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Former name | 1867 - Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences
1900 - Davenport Academy of Sciences 1927 - Davenport Public Museum 1970 - Davenport Museum 1974 - Putnam Museum 1990 - Putnam Museum of History and Natural Science 2014 - Putnam Museum and Science Center |
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| Established | 1867[1] |
| Location | Davenport, Iowa, United States |
| Type | History and Science museum |
| Director | Cindy Diehl Yang, president/CEO |
| Public transit access |  Davenport CitiBus |
| Website | www |
The Putnam Museum and Science Center, originally Davenport Academy of Natural Sciences, is a museum of history and natural science with an interactive science center in Davenport, Iowa, United States. The museum was founded in 1867, and was one of the first museums west of the Mississippi River. It houses around 250,000 historical artifacts and specimens in its collections. It is located at 1717 West 12th Street, at the corner of Division and West 12th Street on "museum hill," near Fejervary Park. It is an affiliate of the Smithsonian Institution.[2]
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