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The museum complex
consists of six separate buildings: Union (Royal) Bank (1906), Anglican
Church (1914), Vehicle Display Building (1999), Blacksmith Shop (1927),
new Display Building (2006), and the Menota country school (1896-1952).
The bank and church buildings contain pioneer household
and farm artifacts, a clothing display, two Simplex “silent movie”
projectors, military clothing and picture display, photograph
collection, mounted whooping crane (1903), a hand-powered table saw, a
ledger (1864) from a Great Lakes schooner “Thornton”, cameras, and
various radios and phonographs. The vehicle display building contains
vintage cars, trucks, and tractors; a 1913 Case steam engine; three
former fire-fighting vehicles (horse-drawn wagon, two trucks); farm
implements; WWII “Weasel” snow track machine.
The restored Amos Blacksmith Shop, operated from 1899
to 1960, contains blacksmithing tools as well as horse-drawn vehicles
and other related artifacts. The new display building, a renovated
Paterson elevator coal shed contains various displays: general store;
sports history; medical articles; hand-loom, knitting and sewing
machines; grain cleaning and testing items. The Menota School building
will be moved here in 2009 and will contain all our school-related
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Blacksmith Workshop
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Theatre Projectors
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