Lake View Historical Museum

A small local history museum in Lake View, Iowa, with bird displays, a model train layout, and historic buildings on its grounds.

114 Crescent Park Drive, Lake View, Iowa · Lake View, IA

About Lake View Historical Museum

Opened in 1996, this museum in Lake View presents the town's past across two floors of exhibits. Visitors can see a collection of more than one hundred stuffed and mounted bird species, along with a miniature train display showing Lake View, Black Hawk Lake, and Danbury. The grounds include an early one-room log cabin, restored and open during museum hours, and a one-eighth scale replica of a schoolhouse that visitors can also enter.

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