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Steamboat Bertrand Museum at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge

A visitor center exhibit of artifacts recovered from the sunken steamboat Bertrand, set within a Missouri River wildlife refuge.

1434 316th Lane, Missouri Valley, IA 51555 · Missouri Valley, IA

About Steamboat Bertrand Museum at DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge

The DeSoto Visitor Center and Bertrand Museum sits inside DeSoto National Wildlife Refuge, a Missouri River site spanning Iowa and Nebraska. The Bertrand sank in a river bend that is now DeSoto Lake, and its cargo and period items, nearly 250,000 artifacts in all, are displayed in the visitor center. The refuge also offers bottomland forest, prairie, and wetland habitat that draws migrating birds each spring and fall.

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#Missouri River
#shipwreck artifacts
#wildlife refuge
#birding

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