Landis Valley Museum

Landis Valley Museum

Landis Valley Museum is a nationally significant living history museum in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, USA. It collects, conserves, exhibits, and interprets Pennsylvania German material, culture, history and heritage from 1740 through 1940.

As living history, this museum is particularly interesting, because of the many inventions developed in the Lancaster area. For instance, because this was the birthplace of the Conestoga Wagon (and the stogie cigar), visitors see out how wagons were made, including the critical process of making spoked wheels). Because this is where the Pennsylvania Longrifle (aka Kentucky Longrifle) originated, visitors see how gunsmiths of the 1700s manufactured rifle barrels.

The features of the museum include:

References

* [http://www.landisvalleymuseum.org/ Official website]


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