Britt, Iowa - Hobo Museum

Address:: 51 Main Ave S, Britt, IA
Directions:: South of US Hwy 18.
Admission:: $2.
Hours:: M-F 9-5, Sa-Su 9-5. (Call to verify)
Phone:: 641-843-9104

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Britt, Iowa - Hobo Museum

The museum hasn't moved yet and is open 9-5. They are searching for funding to build their new museum across the street. Hobo Convention week shows 20,000 people show up for the festivities on the second weekend in August. [Frank Kelley, 07/10/2006]

[RA: July 2007: Kimberle Brown sez "New museum is still not open -- it is still located in the movie theatre." Dec 2006 - "Rich" alerts us that the "King of the Hobos," Maurice Graham, just died in late November at the age of 89.]

Britt, Iowa - Hobo Museum

A museum dedicated to the hobo life and the National Hobo Convention held each year in this town. [Curt Gast, 04/29/2001]

[RA: Unfortunately, we passed though during the hobo off-season. The current museum is in an old movie theater. They are scheduled to open a new museum in 2003. The Hobo convention is the second week in August. Hobo Jungle is a public park with an old railroad boxcar, where hobos and hobo wannabes can hang out. ]

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November 9, 2009