National Pearl Button Museum


Overview

National Pearl Button MuseumThe Gold Rush of the Midwest! In the early 1900s, Muscatine, Iowa was known as “the Pearl Button Capital of the World.” It manufactured more than 1.5 billion mother-of-pearl buttons each year! The National Pearl Button Museum tells the story of the immigrant-entrepreneurs, the laborers, the buttons, and the mussels that put our town on the map.

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