to see?
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Welcome To QC That’s Where
SPEAKER_00Where do you find a family of communities connected by the Mississippi River and grounded by real people with real stories? Where explorers, entrepreneurs, investors, and dreamers discover a place that's world-class, castle-free, and refreshingly genuine. QC That's where. Coming to you from the Union Station Podcast Studio, this is QC That's Where.
SPEAKER_01Welcome to QC That's Where. I'm your host Katrina, and today I've got Kelly Lau from the Putnam, the Vice President of Museum Experiences. Yes. I get that right? Yes, exactly. You and I have known each other for a while. We have been in similar circles in the Quad Cities for a little bit, but let's start with you and just like your trajectory into museum life and your involvement in QC.
SPEAKER_02Oh, yeah, definitely. Well, I've grown up in the Quad Cities and uh lived in Mylan and in the greater Quad City area out in Oregon and uh have been in Rock Island for the last you know 20 some years. So I've been, you know, just really always interested in arts and creativity um in the different offerings that we've had in our community. I even started out in high school working Quad City Metro Arts was my first job. Oh fun. Doing uh yeah, doing artwork, uh mosaics and things that you can still see. They're still up in the Quad Cities.
SPEAKER_01Okay.
SPEAKER_02From many, many years ago.
SPEAKER_01Oh, any specific locations?
SPEAKER_02River House, there's one. Okay. And it's I actually did it a Blackhawk.
SPEAKER_01Is that in that courtyard kind of area?
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's kind of behind um, there's like a courtyard that kind of runs behind the restaurants and everything. Oh, yeah. Yeah, if you go, like you're going in the back entrance to River House, you can see my work from when I was maybe 17 or something.
SPEAKER_01That's cool. I'll pay attach to that next time I go. I go on there all the time. I totally know what you're talking about. That's funny.
SPEAKER_02Yeah. So I was able to um take that and kind of craft it into my career. I have a background in anthropology with um kind of focus in um cultural uh connections, um, textiles, things like that. And I was able to get my master's right here in the Quad Cities through the Western Illinois Museum Studies Program. That's awesome. So I was in that first cohort of students and was fortunate enough to begin my career at the German American Heritage Center. That's where I spent 11 years before going to the Putnam.
SPEAKER_01So it's so cool. One thing I noticed about like the Quad Cities, um, we've got I think around 20 museums. You look at like the whole region. Oh, yeah. 20 museums, something for everyone. And we celebrate it every October with Museum Month. Um, but then when we get down to like the granular level, folks like yourself, I mean, it's not like you just plopped in one day and were like, I like Putnam. Here we are, Putnam. You have a background. There's the you know, the the cohort, the the studies that you've developed through the years. I mean, it's a real, it's a real gift that we have uh, you know, a fleet of people like yourself that are running and curating the things going on in our museums.
SPEAKER_02Oh yes, it's such a nice thing. We have interns that, you know, become museum professionals from the Western program. I actually was an intern at the Putnam for like five years when I was going through my uh undergrad and graduate school. And so it's really neat to come back to that institution uh or on the leadership team now. So it's been a really fun journey, and I still work with so many of the museums and historical societies and organizations uh around the community, as well as you know, continuing to participate in arts as my you know pastime, my hobby, and my interest with my family. So it's been a really uh rich experience here.
Life At The Putnam Today
SPEAKER_01And it's come full circle, yeah. Because you're working in it too. Exactly. Um what what's happening at the Putnam right now? How how is your day-to-day at the Putnam and what's your kind of like involvement there?
SPEAKER_02Sure. So I oversee both the education departments and the uh curatorial exhibits collection department. So I get to do all the fun things that I get to say. So all the cool things at the museum I'm really lucky to be involved in. So we are right in the midst of field trip season on the ed side of things. We will have so many hundreds of students a day basically coming into the Putnam to experience programs, maybe a movie on the giant screen theater, um, and just our many exhibits and offerings. We do have a special exhibit right now that just opened a couple weeks ago called Kaleidoscope. Um and we are working with Tom Chateau, who is a local artist here in Davenport, and he creates large-scale kaleidoscopes in ways that you never thought you'd ever see a kaleidoscope before. Um, examples include there's a Conestoga wagon that he's made into a kaleidoscope.
