The main display at the museum is Railroad Town, a recreated railroad town with townspeople.
A typical house:
The local newspaper. The guy coming in really has set type using lead and told us all about it.
A planing shop that actually operates:
Video of the planing shop running (720x480 WMV format, 1.09MB)
Lots of other displays:
This is an operating table for a horse:
Lots of homes and businesses to tour and people to talk to about their life:
We then visited the other indoor museum, on the plains Indians, the cowboys and the stuff collected by a local collector. The woman who answers questions at this part of the museum is a wealth of knowledge and fun to talk to. We ended up chatting with her till closing.
We were really glad to have visited the Stuhr Museum again.
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