The Historic Tool Room takes visitors back to the days of America’s colonization with a variety of early tools and inventions. See candle molds and holders along with lanterns from the late 1700’s. Notice the mechanization behind an apple peeler and a fruit juicer from the 1880’s. View the forging station once commonly found on farms throughout the land used to craft ironware of all sorts.

Step into the museum’s newest exhibit room to see historic grain harvesting tools such as the cradle scythe, a wooden flail, a variety of pitch forks and hay knives. View plows collected from Northern Europe, the Middle East, North Africa, and America’s Hudson River Valley.

View the museum’s collection from Tractor Test Chief Engineer, Lester Larsen. This collection consists of historic tractor test equipment as well as key tractors that illustrate the developments in agricultural mechanization over the decades. Examine the original dynamometer used to test tractors in 1920.

During weekdays, take a short walk to the current Nebraska Tractor Test Laboratory. Observe tractors being tested either outside on the tractor test track or inside where tests are run on the power-take-off and hydraulic systems of modern day tractors.