SPEAKER_01Oh my gosh.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, it's larger than life. Larger than life, and that some of them are small. One is like a um a jeweled trunk that you can look inside and see mirrored environments. Um, one is a geodesic dome that you kind of see a stairwell into infinity. Um there's just really neat things, and he has a workshop in the gallery where he welcomes visitors to come look at him building more kaleidoscopes to put in the exhibit. So that'll be up through Labor Day. We're really excited to have him uh working with us and showcasing over 30 kaleidoscopes in the gallery.
SPEAKER_01That's amazing. And like you mentioned on the education side, kids coming in for field trips, they'll get to experience this.
SPEAKER_02Yeah.
SPEAKER_01Um and they meet an artist. And they meet an artist and see it in action, yeah, real life. Exactly.
SPEAKER_02It's been very fun. Um, we're also planning for summer, so we will be um having just a slate of many offerings for summer camps. Yeah. Um, that's gonna be, you know, early learners and preschool and kindergarten, all the way up through fifth and sixth graders. Um we'll have offerings for all different ages, and it's gonna run all summer long through the second week of August. So June through August. Uh, something for everyone, all different themes of camp. And it's just a really fun way to spend a week of summer.
SPEAKER_01That's one cool thing I respect so much about like what the Putnam does and other museums who have ways of reaching into the youth, and like we're bringing up the next generation of quad citizens with this like arts and culture awareness, which I think is so important. Um, I think that's that's one foothold I really stand on when we say the Quad Cities is the creative capital of the Midwest. You know, it's it's that kind of outreach. It's also the artists like you were talking about that are willing to be like, hey, I will pull up residency here for two months and you can come and watch me work.
SPEAKER_02Oh, it's wonderful. I not only get to interact with these uh creative minds, you know, Tom's bridging that um kind of area of science in art with scopes, uh, optics, mirrors, uh, different types of environments. And it shows showcases that STEAE kind of mentality of science and arts coming together for something really unique.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02Uh we work a lot with uh different partners throughout the community that also have that same mindset, whether it's Sam McCollum at Steam on Wheels, his uh working with students throughout our community is such an inspiration and someone that we constantly partner with to see, you know, what's best practices, what are fun ways that we can engage our students through these creative minds and creative manner. We also um, you know, personally I love going to see all the different outlets we have. I love going to the figgy, seeing the art shows that we have uh on display, like clearly indigenous that's open at the Figgy right now. It's just a gorgeous opportunity to see artwork.
SPEAKER_01Train train comes through here. It's so funny because I know listening to this podcast, everyone's gonna hear it. Yeah. Um, so if you're not familiar, Union Station is a 100-year-old training. We were joking, like, oh, we need to have like a drinking game or something with the train because I'm like drink to the train, sponsored by train. Train brought to you by the Closet Museum scene today.
SPEAKER_02We love museums and trains are like so simpatico. They have hand in hand, I think that there might be possibly a hundred train museums across the state of Iowa. Yeah, it's a big deal.
Springtime Family Fun Around QC
SPEAKER_01It totally is. It's also kind of like I got the window open here today and we can see it rolling by, which is really nice. It is a there's signs of spring outside, which I kind of wanted to I wanted to get your take on that because it was there are so many things to do in this destination. I will argue this is an all-seasons destination. However, everybody really loves when the springtime comes because there's so much more you can do just get outdoors and with your family and just the experiences um can be so rich. What are some things that you like to do outdoors or with the family when the weather clears up?
SPEAKER_02Oh, exactly. Oh my goodness. So uh we are really looking forward to uh visits to Nayhot Marsh.
SPEAKER_01Oh yeah.
