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The Grout Museum of History and Science
Historical - 50,500 items, consisting of early pioneer artifacts, tools, housewares, furniture, farm equipment, clothing, quilts, and American Indian artifacts. Manufacturing - some of the fine examples include products produced here locally, gasoline engines, a Herrick refrigerator, a 1910 Maytag-Mason auto, a 1904 Dart truck, a Litchfield spreader, and a Galloway cream separator Science - 3,200 animal specimens, 2,800 geological and 1,300 anthropology artifacts. Using their considerable skill the museum staff have created five full-scale dioramas from the collections on the museum's lower level. Here visitors can see life as it really was in a log cabin, tool shed, blacksmith shop, carpenter shop, and general store. The main level houses the collections for geology in Iowa, plants, animal life, and the area's first inhabitants. Additionally, the museum also offers traveling and ever changing exhibits available from other notable museums.
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