Closed Sat. and Sun. Admission is free. Exhibits are in the main museum and breezeway leading to the building housing primarily horse-drawn farm equipment. There are about 25 display areas including the Younger Brothers Capture and a Drug Store area. The Ashippun Post Office, the first Post Office in Watonwan County, a log cabin completely restored and furnished as it was a hundred years ago, is housed in the farm equipment building.
Group tours are available by prior arrangement.
It is a complete 1886 plat book plus 46 Watonwan historical pictures and histories of the county, each township, past and present villages and towns. Briefly written Facts, 1895. A St. James and Watonwan history with 34 pages and 42 pictures. A Souvenir of St. James, 1901. A 56 page booklet with county, city, school, church and fire department histories plus business and professional men and women biographies plus many pictures.