SPEAKER_02So I have um six-year-old about to be seven years old. Uh he loves reptiles, so we go down to Nayhot, we walk around the marsh, uh, take a look outside, but then we also go inside and see all the reptiles and the turtles, all the fun animals inside. Their team is really uh great to work with and to interact with at Nayhot. Additionally, with my um older kids, we like to go on bike rides, be just hiking at Black Hawk State Park. I went last weekend, it was wonderful. Yes. And we also go to the botanical gardens a lot during this time. So um, whether it's just walking around inside or getting outside into the uh river area and just seeing what new offerings they have in their storytime gardens. So that's one way we really enjoy uh that springtime kind of everything opening up again, yes, getting outside.
SPEAKER_01Yes, you know, I my boys I haven't taken them to Nayhant yet, but I I would really love to for them to experience that. So much I haven't done with them yet, they're three and five. Um, so just the world's our oyster right now. Oh yes. Like, I don't think I've even taken them on like a walk over the I-74 bridge Oculus yet, and that's totally on my list because once we get up there, I know they're gonna be like so pumped to see so much, and then go across the bridge and then go on the channel cat and then go under the bridge. Yeah, that'll be fun to do a full circle experience exactly really good idea. Um, and then what's the other thing I was gonna you mentioned Blackhawk State Park. Um, oh yeah, so the botanical center, um, Cross City Botanical Center. I don't know if they've done this year's past, but this past winter, they had a big sand pit.
SPEAKER_02Oh yes, in the middle, construction vehicles, uh sand pit. We spent many winters in the sand inside the the um botanical area. Yeah.
SPEAKER_01It's so clever because I'm like, oh, you can come in here and like get a sense of like warm and it feels like you're in a totally different space. Exactly.
New Spaces For Young Kids
SPEAKER_02While the kids buy. It's been so nice to have different offerings for young kids, and I want to mention we did just open our family discovery center at the Putnam, and that is an area that we've designed for pre-K and K and even little little ones to enjoy the Putnam. So it's kind of their own space where maybe the big kids are running around the science center and uh doing the scarf machine and pulleys and stuff, and by going into the family discovery center, there we have little furniture, we have soft uh climbing areas, block, open-ended play, and we actually have a preschool educator that's developing programs within that space and uh offering things like our story time or other things really geared towards those younger ages. So at the Putnam, you know, you might think of you know the adult offerings and then the grade school kind of offerings, but we're really expanding that down into the uh early childhood levels.
SPEAKER_01That's awesome. Was that was that from like a you know a public wish list kind of thing? Is that something that you all have been kind of working on just to expand outreach?
SPEAKER_02We did um, you know, noticing our visitors come through, we have families with kids of all ages. Yeah. And you know, you might have like a stroller and a toddler and a five-year-old, a ten-year-old, you know. So um finding something for those younger ages and even a space that's just a little more quieter or sensory friendly for kids that might just need a little uh different environment than where the school groups are running jagged. Uh so that's something we wanted to do, and as part of our actual uh capital campaign, Putnam Reimagined, where we really did touch about nine different galleries in the space, uh outdoor and indoor. Yeah. Yeah, and reimagining them and updating them, completely re-hauling them. And so it's really if you haven't been to the Putnam in three years, you'll have a completely different experience.
Accessibility And Putnam Reimagined
SPEAKER_01So much has changed. Pardon me. One negative of springtime, sometimes we'll get you. Um also want to mention that the Putnam was recently um added to our Real the World Verified Attractions. You know, you guys had um our mapper Tina come in and she did the whole gamut um at Putnam, and so that is yet to be unveiled. We've got um you guys and about a half dozen other new attractions, not new, but adding to the to the list. So so excited that you guys were on the you know accessibility like wagon with us, and that it's something it's cool because I keep seeing the Quad Cities together moving in that direction of how can we make one little more thing accessible at a time? And cool to Putnam's all on board with that in this.
