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Who or What are we?????

     The Yesteryear Museum is an all-volunteer self-funded non-profit institution over 25 years old.Yesteryear's collections include a rare OMC tractor built in Salina (less than 50 built) and three Jayhawk Hay Stackers from Salina's Wyatt, Mfg.

     The museum is working towards being a Living Farm and a Living Rural Community.  Two Buildings house a wide ranging collection of artifacts—some restored and some in their ‘natural state’.  There are unique displays of household items, farm equipment, kitchen utensils, an old time post office in a country store, operating gas and hot air engines, many different tractors, items from an old flour mill laboratory, two monster size stationary steam engines with direct current generators, old fashioned printing equipment including an operating Linotype, horse drawn equipment, and more.

     You won’t want to miss the restored one-room schoolhouse, one of the oldest sawmills still operating, the small-town country church (under restoration), one of the earliest steam traction engines (est. 1886) still operating, a wooden two-hole corn sheller and a wooden corn husker/shredder, both operating, and the 1930’s gas station (under restoration).

     The museum is a work-in-progress.  It is notable because no items are in storage—everything is displayed.  During our or our , we have reenactments of rural school life on the prairie, wheat harvesting including binding and threshing, early day corn harvesting, sawmill operation, and when completed, reenactments demonstrating life within the country church.  As time goes by, the museum will be adding more demonstrations and reenactments that involve the visitor—both as entertainment but also as an educational forum for the rural culture of days past.  Our goal is to teach history and for you to enjoy it as we do.