Take a look at the many items available for sale in the Hauberg Museum.
•  Books
•  Postcards
•  Coffee Cups
•  Posters
•  Art Prints
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Hauberg Museum
Hours:
March - October            
9 a.m. - 5 p.m.  (closed Noon - 1 p.m. for lunch)

November - February   
9 a.m. - 4 p.m. (closed Noon - 1 p.m. for lunch)

Closed Monday and Tuesday and some
major holidays. Call for holiday schedule.

Guided tours of the museum are given by appointment;
phone 309-788-9536. The museum, lodge and restrooms are handicapped accessible.

The Hauberg Indian Museum, located in the
lodge constructed by the Civilian Conservation Corps in 1934, interprets the story of the Sauk
and Meskwaki.

The collection of Dr. John Hauberg, a Rock Island philanthropist, forms the basis of the museum's collection, which features full-size replicas of Sauk winter and summer houses. Dioramas with life-size figures depict activities of the Sauk and Meskwaki people typical of the period 1750 to 1830. Many artifacts, including authentic trade goods, jewelry and domestic items are displayed.

Kids' 1934 adventure turned up a priceless
piece of the past
Imagine! It is the summer of 1934.  You and your siblings, cousins, parents, aunts and uncles live in three summer cottages located on Big Island. Every day you and the other kids spend the entire day outdoors, playing in the woods and swimming in the river.  The area is gripped by record heat. There is a drought. Every day the level of the Mississippi River drops a little more. 

One day you come home to hear your uncle complaining that when he was out on the river fishing, his boat kept hitting a log submerged just below the surface of the water. He asks you, your 10-year-old brother and two of your cousins to help him remove the log.  Out you go, dig the log out of the mud, bring it to the surface of the water ... only to  discover it is a dugout canoe - one the Indians probably made and used!  Fiction?  No, fact.  The dugout canoe housed in the Hauberg Museum was found in just this way.  The children involved in the retrieval of the canoe were Thomas and Jack Edwards and Bill and Janis Ehleb.  It was a rare find. Very few original dugouts still survive.