August 16, 2016
The Axe Whisperer will be featured at the air-conditioned museum, located at the top of Main Street in the heart of the Ag Progress Days event, at 4 p.m. on Tuesday to share tales of early Pennsylvania woodsmen, as told to him by the historic axes in his collection. He will tell Join us to hear stories about the work of early logging and timber.
August 16, 2016
Wheat-threshing demonstrations on a Champion threshing machine outside the museum will bring the history of early small grains harvest to life at 11 a.m. and 2 p.m. on Tuesday, Aug. 16, at 1:30 p.m. and 6 p.m. on Wednesday, Aug. 17, and at 11 a.m. on Thursday, Aug. 18. The demonstrations will show how work on the farm was done using muscle and animal power.
August 16, 2016
"The Silent Auction is our single biggest fundraiser, helping to support programming and exhibits that serve museum visitors," said Graef. "Funds raised in the 2016 Silent Auction have been earmarked for enhancing interactive exhibits and displays that connect our agricultural past to the present day. Auction donations are accepted through the Monday before Ag Progress Days. Please be generous with your auction donations and bids. Take home a little bit of history!"
August 15, 2016
Saturday, August 23, 2016 at 8:30 am Step back in time with a visit to Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, considered by many to be the “best kept secret in Pennsylvania.” We'll enjoy a behind the scenes visit, wagon ride and tavern lunch as we spend the day immersed in one of the largest living history sites in Pennsylvania.
August 5, 2016
Annual Silent Auction Tuesday and Wednesday (til 3pm) inside the museum. Take home a little history. Place your bids early and often—this is the single biggest fund raiser for the museum! Proceeds will support building more interactive museum exhibits. Champion Threshing Demo Tuesday 11am & 2pm, Wednesday 11am & 6pm, Thursday 11am at the “top of Main Street”. Axe Whisperer Tuesday 4pm inside the museum. Name that COW! Help us name our newest volunteer – a fiberglass milking cow. She’ll be pastured with the USDA-Ag Research Service during APD in booth CEA14 near the Harrington Building and Corn Maze. (After APD she’ll rejoin us in the museum. Plan to join us when we’ll announce her chosen name at our Ice Cream Social Sunday November 6.) Centre County Historical Society shares “Everyday Objects” Penn State University Press features their newest release Wood Hicks and Bark Peelers—A Visual History of Pennsylvania’s Railroad Lumbering Communities; The Photographic Legacy of William T. Clarke, by Ronald E. Ostman and Harry Littell with an Introduction by Linda A. Ries (See Monday October 10th for related lecture at the museum this Fall!) Throughout the museum you’ll see new exhibits and displays that share some of the history of the agricultural equipment and research exhibited all over the APD grounds this week! We’re open til 8pm on Wednesday so you can enjoy amazing fried mushrooms, superb ham & bean soup, and fabulous milk shakes for a perfect APD dinner out with the family!
August 3, 2016
Wednesday, August 17, 2016 9-10am Meet the volunteers, donors, and supporters who help make the work of the Pasto Agricultural Museum and Ag Progress Days possible. Oh, and be sure to put in a bid on Silent Auction items while you enjoy a sweet morsel and your morning coffee or tea.
June 7, 2016
June 7, 2016 Light refreshments from 11:30am, and a brief meeting from 12:15pm to 1pm Join us to review what we have accomplished, see what we have planned, be a part of our future.
May 21, 2016
Saturday May 21, 9am-3pm -- in cooperation with the Centre County Master Gardener Garden Fair and Plant Sale. The event is free and all our welcome. Pasto Agricultural Museum Spring Festival FEATURES the FOOD, FEED, FIBER, FUEL, and FERTILIZER of AGRICULTURAL SCIENCE! Details about the Penn State Centre County Master Gardeners Plant Sale and Garden Fair found here... https://extension.psu.edu/programs/master-gardener/counties/centre/plant-sale
May 1, 2016
May 21, 2016 at 9am-3pm The Museum will feature five key aspects of AGRICULTURE: FOOD, FUEL, FEED, FIBER, and FERTILIZER. Visit us for hands on engaging activities for the WHOLE FAMILY. In cooperation with the Annual Centre County Master Gardener Garden Fair and Plant Sale -- the premier home gardening event in Centre County and the surrounding region.
