County Museum debuts new exhibits

DAVENPORT — The Lincoln County Museum reopened for the 2025 season on Thursday, May 1, with fresh exhibits, new projects, and a leadership transition.

A life-size Columbian mammoth mural painted by local artist Maudi Klins now greets visitors just inside the main entrance, near the museum’s popular mammoth bones exhibit. The towering artwork offers a striking visual of the extinct Ice Age giant.

The opening weekend featured the annual Heritage Perennial Plant Sale, which drew an early crowd of local gardeners. The sale, which included trees, shrubs and flowers collected from area homesteads, w...