SPEAKER_02Yes, our um our whole staff um is dedicated to accessibility. We have a committee made up of a variety of different team members, whether they be from guest services on the front lines seeking tickets from our curatorial departments, from our education departments, or uh different different people coming together and really prioritizing accessibility. So we've uh had a number of initiatives through that committee. Um, we've had text to talk um buttons put into our gallery uh for labels becoming more accessible. We've uh worked with different height levels for things, and um one other thing we have done is uh added uh Spanish language interpretations to all the galleries that we've redone.
SPEAKER_03Yeah.
SPEAKER_02And we we think of making it the button of a place where everyone can see themselves and everyone can enjoy themselves and know that they're welcome here.
Violins Of Hope And Holocaust Stories
SPEAKER_01That's it's so aligned with like you know how we think, I think, as a community, but also like in Visit Quad Cities, having the Spanish language add-on that you add that you mentioned, so important because if our mission is to become a globally known must-experience destination, like by golly, I want to make sure we've got as many languages um available as possible. And we want those international travelers to come and and confidently be able to go, yeah, I can I can go to the Putnam and and get the you know the same experience um you know as a quad citizen, what or somebody who's from around here. So awesome, awesome additions. I love that. Talk to me about Violence of Hope. What is it and how is your involvement?
SPEAKER_02Yes, so uh Violins of Hope is an incredible statewide initiative that's been really spearheaded by Alan Ross and the Jewish Federation of the Quad Cities. He has um worked some over over years to kind of think about this topic and uh learn about this program of Violins of Hope and bring it to the Quad Cities, but also bring it to the entire state. So Violins of Hope is about it's almost 70 violins that have survived the Holocaust. Um and they all have their own unique story of who owned them, who played them, you know, what their experience was uh during the Holocaust, and each of these unique pieces are you know incredible artifacts that share our history. But also what is so unique about it is that these instruments are played. So we uh have a partnership with the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, with many museums around our area, and even across the state, with the Des Moines Symphony, the Sioux City Symphony, where students, community members, uh museum goers, symphony goers can all you know hear the sounds of these instruments and with by talented musicians being able to pick up this historic piece and hear the sounds that are uh coming from that. So it's it's really powerful. We worked with LA Qued Cities, they've done some amazing performances uh alongside of the programs that are being developed musically, and it's just been a powerful partnership. We have there's islands at German American Heritage Center that can be viewed at the Putnam, at the Figgy, um, even down at Danville Station in Danville, where Anne Frank had a pen pal, uniquely enough. So um Alan is is such a great person to partner with, and the Jewish Federation is a great organization to partner with because they really bring people together from across the community. Uh several years ago, um, we did a project on Anne Frank and had many, many different performances, programs, school visits, all related to that topic, and just about every cultural institution you know played a role in that partnership.
SPEAKER_01So what can people expect when they go to either German American Heritage Center or to Putnam Museum and Science Center? What are they physically laying eyes on?
SPEAKER_02Sure. So uh at the Putnam we have about um ten violins on display. Okay, and we showcase not only the the violins from the front, the back might have an inlay of a star of David or some special, you know, unique quality to it. But also we have the stories of the people about you know the most important thing is like who who had this violin? What was their story? What was their experience? Um additionally, we were able to um on loan have uh Sarah David sewn onto a 1930s era dress and have it like a tableau kind of developed of seeing how you would hold the violin, um seeing the you know, kind of imagining someone in that space and playing that violin while reading about their story. We there's a bunch bunch of programs that you can find on the Violins of Hope website. Yeah. And um, you know, whether it be a concert performance, uh a school visit, or even uh ballet performances, there are a variety of different offerings throughout April 30th about.
SPEAKER_01Okay, perfect. So there's plenty of time for folks to come and see them and try to experience and and soak in those stories. Are there any violins in your care currently that you're like, this is a must-see story, a must-see piece that really just kind of landed with you?
