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Discover Early NY Rural Life

Experience what rural life was like in the wake of the American Revolution. The Farmers' Museum is one of the oldest rural life museums in the country. Located in Cooperstown, The Farmers' Museum provides visitors with a unique opportunity to experience 19th-century rural and village life firsthand through demonstrations and interpretive exhibits. Founded in 1943, it comprises 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, The museum preserves important examples of upstate New York architecture, early agricultural tools and equipment, and heritage livestock. Its collection of more than 23,000 items encompasses significant historic objects ranging from butter molds to carriages, hand planes to plows.

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