April 23, 2016
Stop in or spend the afternoon. See new exhibits and displays. Hands-on activities will focus on life and work of the 19th century. We'll be churning butter, making rope, peeling apples, and more. The historic artifacts in the museum represent the tools and technology that made the effort on the farm easier and more efficient, and are the precursor to the technology we have today!
April 23, 2016
Step back in time with a visit to Landis Valley Village & Farm Museum, considered by many to be the “best kept secret in Pennsylvania.” This authentic crossroads village includes historic buildings with costumed guide interpretation, a vast collection of historic agricultural equipment, and ongoing farming based on 1700's and 1800's practices and traditions, using historic breeds of animals and crops authentic to the period. Museum curators will provide a behind the scenes tour of the collection. For lunch we will enjoy a unique dining experience in one of the site’s historic buildings, the Victorian 1856 Landis Valley House Hotel and Tavern.
April 1, 2016
Sunday, April 17, 2016 at 1-4 pm. Stop in or spend the afternoon. See new exhibits and displays. Hands-on activities will focus on life and work of the 19th century. We'll be churning butter, making rope, peeling apples, and more.
January 9, 2016
See the Pasto Agricultural Museum at Farm Show 2016 in Harrisburg January 9-16 where we'll help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Farm Show with a tribute to the early days of farming. There will SO MUCH history all over the Farm Show Complex. This year is a MUST SEE event! At Farm Show, we’ll have presentations at 1pm Sunday 1/10 to Thursday 1/14 at the College of Agricultural Sciences booth (near McClay Street entrance) about the successful partnership between the college, industry and Pennsylvania's farmers that continues thru today! Pouring over historic documents and photos, we’ll follow the 1862 trail of a reaper-binder from Cyrus McCormick himself to Evan Pugh, the first president of the institution.
January 9, 2016
See the Pasto Agricultural Museum at Farm Show 2016 in Harrisburg January 9-16 where we'll help celebrate the 100th anniversary of Farm Show with a tribute to the early days of farming. There will SO MUCH history all over the Farm Show Complex. This year is a MUST SEE event! At Farm Show, we’ll have presentations at 1pm Sunday 1/10 to Thursday 1/14 at the College of Agricultural Sciences booth (near McClay Street entrance) about the successful partnership between the college, industry and Pennsylvania's farmers that continues thru today! Pouring over historic documents and photos, we’ll follow the 1862 trail of a reaper-binder from Cyrus McCormick himself to Evan Pugh, the first president of the institution.
November 22, 2015
Hey! There’s Science in my Ice Cream! Join us as we celebrate the close of a fabulous Fall season with our annual Ice Cream Social. Sunday November 22 from 1pm at the Pasto Agricultural Museum. We’ll be making and tasting ice cream. Visitors enjoy hands-on activities and demonstrations that connect the history and science of our agricultural past to the present day. We’ll be making music, too. Ice Cream, music, friends! Join us!
November 1, 2015
This Sunday November 1, 1-4pm we feature "Three Sites for Three Sisters" (No, its not about having bedrooms for disagreeable teenagers.) We're looking at plantings of corn, beans, and squash that were planted in the Master Gardener Demonstration Gardens, in the Arboretum at Penn State, and in our own Kitchen Garden. Come see what we've harvested, and what we've learned. Engaging activities (grind corn, weigh the pumpkin, name a gourd...) and hands on take-home projects (including corn husk dolls) for the whole family. See you all this Sunday!
October 11, 2015
Arriving in 1859 to take up his new duties, Dr Evan Pugh brought with him plant specimens he had collected during a several months' visit to the Heidelberg area of Germany in 1856 and also much of the herbarium of Professor G.W. Bischoff of Heidelberg. It is clear that Pugh wanted the new college to become an important center for agricultural research and thought a herbarium was an essential asset for such research,” states former volunteer curator of the Herbarium, Dr. Alfred Traverse in his 2013 article about the PAC Herbarium collection. This Sunday afternoon, Oct 11 from 1-4pm, current curator of the Herbarium, Sarah Chamberlain will be on hand to share these precious and little seen specimens. Hands on activities will further engage visitors as we preserve plants by making hammered prints with fresh specimen. And the Penn State Centre County Master Gardeners will be on hand to share what should be going on in the garden as you, and your plants get ready for winter.
