20
May
2015
Opa's tractor barn museum in West Amana will open for their 15th season on Tuesday, May 26, 2015 from 10 to 4. Barn will continue to be open throughout the summer onTuesdays through Saturday until end of September. Entrance fee is a "free will" donation Exhibits include vintage farm machinery and tractors used in the Seven villages of the Amana Colonies after 1932. You will see mostly Minneapolis- Moline tractors and equipment that were sold in Village of Homestead beginning in 1937. Other makes of tractors and equipment can be viewed with the oldest, a 1939 Minneapolis-Moline "U" to the newest, a 1952 Minneapolis-Moline "U".
Visitors can view a handcrafted 1/12 scale display of a 1920 farm made by MM collector Don Peterson. Visitors can play with a giant "bowling ball run" built between two barn supports and check out other memorabilia.
This1883 bank barn was the "horse barn" for West Amana. It is the only barn with chestnut beams shipped from Ebenezer, New York where the Amana ancestors first lived in the US. The architecture, mortise and tendon construction of this barn is as interesting as the tractors, equipment, and displays.
