ORANGE CITY—Just as the name implies, the Dutch American Heritage Museum in Orange City is filled with artifacts related to the settlement of N’West Iowa by Dutch immigrants. There are
ORANGE CITYâThe old is being made new again as the Dutch-American Heritage Museum in Orange City prepares to reopen for the summer with a whole new section of exhibits.
The last 18 months have been a flurry of activity for museum board members who have been working hard to design and install the all-new exhibits that tell the story of the settling and growth of Orange City more in depth than before.
âItâs a whole new narrative of the early town,â said Sara Huyser, vice president of the museum board and a major contributor to the new exhibits. âIt covers the growth of farming in the community, we cover some of the sad things of tornadoes and polio epidemic and then all kinds of the fun things that people did for recreation.â