October 4, 2015
Live demonstrations of spinning and weaving all afternoon. Passionate craftspeople from local guilds engage visitors with hands on demonstrations of fiber arts.
September 27, 2015
Penn State's Woodsman Team "the PSU Lumber Jacks & Jills" will perform at 2pm. The team sends men's and combined men's and women's teams to compete in New York, West Virginia, Ontario, and Pennsylvania in such events as: Axe Throw, Chain Saw, Pole Climb, Single Buck Saw, Super Swede Saw, Water Boil, Bolt Split, Vertical Chop, Underhand Chop, Cross Cut, Swede Saw, Log Roll, and Pulp Toss. At 3pm join us to hear the Ax's story of hardened steel and hard work. The Ax Whisperer interprets what he hears in the twist of a handle, a dulled edge, a nick or dent--each tell a part of the subtle story of how these most important tools were used and who might have used them.
September 20, 2015
UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- The second in a series of fall open houses at Penn State's Pasto Agricultural Museum Sept. 20 will focus on food preservation.
September 13, 2015
With the theme, "Invention and Technology and Simple Machines," the Sept. 13 open house will include hands-on displays so visitors can explore the mechanical advantage of pulleys, gears and levers.
August 18, 2015
The Axe Whisperer will be featured at the air-conditioned museum, located at the top of Main Street in the heart of the Ag Progress Days event, at 4 p.m. on Tuesday to share tales of early Pennsylvania woodsmen, as told to him by the historic axes in his collection. He will tell Join us to hear stories about the work of early logging and timber.
August 18, 2015
The annual Silent Auction is the single biggest fundraiser for the museum. Last year it generated more than $9,000, which was spent on refurbishing Dairy, Poultry, and Butchering exhibits. Proceeds from this year's Silent Auction have been earmarked to create a "Bussing Fund" that reimburses transportation costs for school field trips to the museum.
August 18, 2015
The Valley Smithey Ironworks, which produces contemporary works as well as historical reproductions that are of museum quality, will be on hand to demonstrate how iron work used to be done. Company founder and blacksmith Mike Reinard has worked with Colonial Williamsburg and Landis Valley Village and Farm Museum, recreating historic pieces of ironwork.
June 9, 2015
This event is one small way we can thank the many volunteers and supporters of the museum that make our work possible – our work of connecting the science and history of our agricultural past to the present day for over 10,000 visitors each year. This annual celebration has become a tradition, providing an opportunity for us to share the work and accomplishments of the museum in the past year and our plans for the future.
May 16, 2015
Hosted at the Pasto Museum.
April 25, 2015
Weather permitting, we hope to schedule a work-morning on Saturday 4/25. Carol will share the planting sketch for the culinary herb bed. Rita has been researching varieties of corn, beans and squash for our “Three Sisters” garden (even found mention of a forgotten fourth sister!).
April 19, 2015
Over the winter, we are busy planning exhibits and improving displays. Follow the progress in “Dairy, Poultry, and Butchering” exhibits on Facebook! The public’s first opportunity to see our winter’s work is Blue White Weekend Open House, Sunday April 18, 1-4pm.
April 19, 2015
Inside the museum, the focus will be on the Oregon Trail and what emigrants would have taken with them for their 2,200-mile journey west, from the Missouri Valley to California and Oregon in the mid-1800s. Outside the museum, an 1840s kitchen garden is taking shape. It will eventually contain herbs, fruits and vegetables that would have been found in kitchen gardens in the region; with culinary, medicinal and fiber coloring (dying) plants represented.
April 16, 2015
We’ll be meeting this Thursday 4/16 at 6pm to map out our work days as the weather warms.
Pasto Agricultural Museum
- Email PastoAgMuseum@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1383
Pasto Agricultural Museum
- Email PastoAgMuseum@psu.edu
- Office 814-863-1383
