The Hastings Museum of Natural and Cultural History, 1330 N. Burlington Ave. in Hastings, was founded in the 1920s and moved into its 1939 Art Deco building, built with WPA help. It has natural history halls with more than 200 birds, the J. M. McDonald Planetarium, the Lied Super Screen theater, a large firearms collection and the permanent Kool-Aid exhibit; the museum calls itself the largest municipal museum between Chicago and Denver. The Adams County Historical Society archive is in the building. Phone (402) 461-2399.