SPEAKER_02Oh, we have a really incredible one that is actually you see you look at the back of the violin and the carving, there's like this village scene almost. And it's it's a very historic piece, very old piece, and just being able to see a violin. I've never seen a violin that had that much intricacy of carved scenes in the back of it. Yeah. You know, so I would I would encourage visitors to kind of take a close look at that. Maybe it's a mother of pearl inlay. You know, they're very beautiful on their own. But then once you read the stories of the people who own them, I mean I couldn't even pick this one. Every single one, you know, is incredibly moving and you know, touches your soul. So it's it's a powerful uh display and it's a powerful program of events throughout the community. So I really encourage people to go see it before we have to uh let it move on to another community. Yeah. But we were really glad to have brought it to this area and be part of the statewide initiative.
SPEAKER_01Now, if you don't know the answer to this, that's totally cool. Um curious, I mean, it's it seems like such a niche instrument, it could have been anything. Why why were so many violins saved and and passed through the decades?
SPEAKER_02Sure. So the collector, his father and grandfather, his grandfather survived the Holocaust, and his grandfather's family did not. And he was a violin maker. Oh and he was actually um you know, after the war, a lot of people couldn't bring themselves. To play this instrument that was possibly made in Germany, say. And they're like, please take this, or I'm gonna have to destroy this instrument, but I cannot play it myself anymore. And so the collection grew and he wanted to preserve the history and preserve the stories and you know preserve the instruments themselves. So it's now on to the third generation of collectors, and uh the collector's generous enough to come to our community and you know really share the stories of the instruments. Yeah. Um and so you can find out more about that that rich history on their website as well. Yeah. Um, what is the website that someone's gonna do? I think Violence of Hope, you'll come up with it. There's actually books about it as well. Okay. So our curatorial team has done a lot of research with the with the texts that are available, but very interesting as well.
Museum Moments From Mummies To Dinos
SPEAKER_01Cool. Thank you for sharing that. Yeah, I appreciate that. I'm excited to see it. I haven't gotten out myself to see any of it yet, so kind of get down before time runs out. Um, so kind of like looping back to your career, you know, um, where you've been in the quad cities, things you've experienced. Do you have a highlight moment in and around the museum space that's like, you know, a day or like a project or something that you remember?
SPEAKER_02I have so I have two, because I had I had one for a really long time, but then I had a new experience. I would love to. I would love to hear too. Um so back when I was an intern, I was at the Putna Museum, and I was part of the project to redo the ancient Egyptian exhibit.
SPEAKER_03Okay.
SPEAKER_02And at that point, in the let's say early 2000s. I I'm not sure exactly what year, um, early mid-2000s, uh, the exhibit had been up since the 60s, since the building was put in place. And um, so it really hadn't been updated in quite some time. So, along with uh Christina Castell, I was able to support her work in um rethinking the gallery, doing new research, and as part of that, we actually were able to uh take the mummies to get CT scanned. So um that was uh something that I got to be part of, and I just I don't know that many people can have take a mummy to get a CT scan uh in their lives, but it was incredible. All the doctors who are part of it were just blown away, and yeah, you know, it's it was such an exciting day. You know, I wore my best outfit. I just uh tagged along as the intern. And I just I was so grateful to Christina for being able to go on that experience um and doing the research to help create the interactive in the space where you learn more about uh mummification process, um, doing research on the collectors and the Quad City um people who actually brought these um uh ancient Egyptian uh mummies, their coffins, the different uh you know, canopic jars and different shabtes and different things of the uh in the exhibit to our community so that our community can learn about somewhere that a lot of people at that time period would never be able to travel to. Sure. So uh it's been that was a really cool experience. Then recently I was uh working on an exhibit called Junk Raft, and I worked with uh an explorer scientist uh Marcus Erickson and Dr. Erickson when we were wrapping up the exhibit on kind of uh water pollution and plastics and the oceans and his journey um bringing attention to that by building a giant garbage raft and sailing it from California to Hawaii. Uh when we were wrapping up that project, I was with Christine Chandler, our curator of natural sciences, and uh Dr. Erickson turns to us and said, Do you want a triceratops? So uh he's also a paleontology. Yeah, so um it was a unique opportunity that we wanted to know more about. So I actually was able to go um with my family to kind of check out what's the deal with this triceratops, you know. And uh we actually went out to Wyoming, went to the site, uh, you know, found where they're they were digging up a triceratops. Oh my goodness. And kind of claimed them for our own. Yeah. Uh we were um able to kind of get the opportunity flushed out a little more, and we actually sent our team to Wyoming to dig up the Triceratops along with community members like the conductor of the Quad City Symphony Orchestra, Mark Russell Smith, came along. Uh, friends from Common Cord and other uh Quad City Cultural Trust members were uh fantastic partners to come with us and help us get the dyno.
