The Agriculture Museum

 This month we drove a number of hours to another new museum we've never been to, The Agriculture Museum.  There was a fair of sorts happening and we thought it would be interesting to visit, as it happened to be my husband's weekend off.  So, away we went.

The kids saw some adorable ponies and were able to pet them.

There were fun opportunities for picture taking, which I must do of course!

They had some interesting critters to pet in a children's area, including this tortoise, other turtles, some other reptiles, and snakes!  I wasn't touching the snake, but my son got to hold it. 

This heritage museum is similar to the one we visit often in that it is a whole village, but one thing they had that ours did not was a railway with rail cars, a station, and even a grain elevator!  That was interesting to see!

Another thing we really enjoyed was the ability to be able to pump the foot pedal of the printing press ourselves.  We all gave it a try.  My son took this picture of me working the machine.  It was interesting and actually a bit difficult to get the hang of to start.  Once you got it, though, it was easy.  Like the man said, it was like riding a bike!

I liked the post office area.  The boxes there reminded me a little of what it was like to get the mail from the post office as a kid.  We had to go into the building and find our box.  They weren't near our house at all.  These were much fancier looking!  But the style was similar to what I remember as a kid.

I took this picture of the under stairs area pantry.  I think this is something I should do in my basement!  The museum here had lots of two story buildings we were able to go upstairs in and view.  The kids thought that was great!

This one house, one of the first ones we saw, reminded me of my childhood.  I have no idea how old the house I grew up in was, but the doors, the hand rail, the wallpaper, all of it reminded me of what was in my house growing up before we modified things.  The door handles were the same, with the large keyhole underneath. 

The register is one thing I miss from my childhood.  Sounds strange, I know.  I remember putting our socks and boot inserts over it to dry them after coming in from the wet snow outside.  It was very much like this one, just with a different scrollwork.  There were similar beautiful floor vents as well that I remember having in our house before they were switched out.  The floor is similar, too.  The hardwood underneath the linoleum looked very similar.  It splintered into our socks like crazy.  Those slivers make that floor all the more memorable.

And this post at the foot of the stairs!  So similar to what we had!  It's crazy!

I did not expect to have nostalgia visiting a museum I had never seen before!  I had a lot of fun, and the kids really enjoyed it, too!