History
The Delaware Agricultural Museum is a non-profit, privately run museum in the heart of Dover, Delaware. It houses exhibit buildings with over 12,000 artifacts including a 1700's log cabin, mock milkable cow, 1930's kitchen, a 1941 Steerman Airplane Crop Sprayer, soil exhibit plus three galleries with changing exhibits. Visitors are encouraged to step into the past by touring Loockerman Landing, a recreated 19th century village with a farmstead, school house, church, grist mill, train station, general store, barber shop, blacksmith and more, behind the main building on Silver Lake. Our MISSION is to collect, restore, preserve, utilize, publish, exhibit, and interpret the history and technology of Delaware and the Delmarva Peninsula's farm life and culture and to offer public education programs and services related to aspects of the same.
Specialties
For the child who believes milk comes from the grocery store instead of a cow, for the woman who remembers using a cornsheller on her grandmother's farm, the family who takes twentieth century technological advances and the farmer for granted, the Delaware Agricultural Museum and Village offers a memorable and educational experience. By preserving the quickly fading agricultural heritage of Delaware and the Delmarva Peninsula, the Museum stands as an important legacy for future generations.