Pieces by artists such as Grant Wood (born in Anamosa, IA, about one hour from Muscatine), Matisse, Degas and Renoir. Several number of pieces revolve around the Mississippi River and cities along its banks.
The small museum sits in a house where China's now-President Xi Jinping stayed during his visit to Iowa in 1985, when he was a county-level official leading an agricultural delegation around the state.