The Farmers’ Museum

Visit the Farmers’ Museum

As one of the oldest rural life museums in the country, The Farmers’ Museum provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience 19th-century rural and village life firsthand through demonstrations and interpretive exhibits. A favorite among all Cooperstown attractions, the museum includes a working farmstead, a recreated historic village, the Empire State Carousel, and a Colonial Revival stone barn listed on the National Register for Historic Places. Its collection of more than 23,000 items encompasses significant historic objects ranging from butter molds to carriages, hand planes to plows.