Living History Farms

Living History Farms is a museum in Urbandale, IA. Cost: under $25. General admission season runs April 30 through October 31; programs by reservation the rest of the year.

11121 Hickman Rd · Urbandale, IA

Why you should go…

This 500-acre open-air museum covers 300 years of Midwestern farming through working sites. You visit a 1700 Ioway farm growing corn, beans and squash, an 1850 pioneer farm, and a 1900 farm where Percheron draft horses power the machinery. The 1876 Town of Walnut Hill has shops, homes, a schoolhouse and a Victorian residence. Interpreters in period clothing do the daily work and talk with you about it, and a tractor cart carries you out to the farms.

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