SPEAKER_01Is the dyno now in and display?
SPEAKER_02No, so we are still working towards that. Uh sponsor by the one right past there. Oh, that's a short one. But they want you to know you're that they're here.
SPEAKER_01Yeah. It's a two-car train. They're like, we're a two-car train. Yep.
SPEAKER_02That's not too bad. So uh the so we are bringing the triceratops to the Putnam and seeking to unveil it, um, have an exhibit all around it um for our 160th birthday. Very cool. That's gonna be in 2027, and uh our our birthday is actually December 14th. So when uh the Putnam Museum turns 160, yeah, we'll have a big party, we'll unveil and unleash the triceratops. Oh my gosh! And it'll just be such a fun time. Uh we are, you know, working hard to develop interactives and content all around it. Yes. So it it's just uh it's a really cool thing to be part of a you know, my first story was with the mummies, and you know, what a you know thing people go to the Putnam they remember seeing since they were ch children visiting, you know, many years ago, and they have that iconic memory. And for future generations from 2027 on, yes, they're gonna remember going to the Putnam and seeing the triceratops. Yes. So it just feels like the you're part of the next generation of producing these memories for families that are gonna stick with them throughout their lives.
SPEAKER_01Congratulations on being part of the foundation of that. That's huge.
SPEAKER_02It's it's exciting and you know, once in a lifetime type thing. Oh, totally. I I was glad to have my family be with me as part of it, but uh I, you know, we we want to keep our partnership up with Dr. Erickson and uh going out there, so we hope that we can continue this journey and um we bring our partners from Augustina Geology Department to help us do the that scientific work alongside of our staff paleontologists, but it is um you know just great that other people get to experience that as well.
SPEAKER_01Yeah, it's I mean honestly, so the the new edition of it coming in 2027, like you said, it's like the next generation of what people are gonna remember coming and visiting, and oh yeah, you know, they might they might remember it in 30 years down the road and go, oh yeah, I remember when I visited the quad cities and saw the triceratop the triceratops. Um, and it's that's what like all of this is about, is just like creating those concrete memories and moments and experiences, and it's so cool when you can be part of something like that from its foundation.
SPEAKER_02Yes.
SPEAKER_01And the fact that you guys were able to go out and see the dig, you know, you can loop in our students from local colleges. I mean, the Quad Cities has so many opportunities because people are here that care and that want to see things done right and you know are just looking to the future. I it's so exciting. That's so cool.
SPEAKER_02Yeah, we're we're um we cannot wait. And we have a little bit of dino fever at the museum. It's just about everywhere besides you know having the the triceratops, but we are we're all in on dinos and everything. But it's just it's another part of that, you know, whole education. Like little kids have such an interest in that. Yeah, and when they you take kind of advantage of that interest, like this is it, and this this is a dinosaur, you can see it. There's all these different things that you can learn about surrounding that, it becomes a gateway science to continued learning. And you know, it's it's just a way to engage kids in steam and STEM from just their earliest ages, and know that like your curiosity and interest is important and it should be continued to grow.
QC That’s Where And Closing
SPEAKER_01Well said. I on that note, I'm going to throw it to you and have you it's a tradition on this podcast, have you fill in the blank.
SPEAKER_02QC, that's where you can see a triceratops in Iowa.
SPEAKER_01Yes! Kelly, thank you so much. I really appreciate your time. And for all of you watching and listening, thank you for your time. Check out visitquadcities.com and always go to our events calendar for all the latest and greatest events and happenings and things in the Quad Cities.
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